Psychology of School Threat Assessments

During this training, participants will:

• 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).