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Law and Mental Health: Competency to Stand Trial Evaluations Across Linguistic Discrepancies

Law and Mental Health: Competency to Stand Trial Evaluations Across Linguistic Discrepancies - Rebecca Weiss, Ph.D., Miriam Woodruff, M.A Rebecca A. Weiss is an Associate Professor at John Jay College of Criminal Justice and the Graduate Center of New York. Her research relates to assessment across linguistic and cultural barriers. She has collaborated with numerous hospitals including Bellevue Hospital, MidHudson Forensic Psychiatric Center and Kirby Psychiatric Center. She is also a licensed clinical psychologist in the state of New York, where she primarily conducts forensic evaluations. Miriam Woodruff is a 5th year clinical psychology doctoral student at John Jay College of Criminal Justice. Her research examines how culture and language characteristics impact psychological assessment with the goal of providing more guidance for psychologists evaluating multilinguals. She is a pediatric neuropsychology extern at Columbia University Medical Center and has experience working on criminal and civil forensic evaluations. Learning Objectives: 1. Describe the relevance and likelihood of linguistic discrepancies between evaluators and defendants in competency to stand trial evaluations. 2. Apply research relating to the use of language interpreters to competency to stand trial evaluations. 3. Critique three psychological tests that can be utilized with bilingual defendants or those who speak a language other than English. 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 [email protected]. 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.