CE Course: Improving Credibility Assessment in Therapeutic Settings

Description

Humintell is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. Humintell maintains responsibility for this program and its content. Including instruction, readings, and review this course provides 5 hours of continuing education (5 CE credits) for psychologists.

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Course Description

Doctoral level psychologists constantly assess the credibility of the statements provided to them in therapeutic sessions; and, there is a rich research literature on cues to deception, honesty, credibility and trustworthiness.

Despite this rich literature, however, to our knowledge, there is currently no APA approved continuing education course covering knowledge or skills regarding evaluating truthfulness, detecting deception, or assessing credibility, honesty, or trustworthiness.

Post-doctoral psychologists need to be able to assess credibility of their clients when in session and learning these practical skills will help psychologists identify areas that need to be probed more and where there are concealed thoughts, feelings, or opinions.

This may be particularly insightful when interacting with a patient to predict where there may be more to the story than what’s being told.

Learning Objectives

(1) Describe what the Pinnochio effect is with regards to credibility assessment using behavioral indicators.

(2) Recite the differences between validated, non-validated and unvalidated indicators of deception and provide examples of each.

(3) Define what a “behavioral indicator” is with regards to deception detection.

(4) Define the characteristics of a “microexpression” and what they may indicate with regards too deception detection.

Developed By

Dr. David Matsumoto is a Professor of Psychology at San Francisco State University and world-renowned expert in the field of emotion, culture, and nonverbal behavior. He has published over 400 books, book chapters, and journal articles on these subjects.

Additional Information

Format and Length:

Recorded video format (non-interactive). Total running time 120 minutes that is accompanied by supplemental material and readings. You can complete the course in multiple sittings and we recommend participants review the material more than once prior to taking the post-test.

Instructional Level:

Introductory training for psychologists, psychiatrists, and mental health professionals.

Completion Requirements:

To obtain your CE certificate, you must progress through all course segments and readings, and obtain a score of 80% or higher on a post-test. Users will have a maximum of 3 attempts to complete the post-test at 80% proficiency.

Post Test and Course Evaluation:

After watching course video and supplemental reading, the post-test will be available to complete, along the course evaluation.

Who Should Attend:

Psychologists, counselors, masters or doctoral level clinical social workers, and marriage and family therapists.

Financial Support Statement:

Humintell pays course presenters for their teaching. There is no other financial support for this course.

Conflict of Interest Statement:

There is no potential conflict of interest or outside commercial support for this course.

Refund Policy:

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Contact Information:

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System Requirements:

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