Law and Mental Health: Evaluating and Framing Risk in Forensic Evaluations of Legally Involved Youth

Описание: Law and Mental Health: Evaluating and Framing Risk in Forensic Evaluations of Legally Involved Youth: Careful Considerations of Anti-Blackness,
Trauma, and Mitigating Further Harm - Jeanne McPhee, Ph.D.

Jeanne McPhee, PhD, is a licensed psychologist and a National Institute of Mental Health postdoctoral scholar in the Juvenile inJustice Behavioral Health lab at UCSF. She has a PhD in Clinical Psychology from Drexel University with a focus in forensic psychology. Her research focuses on promoting positive outcomes for legally involved youth by adapting and implementing evidence-based assessment and treatment and policies for youth, their families and communities, and within the larger systems that they come into contact with, such as the legal system.

Learning Objectives:

1. Describe how current psychological practices (in risk assessment) maintain historic harm.
2. Explain the role the lack of trauma-informed forensic practice harms Black legally involved youth.
3. List 6 ways to improve forensic evaluation and report-writing practices that mitigate and reduce harm for Black youth.

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