Our final planned part of the Law & Mental Health Series's, um, series, on AI use in forensic psychology includes Heath Hodges discussing something on a lot of our minds... ethical considerations! #PsychLaw
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Recent findings from a national correspondence audit experiment show that people who have been wrongfully convicted continue to face major barriers to reentry.
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Did someone say Sequential Intercept Model? Jaymes Fairfax-Columbo has you covered for the next Law & Mental Health Series! #PsychLaw
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What does the future of correctional psychology look like?
At #APLS2026, Dr. Jennifer Skeem joined the Correctional Committee’s invited symposium on digital technology, crime prevention, and re-entry. Honored to be in conversation with Emily Dauria and Matthew Rowland.
#PsychLaw #CrimJustice
I noticed 3 themes
in the APLS talks
that I attended:
1: more youth focus
2: language translation needs
3: AI (all sides)
#APLS2026
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#AcademicHaiku
Early results for
mental health feigning screener
in Spanish is good
(Spanish version of the MFAST for screening symptom validity… encouraging results but from limited data)
Apacero, SIU Carbondale
#APLS2026
#PsychLaw
#AcademicHaiku
A shorter version
of the TOMM produced a lot
of false negatives.
(Suggests not a useful screener of feigning memory impairment)
McIerney, John Jay
#APLS2026
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#AcademicHaiku
Conference highlight:
4 years of postdoc cohorts
At lunch together.
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Think of CST
as a specific type of
adaptive function
Boyd, on competency to stand trial for those w intellectual disability
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“Where’d that thought come from?”
Good to know when sovereign
Beliefs are mentioned
To distinguish these
Ideology beliefs
From pathology.
(Re sovereign citizen claims by defendants in court)
Stewart, Bama
#APLS2026
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#AcademicHaiku
Most diagnostic
Translations to Spanish
Were non-viable.
This trend extends to
Most legal term translations
People tried to give
(81% of attempted translations of diagnostic jargon by bilingual speakers didn’t work)
Fehringer, Metropolitan St Denver
#APLS2026
#PsychLaw
#AcademicHaiku
We discuss 6 steps
In a model to reduce
Cultural bias
Based on the research
On diagnostic error
& culture frameworks.
Team from Antioch
#APLS2026
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Since 2014,
Less testing used, longer time
To complete evals
Prelim data from @tessneal.bsky.social updating 2014 survey of forensic examiner practices
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Competency STILL
The top forensic refer’l
(But now by a lot)
Prelim data by @tessneal.bsky.social updating decade-old survey of forensic examiner practices
#APLS2026
#PsychLaw
#AcademicHaiku
PTSD was
Based more on “vibes” than measures
For immigration
(Review of competency exam report in immigration court & PTSD diagnoses)
#APLS2026
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#AcademicHaiku
The Constitution
does not mandate states offer
Insanity pleas.
(As seen in 4 states
that don’t offer defenses
for insanity)
DeMatteo, Drexel
#APLS2026
#PsychLaw
#AcademicHaiku
Was mental illness
Needed AND sufficient for
The crime to occur?
Fairfax-Columbo on using more basic clinical mindsets to unpack criminal responsibility
#APLS2026
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#AcademicHaiku
Sentence options show
crim responsibility
Is dimensional.
King, Montclair St.
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A slide showing hot ones question
Resources go to
When money is on the line,
Not our liberties.
Speaker at the THIRD APLS Hot Ones panel (on civil forensic issues)
#APLS2026
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#AcademicHaiku
Examiners were
More satisfied w their pay
If “no shows” get comp’d
UNM’s Cardwell & Paniagua on compensation for competency to stand trial exams
#APLS2026
#PsychLaw
#AcademicHaiku
Comp exam training
Increased staff knowledge base on
More than competence
@sidracapriolo.bsky.social on a competency to stand trial restoration training program thru UBama
#APLS2026
#PsychLaw
#AcademicHaiku
Incompetence rates
Are WAY higher than the oft-
Cited past base rates.
(Our state data at 60% incompetent to stand trial vs. the famous 27.5% stat)
Me but led by @jenperillo.bsky.social
#APLS2026
#PsychLaw
#AcademicHaiku
Personality
Tools for kids fail to measure
Critical pieces!
BUT some of it’s in
how we measure ODD,
Just in a “risk” way.
(Re construct of social dominance, w/ implications for leadership)
@jnfrltackett.bsky.social
#APLS2026
#PsychLaw
#AcademicHaiku
Perceptions, rewards
Heightened in adolescence.
Ripe for leader skills!
@jnfrltackett.bsky.social
#APLS2026
#PsychLaw
#AcademicHaiku
Who are game changers?
Help ID youth that can be
Tomorrows’ leaders.
Plenary by
@jnfrltackett.bsky.social
#APLS2026
#PsychLaw
#AcademicHaiku
Cover of 2026 APLS Conference program
APLS, the
Biggest Little conference,
Starts now in Reno.
#APLS2026
#PsychLaw
#AcademicHaiku
Hey #PsychLaw people:
Going to APLS?
Here's a Starter Pack:
(comment if you're going & want to be added)
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We’re excited to see APA spotlight newly published research from PPPL! The study provides experimental evidence that victim narratives can significantly increase public support for proposed legislation—independent of policy content.
#psychlaw #lawpsych #psychology #law
As someone who learned so much after having ASL interpreters at a forensic examination, I'm excited for Tuesday's Law & Mental Health Series, where Dave Feldman will cover forensic evals w/ the Deaf Community. #PsychLaw
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