PSY344H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Actus Reus, Psychological Abuse, Hypervigilance
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In order to be forensic psychologist, you need to be clinical psychologist who has this experience with special populations: special populations can be anything related to the legal systems, victims of crime, criminals, young offenders, sex offenders. Forensic psychology bachelor degree careers: clinical and counselling: human services worker, social worker, drug and alcohol abuse. Counselor, crime victim counselor, crisis management counselor: legal and forensic psychology: police officer, correctional officer, probation and parole officer, Assist in jury selection, theory of the trial (pleading insanity, defense, not there), focus groups (best way to address jury), cross examination techniques, expert testimony: mediator resolves legal disputes. Insanity: borrowed term from common parlance developed into a legal concept, the challenge for the prosecutor is to ensure the common concept of insanity does not invade the legal concept. Forensic psychologists and psychiatrists make assessments but do not diagnose people as insane: forensic psychologists make recommendations about what they believe but it"s a.
