Law and Mental Health: Developmental Issues in Juvenile Forensic Assessment

Описание: Law and Mental Health: Developmental Issues in Juvenile Forensic Assessment -Debra H. Baeder, Ph.D., ABPP

Dr. Debra Baeder is board certified in forensic psychology by the American Board of Professional Psychology. She is the Chief Forensic Psychologist for the State Forensic Service in Maine and the Clinical Director of the Office of Behavioral Health for the Department of Health and Human Services. Her responsibilities are the evaluations of adult defendants on issues of competence and criminal responsibility, presentence evaluations, and evaluations of insanity acquittees who have petitioned the Court. She also coordinates the juvenile evaluation program for
the State Forensic Service. In that capacity, she conducts pre-adjudicatory, pre-dispositional, adjudicative competence, and bindover evaluations. She consults with and trains other examiners contracted with the State Forensic Service and trains psychiatric residents at the Maine Medical Center. She also manages the statewide Intensive Case Management Program and consults with Mental Health Court dockets, on policy and legislative issues, and on complex cases intersecting mental health and criminal justice. Dr. Baeder also provides workshops on juvenile forensic topics in Maine and nationally.

Learning Objectives:

1. Assess how development affects adolescent cognition, clinical conditions, risk, and treatment amenability.
2. Assess how research in adolescent development can be used most appropriately in Court and with respect to social
policy.
3. Assess how age, gender, culture, and ethnicity intersect with development and describe their importance in
forming opinions in juvenile forensic evaluations.

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