2025-2026 Forensic Workshop Series
This is a hybrid workshop. You can register to attend in-person or virtually!
Course Description
Ms. Terrell has developed a series of workshops designed for social workers, mental health practitioners, and criminal justice professionals. Each workshop will have a diverse panel of members, including lawyers and judges, sharing their first-hand knowledge and experiences with the criminal justice system.
November 3, 2025
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Forensic Practice and the Civil and Criminal Justice System
6.0 contact hours (including 1.0 ethics and 1.0 supervision)
This workshop will provide a general overview of forensic practice and roles in both the criminal and civil justice systems. Integration of trauma and ethical dilemmas within community corrections programs, specialty courts, expert witness testimony, and elder law will be presented. Participants will have the opportunity to analyze several cases and discuss with an expert panel that includes lawyers and judges.
March 2, 2026
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Forensic Practice and Death Penalty Mitigation
6.0 contact hours (including 1.0 ethics and 5.0 clinical)
This forensic practice workshop will provide a detailed discussion of death penalty mitigation, including the analysis of general mitigation initiatives and the development of a capital mitigation defense.
Objectives:
- Learn what constitutes a mitigation defense.
- Identify the components of a mitigation assessment.
- Apply the concepts of a mitigation defense to adolescents appropriate for “Miller Ruling” cases.
- Discuss ethical Issues and challenges in death penalty cases.
Understand how to present a mitigation defense in a sentencing
May 11, 2026
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Forensic Practice and the Family Court System
6.0 contact hours (including 2.0 ethics and 4.0 clinical )
This forensic practice workshop will describe therapeutic divorce mediation, including issues such as parental alienation, emotional abuse, and more. In addition, juvenile sex offender risk assessment models and therapeutic interventions will be described.
Objectives:
- Learn the concepts and techniques of therapeutic divorce mediation.
- Learn the relationship between developmental dynamics and therapeutic divorce mediation.
- Identify two juvenile sex offender risk assessments.
- Discuss ethical dilemmas in high conflict divorce mediation.