Tuesday May 25, 2010

Time

Session #

Title

Credits

9:15 am – 10:15 am

Keynote

Preventing and reducing risk of violent aggressive and antisocial behaviour in children and pre-teens

1 CE

 

 

 

 

10:45 am – 12:00 pm

1.1

An International Perspective on Educational Strategies and Training in Forensic Mental Health: Needs, methods, problems, solutions and plans

1.25 CEs

1.2

From Doing Time to Doing Research: A Community-Based Participatory Study of Community Re-Integration among Formerly Incarcerated Women

1.3

Forensic Patients with Special Needs

 

 

 

 

1:15 pm – 2:30 pm

P1

Mental Health Courts – Part 1

1.25 CEs

2.5

The Comprehensive Assessment of Psychopathic Personality: Progress on a new development

 

 

 

 

3:00 pm – 4:00 pm

P2

Against All Odds: Recovery of High Risk Clients

1 CE

 

 

 

 

4:00 pm – 5:15 pm

P3

Mental Health Courts – Part 2

1.25 CEs

3.2

Expert Testimony by Psychologists: Past Lessons and Future Suggestions

3.3

Forensic Intellectual Disability: Innovations in Treatment Approaches

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Wednesday May 26, 2010

Time

Session #

Title

Credits

9:00 am – 10:00 am

Keynote

Mental Health Problems And Violence Against Marital And Dating Partners Across The Life Span And In 32 Nations

1 CE

 

 

 

 

10:45 am – 12:00 pm

4.1

Milestones to Recovery: A strategy for patient care in medium secure forensic psychiatric services

1.25 CEs

4.2

The road to collaboration – the never ending story

4.4

Pathways through forensic mental health services in different countries

 

 

 

 

1:15 pm – 2:30 pm

5.1

Implementing risk assessment and management in forensic mental health services (Part 1)

1.25 CEs

5.4

Reducing Impulsive Aggression: A Comprehensive Cognitive Rehabilitation Programme in a High Secure Hospital

5.5

Where the Wild Things Are

 

 

 

 

4:00 pm – 5:15 pm

6.1

Implementing risk assessment and management in forensic mental health services (Part 2)

1.25 CEs

6.3

Clinical characteristics and violent behaviour in Swedish offender and non-offender groups

6.4

National Implementation of Computerized Mental Health Intake Screening within the Correctional Service of Canada

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Thursday May 27, 2010

Time

Session #

Title

Credits

9:30 am – 10:45 am

7.1

START: An Update on Research, Implementation Evaluations, and Future Directions

1.25 CEs

7.3

Part 1: In the right place at the right time: Conceptual and practical considerations about long-term forensic psychiatric care

7.4

Competencies for Professionals Who Work with Substance Abuse Issues

 

 

 

 

11:15 am – 12:30 pm

8.1

Developments in providing arson treatment for women at The National High Secure Healthcare Service for Women

1.25 CEs

8.2

Emerging limitation in the HCR-20 and its use in managing violence risk?

8.4

Part 2: Dead end or crossway? Research projects in long-term forensic psychiatric care

 

 

 

 

1:45 pm – 3:00 pm

9.1

Best Practices in the Treatment & Reintegration of Mentally Disordered Offenders within the Correctional Services Canada Ontario Region

1.25 CEs

9.2

Using the Resident Assessment Instrument - Mental Health (RAI-MH) in Forensic Inpatient Settings

9.4

Recovery focused low secure mental health care

 

 

 

 

3:30 pm – 4:30 pm

Keynote

Changing developmental trajectories in troubled adolescents: Obstacles and new approaches for intervention

1 CE

 

 

 

 


CE Session: Keynote Presentation #1

Session Title: Preventing and Reducing Risk of Violent Aggression and Antisocial Behaviour in Children and Pre-teens

Presenter(s): Marlene Moretti

Credit Hours: 1 CE

Date/Time: Tuesday, May 25, 2010            9:15 – 10:15 am

Learning Objectives: Upon completion of this program, you should be able to:

(1)  Describe research on developmental paths to aggressive and antisocial behavior in children;

(2)  Describe how risk and protective factors influence the development of emotional and behavioral regulatory capacity and vulnerability for mental health problems;

(3)  Describe prevention and risk reduction programs; and

(4)  Describe new strategies that focus on building healthy relationships.


