Criminal Justice Assessments: Sex Offenders & Intimate Partner Violence

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Criminal Justice Assessments: Sex Offenders & Intimate Partner Violence

★★★★★ 4.69 (48 reviews) Difficulty: Intermediate

Description

Could you sit in the same room as someone accused of murder? Determine competency of a 10-year-old child? Take a thorough history of sexually explicit crimes? This is Dr. Brenna Tindall’s life.

In this two part interview, Dr. Brenna Tindall talks with Dr. Jeremy Sharp about assessing and treating intimate partner violence and sexual violence. This interview dives deep into how these concepts overlap and examines the relatively small amount of research in this area. For those of you in the forensic arena, and anyone else interested in violent behavior within relationships, this is a must-listen. Here are just a few topics covered in the interview…

  • How to assess intimate partner violence and sexual violence
  • Why it’s important to separate the two
  • Statistics on incidence and co-occurrence of intimate partner violence and sexual violence
  • Recommendations for offenders/perpetrators of intimate partner violence and sexual violence

Format: Asynchronous, distance learning. Non-interactive. Recorded audio with transcript.

Want to hear the interview, Part 1? Listen for free using the audio player below.
Interview with Brenna Tindall

Want to hear the interview, Part 2? Listen for free using the audio player below.
Interview with Brenna Tindall

This interview was published in February of 2018.

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Course Details

Credits
2
Course Format
Recorded audio, asynchronous, distance-learning, non-interactive, includes transcript.
Target Audience
Psychologists, Counselors, Marriage and Family Therapists, Social Workers, Addiction Counselors, Nurses
CE Credit Type / Category
General, Assessment
Course Level
Intermediate
Conflict of Interest
None reported
Publication Date
October 15, 2019
Last Modified
October 15, 2019

Learning Objectives

  • Discuss the impact of cumulative career traumatic stress and how to recognize it in oneself and others
  • Assess intimate partner violence and sexual violence and explain why it is important to separate the two
  • State the incidence and co-occurrence of intimate partner violence and sexual violence
  • Articulate why addressing mental illness and intellectual disabilities is critical when testing for domestic violence or sexual violence
  • Detail the differences between illicit and implied consent

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Syllabus 5 lessons

  1. 🖹 [B3302-A20] Part One: Sex Offenders, Forensics, and Criminal Justice Evaluations - Text Interview with Dr.Brenna Tindall
  2. 🖹 [B3302-A20] Part One: Sex Offenders, Forensics, and Criminal Justice Evaluations - Audio Interview with Dr.Brenna Tindall
  3. 🖹 [B3302-A20] Part Two: Domestic Violence and Sex Offenders -Text Interview with Dr. Brenna Tindall
  4. 🖹 [B3302-A20] Part Two: Domestic Violence and Sex Offenders - Audio Interview with Dr. Brenna Tindall
  5. 🖹 [B3302-A20] References

Author Bio

Brenna Tindall, Psy.D., CAC III is a Licensed Psychologist, Full Operating SOMB evaluator/provider, Full Operating DVOMB evaluator, and Certified Addiction Counselor III. She has extensive experience evaluating and treating adult and adolescent clients who are involved with the criminal justice system.  She is also an Full Operating Evaluator for Offender’s with Intellectual Disabilities.  Dr. Tindall is a Certified Trainer for the SOTIPS and VASOR-2 adult sex offender risk assessments, as well as a Certified Trainer of the J-SOAP-II for juvenile sex offenders.  She is also a Certified Child Contact Assessment (CCA) Evaluator. She earned her Bachelor’s degree in psychology from Colorado State University and her Master’s and Doctorate degrees from the University of Denver.

Dr. Tindall specializes in forensic evaluations of individuals in the criminal justice system to include psychological evaluations, insanity evaluations, competency evaluations, sex offense specific evaluations, domestic violence evaluations, dual diagnosis evaluations, substance abuse evaluations, cognitive evaluations, and Child Contact Assessments. Of particular importance to Dr. Tindall is the application of the Risk Need Responsivity Principle as it applies to the assessment and identification of needs of offenders.  Dr. Tindall presented at the ATSA conference in 2017; is presenting at the 2018 MASOC conference in Massachusetts; the 2018 ATSA/Alliance Conference in New York in 2018; and presents annually at the Colorado SOMB conference. She has presented on areas such as sex offender risk assessments; juvenile sex offender risk assessment instruments; cumulative career traumatic stress/vicarious trauma; the “ins-and-outs of psychosexual evaluations;” juvenile and adult SOMB Standards; and psychological evaluations as possible mitigation in criminal cases.

You can get in touch with Brenna via email at [email protected].

Dr. Jeremy Sharp is a licensed psychologist and Clinical Director at the Colorado Center for Assessment & Counseling, a private practice that he founded in 2009.  Dr. Sharp earned his  undergraduate degree in Experimental Psychology from the University of South Carolina before getting his Master’s and PhD in Counseling Psychology from Colorado State University. These days, he specializes in psychological and neuropsychological evaluation with kids and adolescents.

As the host of the Testing Psychologist Podcast, Dr. Sharp provides private practice consulting for psychologists and other mental health professionals who want to start or grow psychological testing services in their practices. He lives in Fort Collins, Colorado with his wife (also a therapist) and two young kids.

Instructors

Brenna Tindall, Psy.D

Jeremy Sharp, PhD

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