Law and Mental Health - Law and Mental Health: Trauma, Interrogations, and False Confessions

Law and Mental Health: Trauma, Interrogations, and False Confessions - Lucy Guarnera, Ph.D. Lucy Guarnera, Ph.D., is a licensed clinical psychologist and Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Neurobehavioral Sciences at the University of Virginia Institute of Law, Psychiatry, and Public Policy. Her research seeks to improve the fairness and accuracy of the justice system, both by studying biased decision-making among forensic experts and by investigating the legal experiences of vulnerable individuals, particularly adolescents and victims of sexual violence. Her original research on the legal experiences of women who became pregnant from rape has been honored with the Best Dissertation Award and multiple grants from the American Psychology-Law Society and American Academy of Forensic Psychology. As a clinician, she trained in empirically-based assessment and treatment of traumatic stress at the National Crime Victims Research and Treatment Center at the Medical University of South Carolina and completed a forensic postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Virginia. She currently conducts a wide variety of forensic evaluations, with an emphasis on interpersonal violence. Learning Objectives: 1. Describe existing correlational research linking self-reported traumatic events with suggestibility, compliance, and false confessions. 2. Explain theoretical mechanisms that may render individuals experiencing traumatic stress more likely to make involuntary or false confessions during police interrogations. 3. Assess how to apply this information to clinical-forensic evaluations of disputed confessions, using case examples as illustrations. 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. 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.