CE Session: 1.1

Session Title: An International Perspective on Educational Strategies and Training in Forensic Mental Health: Needs, methods, problems, solutions and plans

Presenter(s): Lindsay Thomson, Sabine Eucker, Natalie Gabora-Roth, Julian Eve, Harry Kennedy

Credit Hours: 1.25 CEs

Date/Time: Tuesday, May 25, 2010            10:45 am – 12:00 pm

Learning Objectives: Upon completion of this program, you should be able to:

(1) Describe international differences with respect to educational needs, methods, problems and plans;

(2) Describe how to establish a multidisciplinary teaching program in forensic mental health and correctional settings; and

(3) Describe methods of delivery of a multidisciplinary teaching program in forensic mental health and how to measure outcomes.

 

CE Session: 1.2

Session Title: From Doing Time to Doing Research: A Community-Based Participatory Study of Community Re-Integration among Formerly Incarcerated Women

Presenter(s): Sarah Desmarais, Patti Janssen, Ruth Martin, Kelly Murphy, Mo Korchinski, Alison Granger-Brown, Amber Christie, Christina Yablonski, Jane Buxton, Ann Macaulay, Lara-Lisa Condello, Marla Buchanan, Amanda Elliott

Credit Hours: 1.25 CEs

Date/Time: Tuesday, May 25, 2010            10:45 am – 12:00 pm

Learning Objectives: Upon completion of this program, you should be able to:

(1) Describe the theory, practice, and value of community-based participatory research;

(2) Describe the Doing Time project, research team, and participants; and

(3) Identify factors related to community re-integration among women released from correctional facilities.



CE Session: 1.3

Session Title: Forensic Patients with Special Needs

Presenter(s): Rüdiger Müller-Isberner, Ruth Rohdich, Petra Bauer, Claudia Knörrnschild, Lutz Gretenkord, Silke Kielisch, Manjit Gahir

Credit Hours: 1.25 CEs

Date/Time: Tuesday, May 25, 2010            10:45 am – 12:00 pm

Learning Objectives: Upon completion of this program, you should be able to:

(1) Describe the special treatment needs of female forensic patients;

(2) Describe the special treatment needs of elderly forensic patients; and

(3) Describe the special treatment needs of hearing impaired and deaf forensic patients.


CE Session: P1

Session Title: A Multi-Site Prospective Study on Mental Health Courts

Presenter(s): Lisa Callahan, Henry Steadman, Pamela Robbins, John Monahan

Credit Hours: 1.25 CEs

Date/Time: Tuesday, May 25, 2010            1:15 – 2:30 pm

Learning Objectives: Upon completion of this program, you should be able to:

(1) Describe how mental health courts work in practice;

(2) Describe the impact of mental health courts on public safety; and

(3) Describe the ways in which treatment affects mental health court outcomes.


CE Session: 2.5

Session Title: The Comprehensive Assessment of Psychopathic Personality: Progress on a new development

Presenter(s): Caroline Logan, David Cooke, Stephen Hart, Christine Michie

Credit Hours: 1.25 CEs

Date/Time: Tuesday, May 25, 2010            1:15 – 2:30 pm

Learning Objectives: Upon completion of this program, you should be able to:

(1) Explain how to evaluate the construct of psychopathy from a fresh perspective;

(2) Describe the CAPP model – what it is, how it came into being, and why it matters; and

(3) Describe how to measure the CAPP model in practice and how to use the information gained in formulation.


