Family law ADR qualification course hours
0.00 - Mediation
0.00 - Arbitration
0.00 - Parenting Coordinator
0.00 - Family Violence
Description
"Perspectives on Violence and Risk Management"
Overall Learning Objectives:
1. To identify treatment goals in forensic patients, and to track and record progress.
2. To identify the legal and ethical aspects of decisions around requests for information about
forensic patients.
3. To examine models of risk management in other jurisdictions and consider their applicability to BC.
Morning session: Balancing Public Safety with Patient Liberty
09.00 - 09.30 Dr. Sophie Anhoury – UK systems and risk management issues in the system
20-25min with 5-10min Q/A
Learning Objectives:
1. Learn forensic system alternative to Canadian system
2. Appraise the benefits and shortcomings of the UK system of forensic risk management
09.30 - 10.00 Dr. Mark Bodnarchuk – Psychologist Treatment of Youth Offenders: Anger
Management; 20-25min with 5-10min Q/A
Learning Objectives:
1. The definition of violence, and the difference between reactive and instrumental violence.
2. The history of the psychological treatment of youth violence, and the empirical efficacy of this treatment.
3. The current approaches to psychological treatment of youth violence are presented and evaluated.
4. The approach used with Youth Forensic Psychiatric Services is reviewed and discussed.
10:00 – 10:30 Dr. Johann Brink – Use of SPJ’s in Risk Management - 20-25min with 5-10min Q/A
Learning Objectives:
1. Recognize the differences between unstructured, structured actuarial, and structured professional judgement assessment measures.
2. Appraise the benefits and challenges of structured professional judgement measures in risk assessment.
3. Discuss strategies for effective use of structured professional judgement approaches in hospital and community-based risk assessment.
10.30 – 11.00 Tea / Coffee Break
11.00- 12.00 Panel Presenters: 5-10min each (x6) plus Q/A:
Learning Objectives:
1. Assessing the gaps and pitfalls of current applications of forensic risk management in the community
2. Brainstorming potential avenues for improvement of risk assessment and management of forensic patients in the community, through the prism of legal and psychiatric approaches
3. Soliciting opinions of different stakeholders partaking in risk management of offender/patients in the community
• Joanne Nefs RB Alternate Chair- BC Review Board & Risk Management
• Dr. Kulwant Riar - Youth Risk Management & limitations of actuarial testing
• Clem Poquiz – Administrative Aspects of Risk Management from a clinic administrator
• Dr. Tyler Oswald – Forensic Psychiatric Services
• Katie Steinmann - Local Manager in Community Corrections
12.00 - 13.00 Lunch
Afternoon session: Issues Related to the Management of Violence and Information Sharing
13.00 - 13.35 Sergeant Tyler Radons, Mental Health Unit-Car 87/88 and ACT/AOT, VPD
“VPD Information Sharing”
30min + 5-10min Q+A
Learning Objectives:
1. Learning the non-psychiatric community approaches to information sharing and assessing systems needs
13.35 – 14.15 Sergeant Gock, VPD - 30min + 5-10min Q+A
Learning Objectives:
1. Introduce Project LINK with focus on violence prevention
2. Recognize what challenges different stakeholders may face with correctional services
3. Appraise challenges arising from interactions between the stakeholders withing Project Link framework
14.15 - 14.45 Tea / Coffee Break
14.45 – 15.45 William S. Clark, Partner - Harper Grey LLP
40-45min + 15-20min Q+A
Learning Objectives:
1. Discuss clinical legal implications of information sharing in complex treatment and assessment environments