Course Overview
Provides a clinical and forensic science based model of care for forensic assessment and evaluation of patients/victims of trauma, violence and crime across the lifespan. Includes: child maltreatment, interpersonal violence, elder maltreatment, sexual assault, toxicology, and intentional/ non intentional trauma.
Prerequisite(s)
- Admission to a Forensic credential program or permission of the Program Coordinator.
Credits
3.0
- Retired
- This course has been retired and is no longer offered. Find other Flexible Learning courses that may interest you.
Learning Outcomes
Upon successful completion, the student will be able to:
- Apply forensic terminology to the clinical management of victims of trauma, violence and crime.
- Develop a forensic assessment for children who are victims of trauma, violence and crime.
- Develop a forensic assessment for adolescents who are victims of trauma, violence and crime.
- Develop a forensic assessment for adults who are victims of trauma, violence and crime.
- Outline the catagories of forensic evidence in its various forms such as physical, direct, trace.
- Outline how to collect forensic evidence from victims of trauma, violence and crime.
- Assess the differences between medical documention and clinical forensic documentation procedures including accuracy, completeness, and chain of custody for forensic evidence collection.
- Interpret the effects of alcohol and drug toxicology on the human body.
- Outline the judicial role and qualifications of an expert witness versus a medical witness within the Canadian justice system.
Effective as of Fall 2005
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