Advanced Topics in Evaluation of Criminal Defendants’ Competence to Stand Trial: Part I

Advanced Topics in Evaluation of Criminal Defendants’ Competence to Stand Trial: Part I -Randy K. Otto, PhD, ABPP Randy Otto, Ph.D., ABPP has served on the faculties of the University of South Florida and Nova Southeastern University. In May of this year he will join the faculty in the College of Medicine at the University of New Mexico, where he will be Chief of the Division of Forensic Behavioral Sciences in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences. Dr. Otto’s research and writing focus on forensic psychological assessment. He has authored or edited 7 books devoted to forensic psychological evaluation, expert testimony and report writing, ethics in forensic psychology practice, assessment of trial competence, violence risk assessment, and Florida mental health law. Dr. Otto has served as president of the American Psychology-Law Society, the American Board of Forensic Psychology, and the Board of Trustees of the American Board of Professional Psychology. He is a fellow of the American Psychological Association (Division 41) and has received awards for his work from the American Academy of Forensic Psychology, the American Psychology-Law Society, the Society for Personality Assessment, the New York State Psychological Association, the University of Nebraska, and the University of California, San Francisco. He currently serves as Executive Director of the American Board of Forensic Psychology. Learning Objectives: 1.List and describe key differences between the concepts of privacy, confidentiality, and privilege. 2. Identify circumstances in which professionals are obligated to affirmatively disclose information shared by defendants undergoing competence examinations with persons or agencies other than the presiding judge, defense counsel, and prosecutor. 3. Describe how attorney-client privilege should be considered when examining criminal defendants’ competence to stand trial at the request of defense counsel. 4. Identify various response styles criminal defendants might adopt when undergoing evaluation of their competence to stand trial and ways to assess for such response styles. Please note: CEUs, CEs, and CMEs, as well as Certificates of Completion are not available from viewing recordings. In order to be eligible for credit, trainings and presentations must be attended live. Views expressed during this training or presentation do not reflect those of the University of New Mexico. Copyright Notice All Rights Reserved. All material appearing on the University of New Mexico Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Health Sciences YouTube (“content”) is protected by copyright under U.S. Copyright laws and is the property the University of New Mexico Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Health Sciences or the party credited as the provider of the content. You may not copy, reproduce, distribute, publish, display, perform, modify, create derivative works, transmit, or in any way exploit any such content, nor may you distribute any part of this content over any network, including a local area network, sell or offer it for sale, or use such content to construct any kind of database. You may not alter or remove any copyright or other notice from copies of the content on the University of New Mexico Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Health Sciences YouTube. Copying or storing any content except as provided above is expressly prohibited without prior written permission of the University or the copyright holder identified in the individual content’s copyright notice. For permission to use the content on the University’s website, please contact clinTBH@salud.unm.edu. Disclaimer The content contained in University of New Mexico Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Health Sciences YouTube is provided only for educational and informational purposes or as required by U.S. or N.M. law. The University attempts to ensure that content is accurate and obtained from reliable sources, but does not represent it to be error-free. University of New Mexico Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Health Sciences may add, amend or repeal any policy, procedure or regulation, and failure to timely post such changes to its website shall not be construed as a waiver of enforcement. University of New Mexico Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Health Sciences does not warrant that any functions on its website will be uninterrupted, that defects will be corrected, or that the website will be free from viruses or other harmful components. Any links to third party information on the University’s YouTube are provided as a courtesy and do not constitute an endorsement of those materials or the third party providing them.