Memorial Behavioral Health to Host Forensic Psychiatry Expert
Continuing Education Units available

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[February 24, 2017]  SPRINGFIELD – Memorial Behavioral Health will hold a conference next month featuring a leading international authority on forensic psychiatry.

Dr. Phillip Resnick will lead the workshop, titled "Risk Assessment of Violence: Predicting Violent Behavior – Can It Be Done?" The conference will be held from 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. Friday, March 10, at the Memorial Center for Learning and Innovation, 228 W. Miller Street, Springfield.

Resnick is the director of forensic psychiatry at Case School of Medicine in Cleveland and is past president of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law. He has consulted on or provided expert testimony on a number of high-profile criminal cases, including Jeffrey Dahmer, Susan Smith, Timothy McVeigh, Andrea Yates, Scott Peterson, Casey Anthony, Theodore Kaczynski (the Unabomber) and James Holmes (Colorado theater shooter).

Registration fee applies with discounts if enrolled by February 23rd. Online registration and more information are available at https://www.memorial behavioralhealth.org/Professionals/Attend-a-Conference/Conference-Overview

Continuing education units will be provided for social workers, professional counselors, educators, and nurses.

[MHS Public Relations]

 

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