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Course Summary:
How friendly can you be before you become a friend? What are the reasons to establish role boundaries in the legal field? What about the medical field?
This class looks at how impartiality and role boundaries are key in these two settings. The instructor will reflect on when it is justified to intervene as an interpreter, and what is the best way that an interpreter can help clients without overstepping their limits, thus turning into a “savior.” Find out how to determine if advocacy is appropriate in each situation and when to step aside. As we know, “It takes three to interpret.”
Here are a few topics you can expect to find in this presentation:
Review of codes of ethics
Review of the content of court and medical certification exams
Reflections on the limits of the interpreter role
Consequences of improper “advocacy” in the legal setting
About the Instructor:
Javier Castillo is president of Castillo Language Services, Inc. in Greenville, N.C. He is a federal, state court-certified, and certified medical interpreter, translator, consultant, trainer, and internationally recognized speaker. Since 2007, Javier has offered training workshops for court, medical, conference, and community interpreters across the world. Javier is a contract interpreter for the U.S. Department of State and has been qualified (and has testified) as an expert witness in federal and state cases on interpretation and translation issues. He has developed and taught training courses for: staff and contract interpreters for the U.S. Department of State Office of Language Services, legal education courses for members of the judiciary, as well as courses on working with interpreters in the legal field at Campbell Law School and the UNC School of Law. Javier is a frequent speaker at national and international conferences, he is the former President of the Carolina Association of Translators and Interpreters (CATI), former Chair of the National Association of Judiciary Interpreters and Translators (NAJIT), and head of the U.S. Chapter of the International Association of Professional Translators and Interpreters (IAPTI).
Approved for continuing education in: CA, PA, NC, KY (other state approvals pending; all state courts have approved for 3 CEUs unless otherwise indicated).
Previously approved for continuing education credit by the ATA (3.0 CEPs) and in the following states: CO, FL, KY, MA, MO, NM, NV, OK, OR, PA, TN, TX, UT, and WA.