To prepare:
- From the “Master List of Advanced Issues in Forensic Psychology” document in the Learning Resources, select one advanced issue in forensic psychology you will examine for this Discussion.
- Explore the issue using the Learning Resources and your own internet research of reputable resources. Consider the following during your exploration of the issue:
- recent news about the issue
- advantages and challenges related to the issue, including ethical challenges
- potential solutions to address the ethical challenges
- potential solutions to address the issue and foster positive social change
- For this Week 1 Discussion, you will begin to create a narrated PowerPoint with video. Review the “PowerPoint Resources” and Kaltura interactive media in the Learning Resources to support your development of a narrated PowerPoint with video.
- Use the OASIS PowerPoint presentation template in the Learning Resources for the narrated PowerPoint you will begin developing this week and submit in Week 2.
Narrated PowerPoint Requirements:
Your narrated PowerPoint video must be 5-7 minutes in length and contain both a PowerPoint and video of you presenting/narrating the PowerPoint. The content should be substantial and supported with scholarly evidence from your own research and/or the Learning Resources, and properly cited using APA style. Including the following elements in your narrated PowerPoint:
- Title slide
- Issue Description. Describe the current advanced issue in forensic psychology you chose and why you think it is occurring? Include in your description a recent (less than 5 years) example of the issue in the news.
- Advantages. Describe at least two advantages of the issue, supported by research
- Ethical Challenges. Identify at least one ethical challenge related to the issue, supported by research.
- Proposed Solution. Describe your proposed solution for overcoming the ethical challenge you identified, supported by research
- Positive Social Change Impact. Explain how your proposed solution for overcoming the ethical challenge supports social change.
- References
Scholarly evidence from your own research and/or the Learning Resources, properly cited using APA style, and supporting your content.
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Master List of Advanced Issues in
Forensic Psychology
Instructions: For the Week 1 Discussion, you must choose one advanced issue in
forensic psychology from the list below. For the Week 1 Assignment, you must also
choose one advanced issue in forensic psychology from the list below. The issue you
choose for the Week 1 Assignment will also be the issue you examine for your Final
Project due in Week 10. The Week 1 Assignment focuses on the “Issue Description”
component of your Final Project. Note: The issue you identify for the Week 1 Discussion
can be the same issue you select for the Week 1 Assignment and Final Project, or you
may choose a different issue for each from the list below.
1. Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
a. Discuss challenges facing forensic psychology professionals for one of the
following areas: diversity, equity, or inclusion.
b. Focus must entail the role of the forensic psychology professional and not just a
selected forensic population.
2. Social Determinants of Health in Forensic Settings and/or Populations
a. Select only one determinant factor for the focus of your project.
3. Insanity Evaluation (select only one of the following issues)
a. Parole hearings
b. Sentencing decisions
c. Civil commitment cases
4. Expert Witness Qualifications and Witness Testimony (select only one of the
following issues)
a. Effective vs. ineffective practice
b. Licensure vs. non-licensure and qualifications in your home state
c. Consulting
d. Testifying
e. Empirical evidence
5. Differentials of Instrumental vs. Expressive Crime
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a. If you select this issue, you should not discuss known or media-populated
cases.
6. Crime Scene Analysis (for this issue, you must include all the following):
a. Staging
b. Undoing
c. Posing
d. Signatures
7. Trait/Characteristic Differentials of Psychopathic vs. Sociopathic Offenders
a. If you select this issue, you should not include or discuss specific offenders
(e.g., Ted Bundy, Joseph Couch, Adam Lanza, etc.)
8. Interview Techniques for Psychopathic vs. Sociopathic Offenders
9. Terrorist Recruitment (select only one of the following):
a. Recruitment techniques
b. Influence of social media
c. Threat minimization
d. Terrorist profile (Note: Do not discuss known historical figures)
10. Working with Juvenile Offenders (select only one of the following)
Note: As this program is not designed for licensure, please do not discuss treatment)
a. Evaluating levels of dangerousness
b. Types of facility placements available (e.g., group residential care, detention,
maximum security, etc.)
c. Best Practices in Interviewing
d. Recidivism
e. Delinquency Prevention
11. Human Trafficking and/or Prevention (select one or more of the following):
Note: Sex trafficking, whether child or adult, is not an approved topic for the Final
Project.
a. Forced labor
b. Debt bondage
c. Domestic servitude
d. Forced marriage
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e. Recruitment and use of child soldiers
f. Trafficker profile (Note: Do not discuss sex traffickers)
12. Prison Populations (Select one of the following)
a. Historical event (e.g., federal investigation for sexual misconduct at Julia
Tutwiler Prison for Women)
i. Discuss how a forensic psychology professional could establish a
prevention program to mitigate future events—be detailed and evidence-
based
b. Crime within prisons (e.g., inmate on staff assault, etc.)
c. An overview of a state or federal prison located within your region. Overview
must include the following:
i. Type of inmates housed (e.g., violent, min/max security, death row, sex
offender, etc.) (Note: Do not identify offenders by name)
ii. Demographics
iii. Programs offered and eligibility (e.g., sex offender rehabilitation for first-
time offenders, anger management, GED classes, etc.)
iv. Locate at least one publicly available facility ethical issue (e.g.,
investigation of misconduct, mistreatment, violation of inmate rights,
public Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA) violation/investigation, riots,
etc.). Discuss how a forensic psychology professional could establish a
prevention program to mitigate future events—be detailed and evidence-
based.
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