Course Overview
This course will provide students with a foundation set of skills in preparation for problem interventions and front line leadership in common criminal justice situations. They will examine theories and develop skills for successful interventions. The course introduces strategies for negotiation, mediation, crisis management, conflict de-escalation, and facilitation of problem solving and decision-making. The course also includes a focus on the necessary ethical dimensions of professional interventions in the criminal justice field. Students will also learn appropriate intervention strategies for a wide range of situations including one-to-one encounters, in team situations, and in organizations. The skills of personal mastery, interpersonal communication skills, interviewing skills, conflict management, and understanding of diversity, team leadership, decision making and problem solving models are also introduced and practiced.
Prerequisite(s)
- Admission to a Forensics credential program or Permission from the Program Head.
Credits
3.0
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Learning Outcomes
At the end of this course students will be able to:
- Identify and discuss how communication and problem-solving interventions are the foundation of effective leadership behaviour.
- Appropriately apply communication, interviewing, problem specification and other analytical, personal and professional skills necessary to successfully and competently perform these interventions.
- Utilize a conceptual framework that allows them to effectively diagnose the problem situations they are likely to encounter in the course of their work, develop strategies, and to choose the most appropriate intervention.
- Assess the ethical bases of professional interventions, to make conscious ethically based choices, and to defend ethical positions.
- Work in learning teams, using effective communication skills (grounding, centering, attending, observing, suspending, listening, questioning, responding with understanding, and being assertive).
- Apply developmental and risk assessment theories in making informed decisions about professional interventions involving a variety of people.
- Apply the steps involved in the problem solving process and an understanding of how they apply to front line professional roles in the criminal justice system.
- Identify and discuss concepts of anger diffusion, negotiation, conciliation, and mediation techniques and strategies.
- Identify and discuss common ethical issues which arise in the context of professional interventions in the field of criminal justice.
Effective as of Fall 2008
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