Psychology of School Threat Assessments

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Add to Calendar 2019-11-12 08:30:00 2019-11-12 08:30:00 Psychology of School Threat Assessments Examine the psychological and behavioral aspects of threat assessment and management. Gain understanding in normal versus abnormal child and adolescent behaviors, identifying red-flags, why threats are made, and how threats can be managed along a pathway toward violence (both short and long-term) to ensure personnel safety. Review common problems in school threat assessment and propose solutions. Learn multidisciplinary threat assessment and management strategies and explore empirically based youth-violence risk and protective factors. Review assessment tools for use in the school system. Participate in simulated threat assessments and management with followup discussion (hotwash). Upon completion of this training, participants will be able to: Implement a multidisciplinary threat assessment and management plan; Identify normal versus abnormal childhood behavior and the nuances related to increasing threat; Determine accurate youth violence risk and protective factors; Diagnose problems within your own threat assessment and management protocols; and Leverage new assessment tools within the school system. The conference dates are the following: November 12, 2019 - 8:30am to 4:30pm EST November 13, 2019 - 8:30am to 5:00pm EST Registration: Register for the in-person event. Huntsville, AL Huntsville, AL noreply@air.org America/New_York public

Examined the psychological and behavioral aspects of threat assessment and management. Gained understanding in normal versus abnormal child and adolescent behaviors, identified red-flags, why threats are made, and how threats can be managed along a pathway toward violence (both short and long-term) to ensure personnel safety. Reviewed common problems in school threat assessment and propose solutions. Learned multidisciplinary threat assessment and management strategies and explored empirically based youth-violence risk and protective factors. Reviewed assessment tools for use in the school system. Participated in simulated threat assessments and management with followup discussion (hotwash).

Upon completion of this training, participants were able to:

  • Implement a multidisciplinary threat assessment and management plan;
  • Identify normal versus abnormal childhood behavior and the nuances related to increasing threat;
  • Determine accurate youth violence risk and protective factors;
  • Diagnose problems within your own threat assessment and management protocols; and
  • Leverage new assessment tools within the school system.

The conference dates are the following:

  • November 12, 2019 - 8:30am to 4:30pm EST
  • November 13, 2019 - 8:30am to 5:00pm EST

Registration: Register for the in-person event.

 

 

 

 


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