Forensic Mental Health Counseling

Forensic Mental Health Counseling

Issued by The Chicago School

Earners of the Forensic Mental Health Counseling badge demonstrated foundational knowledge and skills assessing and treating forensic clients across the lifespan including applying motivational interviewing matched to stage of change and principles of traumatic neurodevelopment and emotional dysregulation with minors in foster care and adult sexual assault and interpersonal violence survivors and juvenile and adult offenders with addictions, domestic violence, and sexual offending behaviors.

Skills

  • Abuse
  • Addictions
  • Diversity
  • Domestic Violence
  • Emotional Dysregulation
  • Ethical Standards And Conduct
  • Mental Health
  • Mental Health Counseling
  • Motivational Interviewing
  • Neuro-sequential Model
  • Sex Offenders
  • Trauma Informed

Earning Criteria

  • Earning a passing grade of B or higher in the following course: CM 671 Forensic Mental Health Counseling
  • Supervised Skills Practice: Practice applying motivational interviewing skills matched to stage of change.
  • Case Application: Completion of 10 case studies applying the neurosequential model of therapeutics and how this impacts emotion dysregulation, as well as socio-cultural contextual factors affecting forensic clients' development of mental health challenges.
  • Mid-term and Final Exams: Demonstrated knowledge of ethical, legal, and sociocultural contexts of forensic work; the counselor's role on multidisciplinary forensic teams; assessment and evidence based treatment of sexual assault survivors across the lifespan, domestic violence survivors, juvenile and adult offenders with addictions, juvenile and adult sex offenders, and adult batterers.