The 45th Annual FMHAC Conference
March 11-13, 2020
The Annual Conference of the Forensic Mental Health Association of California is held each March at the Hyatt Regency Resort in Monterey, CA. It offers high quality presentations pertaining to forensic mental health and relevant to medical and mental health clinicians, law enforcement, the courts, parole and probation officers, and other professionals working with mentally ill offenders.
March 11-13, 2020
The Annual Conference of the Forensic Mental Health Association of California is held each March at the Hyatt Regency Resort in Monterey, CA. It offers high quality presentations pertaining to forensic mental health and relevant to medical and mental health clinicians, law enforcement, the courts, parole and probation officers, and other professionals working with mentally ill offenders.
Schedule
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Wednesday, March 11, 2020
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Thursday, March 12, 2020
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Friday, March 13, 2020
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Opening Presentation
- Understanding Mass Shootings: Pathways to Prevention; James Densley, PhD
Keynote Presentation
- Social Justice & Historical Repair: Race, Culture, Diversity, and the Lives of Healers in Forensic Mental Health; Matthew Mock, PhD
Breakout Presentations 1
- Controversies in Forensic Mental Health: Historical and Future Perspectives; Ariana Nesbit-Bartsch, MD, MBE
- The Diagnosis Debate: Its use in NGI, IST, MDO and SVP Evaluation – Part 1; Melinda DiCiro, PsyD, ABPP
- Practical Evidence-Based Interventions for Juveniles on Probation: Dialectical Behavior Therapy & Prosocial Interventions; Norbert Ralph, PhD, MPH
- The Good News About Burnout; Melissa Piasecki, MD
- Understanding Suicide and Suicide Risk in Specific Inmate Groups: Lifers, Females, and the Severely Mentally Ill; Robert Horon, PhD
Breakout Presentations 2
- What Does Change Management have to do with Forensic Mental Health? Part 1; Will Cash
- The Diagnosis Debate: Its use in NGI, IST, MDO and SVP Evaluation – Part 2; Melinda DiCiro, PsyD, ABPP
- An Overview of the Sexual Behavior Treatment Program: A Court Ordered Sex Offender Treatment for Juveniles in a Correctional Setting; Kirsten Mason, PsyD
- Evidence-Based Understanding of Empathy and Sexual Offending; Elijah Morrow, PsyD
- The Turnaround: Santa Barbara County's Approach to IST Treatment and Diversion; John Lewis, PhD
Breakout Presentations 3
- What Does Change Management have to do with Forensic Mental Health? Part 2; Will Cash
- The Elusive Compentence to Stand Trial Element: (In)ability to Assist Counsel in the Conduct of a Defense in a Rational Manner Element of Competence: How to Consider It; How to Evaluate It; John Philipsborn, MEd, MAS, JD
- Risk Assessment Approaches for Youth Who Have Sexually Offended: The Violence Risk Sexual-Youth Offense Version (VRS-YSO) Part 1; Mark Olver, PhD
- Field Reliability of SVP Evaluation; Joseph Lockhart, PhD, ABPP
- Creating and Maintaining a Behavioral Health Program in San Mateo County Correctional Facilities; Shivika Dharamrup, PsyD
Breakout Presentations 4
- Feigned Suicidality in Corrections: A Necessary but Perilous Differential Diagnosis; Joseph Obegi, PsyD
- Blueprint for a Successful Mental Health Court; Kristi Abbott, MSW, LCSW
- Risk Assessment Approaches for Youth Who Have Sexually Offended: The Violence Risk Sexual-Youth Sexual Offense Version (VRS-YSO) Part 2; Mark Olver, PhD
- Interventions for Developmentally Delayed Adults with Sexual Offending Behaviors: Creating Pathways for Healthy Sexual Thinking and Behaviors; Alan Stillman, LCSW
- The 5 Pillars of the Psychologically Healthy Workplace: Applications to Correctional and Forensic Settings; Parker Houston, PsyD, ABPP
Closing Presentations
- Social Determinants of Mental Health; Ruth Shim, MD, MPH
- Saving Lives: Caring for Individuals with Opioid Use Disorder and/or Co-Occurring Substance Use, Mental Health and Physical Health Disorders; Thomas Freese, PhD
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Continuing Education
13.5 Continuing Education Units Available for: BBS, BRN, CPA, CE
6 Continuing Education Units Available for: MCLE
Statements: FMHAC is approved by the California Psychological Association to provide continuing professional education for psychologists. FMHAC maintains responsibility for this program and its content. Provider #FOR005. Course meets the qualifications for 13.5 hours of continuing education credit for MFTs, LPCCs, LEPs, and LCSWs as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences through the California Psychological Association. State Bar of California MCLE Provider #15388. POST approval pending.
6 Continuing Education Units Available for: MCLE
Statements: FMHAC is approved by the California Psychological Association to provide continuing professional education for psychologists. FMHAC maintains responsibility for this program and its content. Provider #FOR005. Course meets the qualifications for 13.5 hours of continuing education credit for MFTs, LPCCs, LEPs, and LCSWs as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences through the California Psychological Association. State Bar of California MCLE Provider #15388. POST approval pending.
Cancellation Policy
Registration cancellation requests must be submitted in writing to morgan@fmhac.net.
- $50 cancellation fee if request is received by February 1, 2020
- $100 fee if received after February 12, 2020
- Cancellations are not refunded after March 5, 2020