CE Session: P2

Session Title: Against All Odds: Recovery of High Risk Clients

Presenter(s): Christopher Webster, Joel Dvoskin, Michael Doyle

Credit Hours: 1 CE

Date/Time: Tuesday, May 25, 2010            3:00 – 4:00 pm

Learning Objectives: Upon completion of this program, you should be able to:

(1) Describe issues related to why forensic patients refrain from future violence;

(2) Describe the importance of the "Against all odds" paper as a stimulus to further case-study type research; and

(3) Describe temporal and situational nature of risk.


CE Session: P3

Session Title: The Mental Health Court Judge’s Role in Reducing Recidivism

Presenter(s): Virginia Aldige Hiday

Credit Hours: 1.25 CEs

Date/Time: Tuesday, May 25, 2010            4:00 – 5:15 pm

Learning Objectives: Upon completion of this program, you should be able to:

(1)    Describe the role of the mental health court judge in reducing recidivism;

(2)    describe the importance of coordinated community service in reducing recidivism; and

(3)    describe preliminary data from a study of the Washington, D.C., mental health diversion court.


CE Session: 3.2

Session Title: Expert Testimony by Psychologists: Past Lessons and Future Suggestions

Presenter(s): Barry Cooper, Hugues Hervé, John Yuille

Credit Hours: 1.25 CEs

Date/Time: Tuesday, May 25, 2010            4:00 – 5:15 pm

Learning Objectives: Upon completion of this program, you should be able to:

(1) Describe the role of expert testimony by psychologists;

(2) Describe some of the experiences of previous experts; and

(3) Describe what is meant by ethical and evidence-based testimony.


CE Session: 3.3

Session Title: Forensic Intellectual Disability: Innovations in Treatment Approaches

Presenter(s): Lori Ann Dotson, Anthony Duncan, Martin Neumann, Catrin Morrissey, Susan Johnston

Credit Hours: 1.25 CEs

Date/Time: Tuesday, May 25, 2010            4:00 – 5:15 pm

Learning Objectives: Upon completion of this program, you should be able to:

(1) Describe different care models for intellectual disability;

(2) Describe concrete interventions that can be used for an intellectually disabled population; and

(3) Describe treatment outcome data on these approaches.


CE Session: Keynote Presentation #2

Session Title: Mental Health Problems And Violence Against Marital And Dating Partners Across The Life Span And In 32 Nations

Presenter(s): Murray A. Straus

Credit Hours: 1 CE

Date/Time: Wednesday, May 26, 2010            9:00 – 10:00 am

Learning Objectives: Upon completion of this program, you should be able to:

(1) Describe the prevalence of physical assault on marital and dating partners over the life course, by men and women, and in economically developed and developing nations;

(2) Describe how the rate of partner assault changes over the life course; and

(3) Describe the extent to which mental health problems are a risk factor for partner violence.


CE Session: 4.1

Session Title: Milestones to Recovery: A strategy for patient care in medium secure forensic psychiatric services

Presenter(s): Caroline Logan, Josanne Holloway, Michael Doyle, Andrea Ludlow

Credit Hours: 1.25 CEs

Date/Time: Wednesday, May 26, 2010            10:45 am – 12:00 pm

Learning Objectives: Upon completion of this program, you should be able to:

(1) Describe the issues involved in designing and implementing safe care in medium as opposed to high and low secure settings;

(2) Outline a strategy for organizing care in a medium secure setting; and

(3) Describe relevant implementation and evaluation issues.


CE Session: 4.2

Session Title: The road to collaboration – the never ending story

Presenter(s): Geir Olsen, Bjørn Petter Hanssen, Knut Rypdal, Ingunn Indrebø, Torill Storhaug Fotland, Jan Terje Omdal, Kim Sviland, Lars Gunnar Johannson

Credit Hours: 1.25 CEs

Date/Time: Wednesday, May 26, 2010            10:45 am – 12:00 pm

Learning Objectives: Upon completion of this program, you should be able to:

(1) Describe the development of a training trainers program on forensic units in the western region in Norway;

2. List the challenges involved in implementing and using the SOAS-R instrument on the forensic units in the western region in Norway; and

3. Describe the collaboration involved in implementing a training trainers program for hospital and community health care.


