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LIVE: IDENTIFYING AND AVOIDING “JUNK SCIENCE” IN FORENSIC PSYCHOLOGICAL
ASSESSMENTS
July 18, 2024 | 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM Pacific
Register | $100 USD Purchase for a Group
Presented By Tess M.S Neal, PhD
JULY 18, 2024
9:00 AM - 10:00 AM PACIFIC
1 HOUR | 1 CE
$125 REGISTRATION | $100 EARLY REGISTRATION (THROUGH JULY 10) | LIVE VIRTUAL
TRAINING VIA ZOOM
Tess M.S Neal, PhD presents a live virtual professional training program on
Identifying and Avoiding “Junk Science” in Forensic Psychological Assessments.
This training covers the concept of “junk science” and how justice systems have
tried to cope with this problem of separating pseudoscientific evidence from
sound evidence, screening the former out, and allowing the latter in via
evidence admissibility rules. Dr. Neal will take a close look at why this task
is so challenging for courts and how these issues apply to forensic mental
health evidence in particular. Specifically, this training will cover in detail
the results of a two-part investigation of psychological assessments by
psychologists in legal contexts.
The first part involves a systematic review of the 364 psychological assessment
tools psychologists report having used in legal cases across 22 surveys of
experienced forensic mental health practitioners, focusing on legal standards
and scientific and psychometric theory. Results from the first part reveal wide
variation in quality.
The second part is a legal analysis of admissibility challenges with regard to
psychological assessments. Results from the second part show that courts are not
well-calibration this variation in quality, and courts often fail to exercise
the scrutiny required by law.
There will be a discussion on why and how this problem is not unique to mental
health evidence and what courts are doing to try to address this problem. For
instance, the US Federal Rules of Evidence guiding the admission of expert
testimony just changed on December 1, 2023. This training will discuss this
change and what it means for forensic mental health experts and will end with
coverage of several free high-quality resources available to mental health
experts to improve the quality of forensic assessment practice.
This training can help advance a person's career by knowing more about how to be
better at assessment, how to evaluate the quality of other people's assessments,
and overall can improve the quality of their work and the field. This program is
uniquely valuable because this is the only work being done on this topic, and
the training is one of a kind. This training is intended for all professionals
in any stage of their career; any specialty area, and any environment involving
law and mental health.
TRAINING OUTLINE:
* Introduction to the use of mental health assessments in legal settings with
case examples
* Overview of forensic psychology within the field of psychology
* Discussion on expert gatekeeping and courts' efforts to filter out
pseudoscience
* Importance of identifying solid science/expert evidence for courts and
justice systems
* Detailed analysis of a high-profile project on the validity and admissibility
of forensic psychological assessments in the US
* Evidence of courts allowing in evidence regardless of quality
* A broader issue of quality variation in mental health evidence not unique to
the US
* Actions by courts and societies to address the issue of evidence quality
* Recent change to US evidence law effective Dec 1, 2023, on admissibility of
expert evidence
* Conclusion with resources for improving the quality of psych assessment
evidence
INTENDED AUDIENCE
This live program is intended for mental health and other allied professionals.
EXPERIENCE LEVEL
This live program is appropriate for beginner, intermediate, and advanced level
clinicians.
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PRESENTED BY
TESS M.S NEAL, PHD
Tess M.S. Neal, PhD is an associate professor of psychology and serves as a
Dean’s Professor at Iowa State University. Before moving to Iowa in Fall 2023,
she was tenured at Arizona State University, where she was the founding director
of the Future of Forensic Science Initiative. She is a scientist...
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UPON COMPLETION OF THIS PROGRAM YOU WILL BE ABLE TO:
Describe the criteria the law uses to identify junk science by expert witnesses
Describe the average scientific validity of assessment tools used by
psychologists as evidence in court
Describe how calibrated courts are to the scientific validity of psychological
assessment tools offered in expert evidence
Describe free high-quality resources for improving forensic psychological
assessment practice
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