How to Examine Mental Health Experts: A Practical Plan - Webcast
March 2014
How to Examine Mental Health Experts: A Practical Plan
Program Description:
Examining mental health experts can be confusing, even daunting. This course offers a practical framework with which to conduct effective examinations of mental health experts and to organize legal arguments based on the expert testimony. Although the course is oriented to family lawyers, any lawyer who deals with mental health experts will benefit from this course.
COURSE OBJECTIVES:
- IDENTIFY the key mindset with which to approach the examination of mental health experts
- UNDERSTAND what reliable testimony really means
- LEARN the PLAN Model, a practical four-step framework based in caselaw and in psychology's literature and ethics, to examine mental health experts, their work, and their testimony
- APPLY the PLAN Model to specific examination issues
Presented by John A. Zervopoulos, Ph.D., J.D., ABPP
Agenda:
8:30am
Registration and Continental Breakfast
9:00am
Introduction and Welcome
9:10am - 12:00pm
Programming (includes one 15-minute break mid-morning)
- Identify the key mindset with which to approach the examination of mental health experts
- Understand what reliable testimony really means
- Learn the PLAN Model, a practical four-step framework based in caselaw and in psychology's literature and ethics, to examine mental health experts, their work, and their testimony
- Apply the PLAN Model to specific examination issues
12:00pm
Adjourn
Registration Fees
| Non Member | $229.00 |
| CBA Member | $199.00 |
| Government Agency | $179.00 |
| CBA Litigation Section Member | $179.00 |
| CBA Family Law Section Member | $179.00 |
| CBA Health Law Section Member | $179.00 |
| Paralegal/Legal Support Staff | $169.00 |
| New Lawyer - CBA Health Law Section Member; in practice < 3 years | $169.00 |
| CLEACCESSPASS | $0.00 |
- General Credits: 3.00
- Ethics Credits:
- EDI Credits:
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