CE Session: 4.4

Session Title: Pathways through forensic mental health services in different countries

Presenter(s): Rüdiger Müller-Isberner, Hanna Edberg, Johann Brink, Mike Harris

Credit Hours: 1.25 CEs

Date/Time: Wednesday, May 26, 2010            10:45 am – 12:00 pm

Learning Objectives: Upon completion of this program, you should be able to:

(1) Describe the strengths and weaknesses of the current structures and procedures in forensic mental health services;

(2) Describe how the structure of a forensic mental health service sets the framework for the risk management procedures that are utilized; and

(3) Describe the various pathways of forensic patients back into the community in different countries and jurisdictions.


CE Session: 5.1

Session Title: Implementing risk assessment and management in forensic mental health services (Part 1)

Presenter(s): Johann Brink, Gopi Krishnan, Quazi Haque, Adrian Cree, Lindsay Thomson, Morag  Slesser, Rudiger Muller-Isberner, Alex Millkey, E. Balduzzi, Brooke Howard, Tonia Nicholls, Sarah Desmarais

Credit Hours: 1.25 CEs

Date/Time: Wednesday, May 26, 2010            1:30 pm – 2:45 pm

Learning Objectives: Upon completion of this program, you should be able to:

(1) Describe the importance of properly implementing risk assessment procedures in Forensic Mental Health Services;

(2) Describe how to adequately organize risk assessment procedures; and

(3) Describe the differences involved in trying to implement state of the art risk assessment procedures across various countries.


CE Session: 5.4

Session Title: Reducing Impulsive Aggression: A Comprehensive Cognitive Rehabilitation Programme in a High Secure Hospital

Presenter(s): Gary Thorpe, Tony Hague, Barry McGee

Credit Hours: 1.25 CEs

Date/Time: Wednesday, May 26, 2010            1:30 pm – 2:45 pm

Learning Objectives: Upon completion of this program, you should be able to:

(1) List the principles of Neuro Cognitive Rehabilitation;

(2) Describe the development of this service within High Secure Care; and

(3) Describe the process of putting theory into practice.


CE Session: 5.5

Session Title: Where the Wild Things Are

Presenter(s): Paul Janke, Erin Van Der Pauw, Lia Schoenroth

Credit Hours: 1.25 CEs

Date/Time: Wednesday, May 26, 2010            1:30 pm – 2:45 pm

Learning Objectives: Upon completion of this program, you should be able to:

(1) Describe some of the challenges in delivering mental health services in a custodial setting;

(2) List the special needs of a youth population; and

(3) Describe the benefits of a Multidisciplinary approach to mental health services.

 

CE Session: 6.1

Session Title: Implementing risk assessment and management in forensic mental health services (Part 2)

Presenter(s): Johann Brink, Gopi Krishnan, Quazi Haque, Adrian Cree, Lindsay Thomson, Morag  Slesser, Rudiger Muller-Isberner, Alex Millkey, E. Balduzzi, Brooke Howard, Tonia Nicholls, Sarah Desmarais

Credit Hours: 1.25 CEs

Date/Time: Wednesday, May 26, 2010            4:00 pm – 5:15 pm

Learning Objectives: Upon completion of this program, you should be able to:

(1) Describe the importance of properly implementing risk assessment procedures in Forensic Mental Health Services;

(2) Describe how to adequately organize risk assessment procedures; and

(3) Describe the differences involved in trying to implement state of the art risk assessment procedures across various countries.

