Course Details
| Course Title | Procedural and Legal Considerations for Pre-Employment Psychological Screenings Reports for CDCR Correctional Officer Applicants |
| Date |
6/27/2025
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| Provider | Mindset Continuing Education |
| Phone | 916-488-6463 |
| Email | info@mindsetce.com |
| Website |
mindsetce.com
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| Location | Sacramento, CA |
| Credit Hours | 6 |
| Instructor(s) | David Cordosi, Psy.D. |
| Method of Instruction | Workshop/Seminar |
| Approving Agency | APA |
| Course Syllabus |
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Course Description
Description: This intermediate level course is designed to provide the information required for licensed and Peace Officer Standards and Training (POST) approved psychologists to conduct pre-employment psychological screenings of Correctional officer Applicants for California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitations (CDCR). This course draws upon state and federal guidelines established and incorporated in the POST manual and California government codes. This course will help psychologists to better understand the process involved in assessing CDCR applicants through the evaluation and integration of various data sources such as the interview, Background summaries, PHQ, objective tests of normal and abnormal personality traits, treatment records, and to utilize this information in making the suitability recommendation. This course will help psychologists to gain a better understand of the relevant laws, regulations, and unique psycho-legal considerations in conducting pre-employment psychological screenings of CDCR Correctional Officer applicants. In addition, this course will help with the fundamentals and procedural issues relevant to the written psychological pre-employment report. This includes the discussion and review of semi-structured templates and the provision of sample reports to highlight best practices in report writing techniques and strategies. The course will help psychologists to better understand how to procure data-driven evidence to write logical, and defensible reports, and how to approach the report write-ups from a forensic, defensible perspective. The course will discuss the dispute resolution process, SPB appeals process and lawsuits, as well as second opinion evaluations and how to best write psychological pre-employment reports anticipating these aforementioned factors.
Course Objectives
1._ 1.Describe the laws that
uniquely impact CDCR’s psychological selection process and correctional candidates.
Describe
the process for procuring information necessary to write suitable and
unsuitable reports that can be defended in disputes and due process proceedings,
such as SPB, other legal challenges.
Identify the practical
application of the ten POST dimensions as outlined in POST manual and
how these psychological dimensions apply to the selection process for Correctional Officer
Applicants.
Describe
how to integrate background data and other data from objective tests of normal
and abnormal personality traits into structuring pre-employment interview
questions.
Describe the rationale and
approach for mitigating divergent data for job relevant Correctional Officers
issues and
how to address divergent data in reports and being prepared to discuss with
reviewing professionals.
Discuss
strategies for eliciting information from applicants in various relevant life
domains as they relate to POST Dimensions and CDCR job relevant expectations
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