CORE AND ENHANCED INTERVIEWING SKILLS FOR FORENSIC PSYCHOLOGISTS (2-dagsinternat / ekspertkursus)

Underviser: Dr. Caroline Logan, Consultant Forensic Clinical Psychologist & Honorary Associate Professor, University College London, UK.

Om arrangementet

Forensic psychologists require skills in the direct assessment of individuals who may be anxious, ambivalent, or even reluctant to engage in such an assessment process. The core skills required are those related to interviewing, specifically a combination of skills in forensic and clinical interviewing. Forensic psychologists also need access to specialist or enhanced interviewing skills when interacting with individuals who have difficulties relating to others, such as those with mental health or personality issues, social communication difficulties associated with neurodiverse presentations, or complex presentations involving multiple problems and areas of need.

Arrangements formål

This intensive and participatory two-day workshop will cover the range of core and enhanced interviewing skills that forensic psychologists should be familiar with and ready to use.

Læringsmål

1. To enhance the awareness of participants in interview styles and techniques, including their own.
2. To encourage the development of new skills, such as in conversational facilics in direct assessment interviews.
3. To provide participants with some exercises with which they may practice and observe developments in their interviewing competencies following the workshop.

Undervisningsform

Day one will focus on the core interviewing skills for direct assessments. Skills include interview preparation and planning, managing initial contacts and follow-ups, and building rapport throughout. Specific techniques then will be examined, illustrated and practiced, such as inquiring and changing topics (using conversational facilics), probing, observing, managing and riding resistance, and detecting and challenging anomalous accounts. At the end of day one, a personality-based approach to interviewing will be described and discussed.
Day two will focus on how to adapt existing and new skills to more challenging interview situations, namely the direct assessment of people with mental health problems, including personality difficulties, and people who are neurodivergent. Attention will also be given to interviewing people who exaggerate or feign mental health problems. Case studies and exercises will be used to illustrate and enhance learning and test skills.

Temaer i arrangementet

Day 1: Core interviewing skills for forensic psychologists
- Core skills: Interview preparations and planning, and managing initial contacts and endings
- Rapport building, maintenance and recovery – and what to do when it’s gone
- Specific techniques: Enquiring and changing topics (or conversational facilics), probing, observing, managing and riding resistance, and detecting and challenging anomalous accounts
- A personality-based approach to interviewing, including participatory exercises Day 2: Enhanced interviewing skills for forensic psychologists
- Interviewing people who have mental health problems linked to the risks they may pose (including case study)
- Interviewing people with personality problems linked to the threats they may pose (including case study) – interviewing people who misrepresent their mental health problems, if not malinger, will be considered here
- Interviewing neurodiverse people whose neurodiversity is relevant to the threats they may pose (including case study)
- Interviewing people with a range of problems and complex needs linked to the threats they may pose (including case study)

Målgruppe

Dette kursus er primært målrettet psykologer, men andre relevante faggrupper kan også deltage.
Andre faggrupper må max. udgøre 25% af det samlede deltagerantal.

Forberedelse og hjemmearbejde

Umiddelbart intet krav herom.

Litteratur
- Ackley, C., Mack, S., Beyer, K., & Erdberg, P. (2010). Investigative and forensic interviewing: A personality-focused approach. Boca Raton: CRC Press. 
- Gladwell, M. (2019). Talking to strangers: What we should know about the people we don’t know. London: Penguin. 
- Logan, C., (2021). Forensic clinical interviewing. Chapter in P. Turner and N. Gredecki (Eds), Topics in Applied Psychology: Forensic Psychology. London: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003017103-5 
- Meloy, J. (2005). The forensic interview. In R.J. Craig (Ed.), Clinical and diagnostic interviewing, pp.422-43. Jason Aronson Inc: Lanham, ML. 
- Oxburgh, G., Fahsing, I., Haworth, K., & Blair, J. (2016). Interviewing suspected offenders. In G. Oxburgh, T. Myklebust, T. Grant & R. Milne (Eds.), Communication in investigative and legal contexts: Integrated approaches from forensic psychology, linguistics and law enforcement, pp. 135-158. Chichester: Wiley Blackwell.   
- Shea, S. (2017). Psychiatric interviewing: The art of understanding: A practical guide for psychiatrists, psychologists, counsellors, social workers, nurses, and other mental health professionals, 3rd edition. Philadelphia, PA: Saunders.  
- Vrij, A., Meissner, C., Fisher, R., Kassin, S., Morgan III, C., & Kleinman, S. (2017). Psychological perspectives on interrogation. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 12(6), 927-955. 
- Special Issue on forensic clinical interviewing (part 1) 2018, edited by C. Logan. International Journal of Forensic Mental Health, 17. Forensic Clinical Interviewing: Toward Best Practice - Caroline Logan, 2018 
- Special Issue on forensic clinical interviewing (part 2) 2019, edited by C. Logan. International Journal of Forensic Mental Health, 18, online. https://doi.org/10.1080/14999013.2019.1589120 

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Om underviseren

Caroline Logan is a Consultant Forensic Clinical Psychologist. She has worked as a lead consultant in high and medium secure forensic mental health services in the north of England, and as a consultant/contractor with law enforcement and threat assessment and management agencies in the UK and elsewhere for almost 30 years. Currently, she is an Associate Clinical Consultant with Theseus Fixated Risk Management, based in London, and a scientist at Helse Bergen, Norway. She has held academic appointments since being awarded her research doctorate in 1996 – at the universities of Liverpool and Manchester, and she has just commenced an academic affiliation with University College London in the position of Honorary Associate Professor. Dr Logan has ongoing clinical and research interests in personality disorder, risk, violent extremism, and forensic clinical interviewing, and she has a special interest in gender issues in the range of violent and offending behaviour. She has published five books and over 90 articles on these subjects, including Violent Extremism: A Handbook of Risk Assessment and Management, a book co-edited with Randy Borum and Paul Gill, published in November 2023, and a second edition of Managing Clinical Risk: A Guide to Effective Practice co-edited with Lorraine Johnstone, published in January 2024. She has commenced work on a new book on violent extremism in youth, again with Professors Randy Borum and Paul Gill, and a book on personality and risk is in the pipeline.