 

CE Session: 6.3

Session Title: Clinical characteristics and violent behaviour in Swedish offender and non-offender groups

Presenter(s): Mats Dernevik, Märta Wallinius, Eva Billstedt, Marielle Nyman, Helena Andreasson

Credit Hours: 1.25 CEs

Date/Time: Wednesday, May 26, 2010            4:00 pm – 5:15 pm

Learning Objectives:            Upon completion of this program, you should be able to:

(1)    Provide an overview of the Swedish care system for mentally disordered and other offenders;

(2)    Describe similarities between psychiatric and other samples (prison and ADHD non-offenders); and

(3)    Describe clinical phenotypes of offenders, regardless of type of service provision.


CE Session: 6.4

Session Title: National Implementation of Computerized Mental Health Intake Screening within the Correctional Service of Canada

Presenter(s): Natalie Gabora-Roth, Lynn Stewart

Credit Hours: 1.25 CEs

Date/Time: Wednesday, May 26, 2010            4:00 pm – 5:15 pm

Learning Objectives: Upon completion of this program, you should be able to:

(1) Describe CSC’s approach to standardized computerized mental health screening and assessment;

(2) Describe how the outcome of mental health screening will vary based on various criteria and norms; and

(3) Describe the clinical, administrative and policy implications of the identification of high rates of mental health problems among offenders.

 

CE Session: 7.1

Session Title: START: An Update on Research, Implementation Evaluations, and Future Directions

Presenter(s): Tonia Nicholls, Quazi Haque, Adrian Cree, Karen Petersen, Johann Brink, Nathalie Gagnon, Catherine Wilson, Sarah Desmarais, Richard Benson, Richard Maggs, Rebecca Craig

Credit Hours: 1.25 CEs

Date/Time: Thursday, May 27, 2010            9:00 am – 10:15 am

Learning Objectives: Upon completion of this program, you should be able to:

(1) Describe the potential value of dynamic risk and strength variables to the assessment and management of adverse events;

(2) Describe the psychometric properties of START; and

(3) describe the ‘downward translation’ of the adult START for use with adolescents.

 

CE Session: 7.3

Session Title: Part 1: In the right place at the right time: Conceptual and practical considerations about long-term forensic psychiatric care

Presenter(s): Iva Embley, Marc J. Schabracq, Rainer Kamara, Rüdiger Müller-Isberner, Ton Verbeet, Peter Braun, Tom Deenen, Gopi Krishnan, Kevin Howells

Credit Hours: 1.25 CEs

Date/Time: Thursday, May 27, 2010            9:00 am – 10:15 am

Learning Objectives: Upon completion of this program, you should be able to:

(1)    Describe conceptual and methodological issues concerning research in the LFPC patient group;

(2)    List the various ways of differentiating care and security; and

(3)    Describe best LFPC practices in several European countries.


CE Session: 7.4

Session Title: Competencies for Professionals Who Work with Substance Abuse Issues

Presenter(s): Rod Olfert, Elva Keip

Credit Hours: 1.25 CEs

Date/Time: Thursday, May 27, 2010            9:00 am – 10:15 am

Learning Objectives: Upon completion of this program, you should be able to:

(1)    Describe how mental health workers can use evidence based knowledge and skills to deal with substance abuse issues;

(2)    Describe the importance of collaboration between mental health and substance abuse experts; and

(3)    Implement a knowledge exchange strategy for those who deal with substance abuse issues.


CE Session: 8.1

Session Title: Developments in providing  arson treatment for women at The National High Secure Healthcare Service for Women

Presenter(s): Phyllis Annesley, Leonie Davison, Christopher Colley

Credit Hours: 1.25 CEs

Date/Time: Thursday, May 27, 2010            10:45 am – 12:00 pm

Learning Objectives: Upon completion of this program, you should be able to:

(1)    describe evidence for the accuracy of the HCR-20 in predicting aggressive behaviour in patients with SMI living in the community,

(2)    describe evidence regarding the C and R scales to assess change, and

(3)    describe evidence regarding the effectiveness of training a community mental health team to use the HCR-20 to manage violence risk.


CE Session: 8.2

Session Title: Emerging limitation in the HCR-20 and its use in managing violence risk?

