Diversity Issues in Violence Risk Assessment: Gender and Sexuality
Presented by: Caroline Logan, DPhil
1 Hour / 1 CE
On Demand | Self-Paced Professional Training
This on-demand professional training program on Diversity Issues in Violence Risk Assessments: Gender and Sexuality is presented by Caroline Logan, DPhil, in partnership with Protect International Risk and Safety Services.
In recent years, there has been a call for gender-responsive policies, procedures, and services to assess and manage violence risk among women. In general, women are less likely to commit violence than men and may commit violence for different reasons than men. These observations, coupled with the so-called distinction between gender-neutral and gender-responsive risk factors, inspired the development of gender-responsive assessment tools. Questions have also arisen regarding the generalizability of risk assessment procedures for use with non-heterosexual individuals. This program provides an overview of the research underlying gender-responsive risk factors, such as trauma history. It discusses how the nature, manifestation, and relevance of key risk and protective factors may differ between genders. Finally, illustrations regarding how to incorporate assessment and management issues relevant to violence risk as a function of gender and sexuality are discussed, with a focus on risk formulation and scenario planning.
Learning Objectives
Upon completion of this training, participants will be able to:
- 1 Describe an understanding of the prevalence rates of various forms of violence perpetrated by individuals with differing sexualities, gender expressions, and gender identities
- 2 Describe gender-neutral and gender-specific risk factors
- 3 Describe variables proposed as being gender-specific risk factors
- 4 Describe formulation and scenario planning activities to individualize a violence risk assessment for female evaluees
Presented By
Caroline Logan, DPhil Consultant Forensic Clinical Psychologist
Caroline Logan is a Consultant Forensic Clinical Psychologist. She has worked as a post-doctoral researcher and honorary senior lecturer at the Universities of Liverpool and Manchester in the UK, and as a scientist at Helse Bergen in Norway. She has worked as a lead Consultant Forensic Clinical Psychologist in high and medium secure forensic mental health services in the north of England, and as a consultant/contractor with law enforcement services in the UK for almost 30 years. Dr Logan has ongoing clinical and research interests in personality disorder (including psychopathy), risk, violent extremism, and forensic clinical interviewing, and she has a special interest in gender issues in the range of offending behaviour. She has published five books and over 70 articles on these subjects, including Violent Extremism: A Handbook of Risk Assessment and Management, co-edited with Randy Borum and Paul Gill, published in November 2023, and a second edition of Managing Clinical Risk: A Guide to Effective Practice, co-edited with Lorraine Johnstone, published in December 2023. She has commenced work on a new book on personality and risk.
We are proud to partner with
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.
CE Sponsorship Information
Palo Alto University, Continuing & Professional Studies (CONCEPT) is approved by, recognized by, or maintains sponsorship provider status with the following boards and agencies. We maintain responsibility for all content in our CE/CPD programs. For more information, visit here.
American Psychological Association (APA): Approved sponsor of continuing education for psychologists.
Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB): Approved continuing education provider (ACE program, Provider #1480), 11/22/2023–11/22/2026.
Canadian Psychological Association (CPA): Approved to sponsor continuing education for psychologists.
National Board for Certified Counselors (NBCC): Approved Continuing Education Provider (ACEP No. 7190).
Palo Alto University, Continuing and Professional Studies (CONCEPT) is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. Palo Alto University, Continuing and Professional Studies (CONCEPT) maintains responsibility for this program and its content. Palo Alto University, Continuing and Professional Studies (CONCEPT), is approved by the Canadian Psychological Association to offer continuing education for psychologists. Palo Alto University, Continuing and Professional Studies (CONCEPT), SW CPE is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed social workers #SW-0356 and the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed mental health counselors. #MHC-0073. Palo Alto University, Continuing and Professional Studies (CONCEPT) has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 6811. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. CONCEPT Professional Training, #1480, is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organizations, not individual courses, are approved as ACE providers. State and provincial regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for continuing education credit. CONCEPT Professional Training maintains responsibility for this course. ACE provider approval period: 11/22/23-11/22/26. Social workers completing this course receive (clinical or social work ethics) continuing education credits.