Naro and Cyber...thank you much for the very useful information. I have followed up on a request to a colleague in Orlando, Cyber , and they in fact have a freely available outline for their required course....I wish I had thought of that--grateful that you did. Now to find some free (or very cheap) instructors! lol<br><br>Naro--All of the competent experts I have used in the context of commitment or sentencing proceedings seem to agree that future dangerousness is impossible to predict by any means other than past conduct. I actually had one (very colorful ) psychologist put it as "The only way you know what a jackass is going to do in the future is determine who it has kicked in the past." I guess I was hoping that among the "general" population where you don't have a track record (hopefully anyway) there might be some quick, dirty and accurate scale. As cynical as it sounds, I am thinking it might be worth using a flawed tool simply to show the effort in the event of the unthinkable. (I may be talking myself out of this whole thing). I note you are a wilderness hunter. My best friend is also a psychiatrist and hunts annually in Alaska for Moose. Wonderful meat. I am wondering if this is a shrink thing? lol<br><br>If you are testifying about risk of future danger, I assume you are called for sentencing and/or commitment proceedings? And if you testify that there is no valid test, you must be on the side of truth and justice (the prosecution of course). D o you do any NGI work? I am preparing a trial where the defendant is alleging a dissociate disorder all the way to the extent of MPD--the first for me, where they are actually claiming MPD. I am fascinated but OVERWHELMED by the extent of the dispute that seems to be raging in the psychological community about the viability of the defense (and even the validity of the disease). There seem to be lot of professionals out there that think that Sybil must have been faking! Not sure I am ever going to get it sorted out.<br><br>At any rate...Thanks to you guys for the help....<br><br>Take good care....Robb<br><br> <br>