On November 21, 2024, as part of a day-long training on "Juvenile Capacity to Proceed" for juvenile court judges offered by the University of North Carolina's School of Government, Dr. Kruh presented a session on how forensic mental health evaluators conduct juvenile competency evaluations at a best practices level. This was part of a day-long session helping juvenile court judges to understand the nuances of North Carolina's new juvenile competency statute and the implementation of juvenile competency evaluation and remediation services. Dr. Kruh's session was offered as a simultaneous webinar for professionals at North Carolina's Division of Juvenile Justice throughout the state.

If you are interested in having Dr. Kruh, through National Youth Screening and Assessment Partners (NYSAP), provide a training to your group on the topic of juvenile competency to stand trial, or you are in need of a juvenile competency evaluation, please contact Dr. Kruh at [email protected].

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​On November 7, 2024, Ivan Kruh and Shoshanna Must presented a webinar to the International Forensic Psychiatry Lecture Series, hosted by McMaster University and St. Joseph’s Healthcare in Hamilton, ON. This series is a weekly education opportunity addressing engaging and innovative topics in forensic psychiatry reaching psychiatrists and allied professionals worldwide. The topic of the webinar was, “Current Assessment Approaches for Problematic Sexual Behavior in Adolescents.” Dr. Kruh discussed the field’s evolution from traditional risk assessment of Youth with Problematic Sexual Behavior to a “needs assessment” approach that focuses on considering protective factors and developing a narrative formulation that allows for scenario planning toward planning interventions. Dr. Must discussed the need to place these evaluations in a developmental and trauma-informed context, to attend to the role of exposure to pornography and other possible online harm, the role of sexual preoccupation, atypical sexual interests, attitudes supportive of sexual misbehavior, and victim awareness as key markers of risk, and the limited role of denial in these cases.