Can You Predict Violent Behavior?
A great opportunity for social workers, counselors, healthcare providers, first responders, school counselors, etc. - CEUs available

[January 31, 2017]  SPRINGFIELD - Memorial Behavioral Health is bringing one of the most outstanding speakers in the field of forensic psychiatry to Springfield on March 10, 2017. A great opportunity for social workers, counselors, healthcare providers, first responders, school counselors, etc.

Phillip Resnik, MD, is a leading international authority on forensic psychiatry, specializing in the clinical prediction of the risk of violence and the assessment of malingering and deception. He consulted on or provided expert testimony witness on a number of high profile criminal cases, including those of Jeffrey Dahmer, Susan Smith, Timothy McVeigh, Andrea Yates, Scott Peterson, Casey Anthony, Theodore Kaczynski (the Unabomber), and James Holmes (Colorado theater shooter).

This workshop will provide a practical map through the uncertainty in risk assessment for violence in individuals with psychiatric disorders. Dangerousness will be discussed in persons with schizophrenia, mania, depression and personality disorders. Special attention will be given to which delusions and hallucination are more likely to lead to violence.

The duty to protect while meeting your ethical obligations to keep information confidential will be discussed. During this one-day workshop, techniques and procedures will be discussed as will video case examples and case histories of persons who have committed violence acts.

For more details or to register, visit:
https://www.memorialbehavioralhealth.
org/Professionals/Attend-a-Conference/
Conference-Overview

[Angela Stoltzenburg, MBA
Marketing and Community Partnerships Manager
Abraham Lincoln Memorial Hospital
Healthy Communities Partnership]