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Trainings Offered

Professional Trainings & Workshops

Forensic Behavioral Associates offers customized professional training and workshops. Training formats range from one-hour seminars, introductory presentations, continuing-education workshops, keynote presentations and half-day, full-day, and multi-day intensive institutes.

Programs can be customized for clinical teams, behavioral health organizations, social service agencies, healthcare systems, law enforcement, attorneys and legal organizations, universities, and other professional audiences.

Threat Assessment, Violence Risk & Safety

  • Threat Assessment & Violence Risk: Structured Professional Judgement in Practice (1.5-3 hours)

  • Duty to Warn & Protect: Tarasoff, Emerich, Clinical Practice, Ethics & Risk Management (1.5-4 hours)

  • Workplace Safety, Security & Risk Management (1-3 hours)

  • Social Worker Safety: Risk Recognition, Prevention & Response (3 hours)

  • Clinical Documentation: Best Practice, Compliance, Risk Management & Liability Prevention ( 1.5–7 hours)

  • Behavioral Health Documentation & Treatment Planning (3–6 hours

  • Behavioral Health Compliance & Regulatory Practice (1–3 hours)

  • Quality Assurance & Risk Management in Behavioral Health (1–3 hours)

  • HIPAA, Confidentiality & Behavioral Health Information (1–2 hours)

  • Behavioral Health Regulations & Regulatory Compliance (1–2 hours)

  • Whistleblowing, Ethics & Organizational Accountability (3 hours)

Clinical Documentation, Compliance & Risk Management

Social Work Ethics, Law & Professional Practice

  • Social Work Ethics: Applying the NASW Code of Ethics to Practice (1-4 hours)

  • Ethical Decision-Making in Clinical Social Work (1-3 hours)

  • Professional Boundaries & Ethical Practice (3-7 hours)

  • Ethics in Behavioral Health & Addiction Practice (1.5-3 hours)

  • Ethics in Healthcare Social Work (3 hours)

  • Pennsylvania Social Work Licensure, Regulation & Ethics (2-3 hours)

  • Ethics & Regulation in Clinical Supervision (3 hours)

  • Law, Ethics & Clinical Risk Management (1-4 hours)

DSM, Mental Health & Clinical Assessment

  • DSM Diagnosis: Changes, Applications & Clinical Implications (1–4 hours)

  • Understanding Mental Illness & Psychiatric Diagnosis (1–3 hours)

  • Mental Illness & Psychopharmacology for Law Enforcement and Other Non-Clinical Professionals (1.5–3 hours)

  • Severe Mental Illness: Recognition & Clinical Implications (1.5–3 hours)

  • Co-Occurring Mental Health & Substance Use Disorders (1.5–6 hours)

  • Co-Occurring Disorders: Assessment, Documentation & Treatment Planning (3–6 hours)

Clinical Practice & Treatment

  • Cognitive Behavioral Therapy: Principles & Clinical Application (3–6 hours)

  • Crisis Intervention in Behavioral Health & Residential Settings (2–3 hours)

  • Trauma, Flashbacks & Dissociative Disorders (2–3 hours)

  • Intimate Partner Violence: Assessment & Clinical Response (1–3 hours)

  • Clinical Practice with Co-Occurring Disorders (3–6 hours)

  • Responding to Child Sexual Abuse: The Child Advocacy Center Model (1.5–3 hours)

  • Child Sexual Abuse: Professional Assessment & Response (2–3 hours)

  • Adolescent Sexual Offending: Cognitive Distortions, Assessment & Intervention (2–3 hours)

  • Preparing Child-Welfare & Behavioral Health Professionals for Court (2–3 hours)

Child Abuse, Sexual Abuse & Forensic Child Welfare

  • Law Enforcement Interactions with Individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder (1–2 hours)

  • Police & Social Workers: Building Effective Community Partnerships (1.5–3 hours)

  • Behavioral Health Crisis Recognition & De-escalation (1.5–3 hours)

  • Mental Health, Social Work & Law Enforcement Collaboration (1.5–3 hours)

Law Enforcement, Crisis Intervention & Community Partnerships

Healthcare & Interprofessional Practice

  • Mental Health Issues in Healthcare Practice (1.5–3 hours)

  • Behavioral Health for Healthcare Professionals (1.5–3 hours)

  • Community Health, Public Health & Behavioral Health (3 hours)

  • Social Work Ethics in Healthcare (3 hours)

  • Mental Health Diagnosis for Non-Mental-Health Professionals (1–3 hours)

  • Social Work: Career, Roles & Professional Identity (1–2 hours)

  • Social Work Licensure, Regulation & Legislative Issues (1–3 hours)

  • Social Work & Criminal Justice (1.5–3 hours)

  • Recognizing & Confronting Misinformation/Fake News (3 hours)

  • Recognizing & Confronting Fascism: Implications for Social Work and Democratic Institutions (3 hours)

  • Social Work’s Historical Legacy & Contemporary Practice (3 hours)

Social Work Profession, Policy & Contemporary Issues

Education, Training & Online Instruction

  •  Online & Distance Education: Effective Virtual Teaching Environments (1.5–3 hours)

  • Teaching & Training Behavioral Health Professionals (1–3 hours)

  • Professional Education & Continuing Education Program Development (1–3 hours)

Dr. Andrews has extensive experience teaching undergraduate and graduate courses in social work, clinical practice, behavioral health, ethics, social policy, field education, and related areas. His teaching has included foundational and advanced clinical content, with particular emphasis on clinical assessment and diagnosis, mental health, cognitive behavioral therapy, ethics, social welfare and healthcare policy, substance use, intimate partner violence, and professional practice.

The following represents the range of college and university courses he has taught throughout his academic career. Courses offered across multiple semesters or institutions are listed only once.

College & University Courses Taught

Graduate Courses

  • • Advanced Clinical Practice: Cognitive Behavioral Therapy 

    • Assessment & Diagnosis 

    • Clinical Assessment & Diagnosis 

    • Clinical Skills: Psychopathology 

    • Ethics in Social Work Practice 

    • Field Education Seminar 

    • Foundations of Field Education I 

    • Foundations in Social Work Practice I

    • Healthcare Policy 

    • Human Behavior in Mental Health 

    • Human Behavior–Mental Health/DSM 

    • Intimate Partner Violence 

    • Introduction to Social Policy 

    • Mental Health Policy 

    • Models of Intervention 

    • Perspectives on Severe and Persistent Mental Illness

    • Social Policy & Health Care Delivery Systems

    • Social Welfare Policy

    • Substance Use and Social Work Practice

Undergraduate Courses

  • • Helping Relationship

    • Introduction to Social Work

    • Policy Analysis

    • Values and Ethics in Health and Human Development Professions