Behavioral Threat Assessment - Private Schools
This is a one day basic course designed to provide K-12 Private School Threat Assessment Teams with tools and resources to conduct and manage threat cases. The course covers the following:
Topics to be covered include:
What is a threat? What is concerning/aberrant behavior?
Rationale for the threat assessment approach to violence prevention
The principles of threat assessment
Understanding the Pathway to Violence
Mandated roles and responsibilities of threat assessment teams
The importance of reporting, reporting mechanisms, and overcoming barriers to reporting
Investigating reports of concerning/aberrant/threatening behaviors
Assessing and classifying threats
The nexus between threat assessment and suicide risk assessment
Information sharing and confidentiality
Understanding the goals of threat management and interventions
Updated group case exercise(s)
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