MENTAL ILLNESS & CRIMINAL PROCEDURE: Problems, Progress, and Room for Reform

Student research superivised by Professor Ian P. Farrell, University of Denver Sturm College of Law 

Juris Doctor - May 2016

Sturm College of Law

Completed Coursework - Required:

• Tort Law
• Civil Procedure
• Contract Law
• Lawyering Process - Legal Writing
• Criminal Law
• Property Law
• Constitutional Law
• Evidence
• Legal Profession
• Administrative Law

Completed Coursework - Elective & Specialization:

• Family Law
• Advanced Family Law - Divorce Emphasis
• Alternative Dispute Resolution
• Representing the Marijuana Client
• Criminal Procedure
• Advanced Criminal Procedure
• Psychiatry and the Law
• Law & Neuroscience
• Lobbying Law
• Death Penalty Jurisprudence
• Street Law 
• Colorado Legal Research
• Problem Solving Courts
• Specialty Courts
• World Judicial Systems
• Legal Analysis Strategies 

Master of Arts, Forensic Psychology - June 2016

Graduate School of Professional Psychology

Completed Coursework:

• Practicum I
• Statistics
• Clinical Interviewing
• Psychopathology and Diagnosis
• Issues in Forensic Psychology
• Practicum II
• Issues in Forensic Psychology II - Correctional Mental Health
• Conflict Resolution
• Research Methods
• Psychology of Criminal Behavio
• Trauma and Crisis Intervention
• Practicum III
• Group Interventions
• Issues in Forensic Psychology III
• Issues in Measurement
• Career Counseling
• Cognitive Assessment
• Cognitive Behavioral Interventions
• Practicum IV: Personality Theories
• Ethics in Forensic Psychology
• Evaluation and Treatment of the Juvenile Offender
• Sociocultural Issues in Forensic Psychology
• Practicum V
• Personality Assessment: Self Report
• Treatment and Evaluation of the Adult Offender
• Lifespan Development
• Substance Abuse Counseling
• Mental Health Law
• Practicum VI
• Criminal Evaluations
• Personality Assessment: Projective

Graduating Class of 2013

BA Socio-Psychology of Crime, Sociology Minor

Self-designed major under the supervision of and with approval by the Psychology Department and Academic Council

Coursework Specialization:

• Victimless Crimes
• Foundations of Criminal Justice
• Sociology of Deviant Behavior
• Child Abuse
• Abuse of the Disabled
• Children and Trauma
• Introduction to Social Work
• Physiology of Drugs
• Forensics
• Abnormal Psychology
• Physiological Psychology
• Forensic Psychology

Campus Involvement:

• International Fraternity of Delta Delta Delta - Vice President of Membership
• College Republicans
• National Society for Leadership and Success