Deception and Detection: Skills and Strategies to Read Behavior and Elicit Truthful Information

9:00am to 10:30am EST

LIVE WEBINAR

Presenter: Mark G Frank, Ph.D.

NASW-NYS or NASW-NYC Members: $15

NASW Other Chapter Member: $25

Non-Members: $35

NASW-NYS Student and Transitional Members: FREE

This workshop is approved for 1.5 continuing education credit hours for licensed social workers, licensed mental health counselors, licensed marriage and family therapists and licensed psychologists

Please ensure that you register and/or join on Zoom with the name you would like to appear on your certificate.

Workshop Description
This presentation will discuss the science behind what happens when someone lies, how those behaviors manifest themselves, and what implications that has for the lie catcher in forensic contexts. The presentation will feature video examples and participants will have an opportunity to test their skills at spotting lies. In addition, the presenter will describe tips for interviewing to maximize obtaining accurate information from interviewees. The presentation will provide the opportunity for participants to improve their ability to read behavior through the combination of understanding human deception, emotion, cognition, and expression process, in conjunction with interview strategies designed to elicit as much truthful information as possible.

Learning Objectives

After the completion of this webinar, participants will be able to:

• Describe the voluntary and involuntary nature of nonverbal communication
• Recognize the signs of human emotion in the face & body
• Recognize the signs of human cognition in the voice & body
• Recognize behavioral anomalies
• Describe the elements of rapport and how they help interviewing and deception detection

This workshop is approved for 1.5 continuing education credit hours.

NASW-NYS is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed social workers (Provider ID #0014), licensed mental health counselors (Provider ID #MHC-0053), licensed marriage and family therapists (Provider ID #MFT-0037) and licensed psychologists (Provider ID #PSY-0088).

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Presenter:

Mark G. Frank is a professor in the Communication Department at the University at Buffalo, State University of New York, where he served as chair from 2015-2021. He was born and raised in Buffalo, and is a UB Alumnus (Psychology) and is currently the Faculty Athletic Representative.  Dr. Frank received his Ph.D. in Social Psychology from Cornell University in 1989.  Afterward he received a National Research Service Award from the National Institute of Mental Health to do postdoctoral research in the Psychiatry Department at the University of California at San Francisco Medical School.  In 1992 he joined the School of Psychology at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia, where he worked for 4 years until he joined the Communication Department at Rutgers University in New Jersey.  In 2005 he went full circle and accepted a position offered by the University of Buffalo Communication Department, where he created and directs the Communication Science Center.  He has published numerous research papers on facial expressions, emotion, interpersonal deception, and also violence in extremist groups, and in 2016 won the SUNY Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Scholarship and Creative Activities.  He has had research funding from The National Science Foundation, US Department of Homeland Security, and the US Department of Defense to examine deception and hidden emotion behaviors in checkpoint, law enforcement, and counter-terrorism situations, as well as aggression in extremist groups.  He is also the co-developer of a patented automated computer system to read facial expressions, for which he won a Visionary Innovator Award from the University at Buffalo. He has used these findings to lecture, consult with and train virtually all US Federal Law Enforcement and Intelligence Agencies, as well as local/state and select foreign democratic countries.  He is also one of the original members of the FBI Behavioral Science Unit’s Terrorism Research and Analysis Project.  He has presented briefings on deception and counter-terrorism to the US Congress as well as the US National Academies of Sciences.  He has also given workshops to the US Federal Judiciary, various state Courts, and foreign judges and magistrates. He was selected to present 12 recorded lectures for the Great Courses series called Understanding Nonverbal Communication, and was recently a featured expert on the Curiosity Stream 6-part series called Inside the mind of a con artist. Finally, he has appeared in over 100 print, radio, and television appearances to talk about his work, including The New Yorker Magazine, Time Magazine, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Smithsonian, CBS Evening News, CNN, Fox News Channel, CNBC, National Public Radio, The Learning Channel, the Discovery Channel, the Oprah Show, the CBC, BBC, London Weekend Television, the Australian Today Show, the Sydney Morning Herald, and ABC Radio National, among others.