Classification of Instructional Programs (CIP) Canada 2011

• 42. - Psychology
• 42.28 - Clinical, counselling and applied psychology

42.2812 - Forensic psychology

This instructional program class comprises any program that prepares individuals to apply clinical, counselling, school, and neuropsychology skills to the provision of psychological services within the criminal justice and civil legal systems, including consultation, assessment, and interventions. These programs include courses in the epidemiology of mental/behavioural disorders, risk factors for violence and criminality, profiling and patterning, psychological testing, prediction and intervention measurement, forensic assessment, criminal and civil law and procedures, secure environments, forensic treatment and intervention skills, and professional standards and ethics.

• Illustrative example(s)

  • criminal psychology
  • forensic psychology
  • psychocriminology

• Exclusion(s)

  • criminal science(43.0111)
  • criminology(45.0401)
  • forensic pathology - residency(60.0517)
  • forensic science(43.0106)
  • social psychology(42.2707)