Presenter(s): Steve Michel, Quazi Haque, Adrian Cree

Credit Hours: 1.25 CEs

Date/Time: Thursday, May 27, 2010            10:45 am – 12:00 pm

Learning Objectives: Upon completion of this program, you should be able to:

(1)    Describe evidence for the accuracy of the HCR-20 in predicting aggressive behaviour in patients with SMI living in the community;

(2)    Describe evidence regarding the C and R scales to assess change; and

(3)    Describe evidence regarding the effectiveness of training a community mental health team to use the HCR-20 to manage violence risk.


CE Session: 8.4

Session Title: Part 2: Dead end or crossway? Research projects in long-term forensic psychiatric care

Presenter(s): Jessica Jamrowski, Erik Bulten, Peter Braun, Fritjof Von Franqué, Ton Verbeet, Ellen Vorstenbosch

Credit Hours: 1.25 CEs

Date/Time: Thursday, May 27, 2010            10:45 am – 12:00 pm

Learning Objectives: Upon completion of this program, you should be able to:

(1)    Describe why differentiation of security and care for LFPC patients is necessary and how this could be managed;

(2)    Describe both staff and patients' perspectives on patients' quality of life in Dutch and German LFPC; and

(3)    Describe the implications of specific nursing-conditions and risk for burnout in LFPC.


CE Session: 9.1

Session Title: Best Practices in the Treatment & Reintegration of Mentally Disordered Offenders within the Correctional Services Canada Ontario Region

Presenter(s): Karin Merkel, Noel Napier- Glover, Cindy Gagnon, Duane Wiafe

Credit Hours: 1.25 CEs

Date/Time: Thursday, May 27, 2010            1:30 pm – 2:45 pm

Learning Objectives: Upon completion of this program, you should be able to:

(1) Describe the role played by each member of the multiple-disciplinary team involved in the transition the offender makes from community to institution and back into the community;

(2) Describe the challenges faced in transitioning mentally disordered offenders from institutional setting to the community; and

(3) List strategies for dealing with those challenges.


CE Session: 9.2

Session Title: Using the Resident Assessment Instrument - Mental Health (RAI-MH) in Forensic Inpatient Settings

Presenter(s): Howard Barbaree, John Hirdes, Eva Neufeld, Chris Perlman, Krista Mathias

Credit Hours: 1.25 CEs

Date/Time: Thursday, May 27, 2010            1:30 pm – 2:45 pm

Learning Objectives: Upon completion of this program, you should be able to:

(1) Identify three critical uses of the RAI-MH in the forensic inpatient setting;

(2) Identify the need for "risk adjustment" in comparing clinical outcomes between hospitals and programs; and

(3) Describe the need for a "forensic supplement" to the RAI-MH.


CE Session: 9.4

Session Title: Recovery focussed low secure mental health care

Presenter(s): Jason Davies, Richard Maggs, Roger Lewis, Marie Williams, Cath Roberts, Claire Nagi, Alison Guyatt

Credit Hours: 1.25 CEs

Date/Time: Thursday, May 27, 2010            1:30 pm – 2:45 pm

Learning Objectives: Upon completion of this program, you should be able to:

(1)    Describe ways in which recovery based care can be delivered in low secure mental health services;

(2)    Describe the development and use of group interventions in this service; and

(3)    Describe outcomes from one year of operation in this service.

 

CE Session: Keynote Presentation #3

Session Title: Changing developmental trajectories in troubled adolescents: Obstacles and new approaches for intervention

Presenter(s): Anders Tengström

Credit Hours: 1 CE

Date/Time: Thursday, May 27, 2010            3:15 pm – 4:15 pm

Learning Objectives: Upon completion of this program, you should be able to:

(1) Describe the psychosocial consequences of different levels of Intelligence;

(2) Describe the association between psychopathy and mental health problems; and

(3) List the reasons why we might consider seeking advice from the US Army when designing our treatment programs.