2025 Post-Conference Workshops

27 JUN 2025

We are pleased to offer a number of excellent post-conference workshops at the 2024 IAFMHS conference on Friday, 27 June 2025. Workshops are offered either as half-day or full-day. The workshops are open to all, regardless if you are attending the conference. The workshops will be hosted at  Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland.

Half-Day Workshop

Duration: 9am - 12.30pm  

Continuing Education (CE) credits: 3.5 credits

Cost: CAD$200

          (includes 01 refreshment break; lunch NOT included)

Full-Day Workshops

Duration: 9am - 5pm

Continuing Education (CE) credits: 7 credits

Cost: CAD$400 

          (includes 02 refreshment breaks; lunch NOT included)

*Please note we are not accredited to offer continuing medical education (CME) credits for workshops at this time. IAFMHS reserves the right to cancel the workshop if minimum enrollment is not reached. Participants will receive full refund in the event of workshop cancellation. 

To register for a Post-conference workshop, please CLICK HERE. 

Presenters: Prof. Harry Kennedy, Dr. Mary Davoren

Format: Half Day (9am - 12:30pm)

This half day workshop will provide training in the use of a validated SPJ tool to audit for proportionality and necessity in the use of restrictive and intrusive practices such as seclusion, restraint and extra medication. These are considered within a system of context-decisionpaths. Adverse behaviours are rated as a series of ‘ladders’ or scales and as a rounded description; interventions to prevent violence are rated as a series of ladders that are also a repertoire of skilled professional that also make a rounded description. Short term risk assessments, adverse behaviours and interventions can be analysed to show proportionality and necessity in the use of restrictive practices. Short term recovery measures will also be used for the assessment of when to end prolonged restrictive practices. Participants will receive an electronic copy of the handbook and a certificate of attendance.

Workshop details can be found HERE.

Presenters: Dr. Troy McEwan, Dr. Michele Galietta, Dr. Alan Underwood

Format: Full Day (9am - 5pm)

This full-day workshop will begin with a brief overview of the empirical literature on stalking, including prevalence, classification, and risk assessment approaches. Next, the presenters will offer a comprehensive model for assessing, managing, and treating stalking based on the best available data, theory, and shared clinical experiences. The model includes 10 general principles to guide treatment and specific tips for assessment and formulation, management, and treatment planning for individuals who stalk. Suggestions for sequencing treatments, matching specific interventions to problems, addressing common challenges in treatment, and communicating and collaborating with other agencies will be included. Participants will utilize case study materials to formulate a mock case and develop and discuss risk management and treatment plans.

Workshop details can be found HERE.

Workshop Option 3: Organizational responsibilities regarding psychological health and safety in the workplace and strategies for self-care for forensic mental health professionals

Presenter: Dr. Brianne K. Layden

Format: Full Day (9am - 5pm)

The focus of this workshop will highlight the nature of the problem, as well as draw on recent international work with respect to the identification and mitigation of psychological health and safety problems in the workplace, with a special focus on civil and criminal forensic settings. Specifically, the goals of the workshop are to: 1) help both organizations and forensic mental health professionals understand the nature and extent of the problems associated with declining psychological health and safety in the workplace; 2) assist organizations and forensic mental health professionals understand their legal and professional responsibilities with respect to self-care in the workplace; 3) review international guidelines and tools for identifying and responding to psychological health and safety in the workplace; 4) review warning signs for declining self-care; and 5) identify effective strategies for dealing with distress and increasing effective emotion regulation, drawing on specific evidence-based distress tolerance and emotion regulation skills from dialectical behaviour therapy.

Workshop details can be found HERE.