Updates

bookmark_borderDr. King and Sana Vora published a summary of all of APA’s amicus briefs

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Dr. King and his doctoral student mentee, Sana Vora, published an entry in the American Psychology-Law Society (AP-LS) News Legal Update column, titled Sixty Years of American Psychological Association Amicus Curiae Briefs: 1962 to 2022.

The entry summarizes the 196 amicus (“friend of court”) briefs, 1 letter in support of certiorari (one route by which a higher court may review the decision of a lower court), and 1 letter in support of petition for review that the American Psychological Association (APA) had filed with a range of courts, beginning in 1962 and up through April 2022.

Dr. King and Ms. Vora have made available for download the data set that they compiled for the project, for use and potential updating in the future by others.

The entry can be read here and the data set is available here.

bookmark_borderDr. King chaired a symposium at the 2022 IAFMHS Conference

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Dr. King chaired a symposium, presented a symposium paper, and co-authored another symposium paper at the 2022 International Association of Forensic Mental Health Services (IAFMHS) Conference in Berlin, Germany, held June 14–16, 2022.

The symposium was titled The Current Variability of Insanity Approaches Across the United States and Relative to Europe.

Dr. King was the first author of the symposium paper titled 51+ “Little Countries”: Current Insanity Approaches Across United States Jurisdictions.

He also was a co-author of the symposium paper titled Recent Insanity Decisions by the Supreme Court of the United States: M’Naghten is Not the Floor.

Other contributors to the symposium were as follows: Dr. Ira Packer (University of Massachusetts Medical School); Ms. Shelby Taylor (law student at University of Alabama School of Law); Ms. Ivysmeralys Morales (former MA student at Montclair State University and current RA in Dr. King’s lab); Dr. Danielle Rynczak (University of Massachusetts Medical School); Dr. Lauren Kois (University of Alabama); Dr. Michiel van der Wolf (Universiteit Leiden in the Netherlands); and Dr. Hjalmar van Marle (Erasmus University Medical Center in the Netherlands).

bookmark_borderDrs. King and Morgan receive grant from the American Psychology–Law Society

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Dr. King and his Co-Principal Investigator (Co-PI), Dr. Robert Morgan of Southern Illinois University, were awarded a grant (Research to Enhance the Impact and Diversification of Psychology and Law Research) from the American Psychology–Law Society (AP-LS), Division 41 of the American Psychological Association (APA) for their proposal, Serious Video Game Technology for Correctional Assessment and Treatment: Project Choices.

Project Choices is a serious video game technology for correctional assessment and treatment, focused on decision-making circa reentry to the community from incarceration. It incorporates a bibliotherapy form of the evidence-based cognitive behavioral treatment program for justice-involved persons developed by Dr. Morgan and his colleagues, Changing Lives and Changing Outcomes (CLCO).

The funded project has several aims.

  • Expand the number of scenarios featured in the adult version of Project Choices.
  • Make more user-friendly the export of player performance metrics for Project Choices.
  • Adapt Project Choices into a version for justice-involved youth.
  • Ready Project Choices and Project Choices: Youth Version for dissemination to the field.
  • Amass materials for an evaluation of the assessment utility of the Project Choices technology.

bookmark_borderJill Del Pozzo accepted postdoctoral fellowship offer

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Jill Del Pozzo, Dr. King’s first doctoral mentee who is currently completing her predoctoral internship in health service psychology at the VA New Jersey Health Care System, accepted a postdoctoral fellowship in clinical neuropsychology and rehabilitation research at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine and the Brain Injury Research Center.