An Introduction to Violence Risk / Threat Assessment: Initial Versus Comprehensive Assessment
Presented by Kelly Watt, PhD. in partnership with Protect International Risk and Safety Services.
1 Hour | 1 CE
This on-demand program on An Introduction to Violence Risk/Threat Assessment: Initial Versus Comprehensive Assessment is presented by Kelly A. Watt, PhD in partnership with Protect International Risk and Safety Services.
Leading authorities, including in the field of violence risk/threat assessment, distinguish between initial versus comprehensive assessments of risk. In this program, Dr. Watt helps violence risk/threat assessment professionals to understand the distinction, explain it to stakeholders, and use it to more effectively deliver services and manage liability. She also provides a high-level overview of different approaches to conducting initial risk assessments, which are the type of risk assessments most often conducted by violence risk/threat assessment professionals.
Learning Objectives
Upon completion of this program you will be able to:
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Describe initial versus comprehensive assessments of violence risk
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Describe the distinction between initial versus comprehensive assessments of violence risk to more effectively deliver services and manage liability
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Describe an overview of the different approaches to conducting initial risk assessments
Presented By
Kelly A. Watt, PhD
Dr. Kelly A. Watt works as a Threat Assessment Specialist at Protect International and is a member of the Mental Health, Law, and Policy Institute at Simon Fraser University in Canada. Dr. Watt is the editor of the Intelligence newsletter which is disseminated on behalf of threat assessment professional associations in the United States, Canada, Europe and Asia Pacific, and that provides recent advances in research, practice, and the law related to threat assessment around the globe.
Protect International Risk and Safety Services
We are proud to partner with Protect International Risk and Safety Services for this training. Protect International's threat assessment professionals are internationally recognized experts that have developed some of the world's most widely used and best-validated threat assessment tools. Protect International provides services and products related to violence risk assessment and management, also known as threat assessment and management. Protect International services and products include threat assessment training and support, case assessment and management, legal consultation, policy review and development, and program evaluation and research; along with threat assessment manuals, worksheets, licenses, and software applications for those tools.
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