Diversity Issues in Violence Risk Assessment: General Principles and Best Practice
Presented by Kelly A. Watt, PhD in partnership with Protect International Risk and Safety Services.
1 Hour | 1 CE
This on-demand professional training program on Diversity Issues in Violence Risk Assessment: General Principles and Best Practice is presented by Kelly A. Watt, Ph.D., in partnership with Protect International Risk and Safety Services.
Consideration of issues in diversity is a critical component of violence risk assessment and management that is often overlooked. There has been an intense debate in this field about whether established tools consider diversity issues and how these tools can best consider diversity issues.
This program provides an overview of some general principles and best practices that can be applied to consider diversity issues when conducting assessments. Additionally, the training discusses the suitability of these principles and the different approaches used for assessing and managing violence risk, including Unstructured Professional Judgment, Structured Professional Judgment, and Actuarial Risk Assessment. Finally, cases illustrate the importance and implications of the consideration of diversity issues when assessing and managing violence risk. The remaining programs in this series provide focused discussions regarding diversity issues related to youth and emerging adults, culture, gender, and sexuality.
Learning Objectives
Upon completion of this webinar you will be able to:
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Describe general principles that can be applied to the consideration of diversity issues when conducting assessments
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Describe best practices that can be applied to the consideration of diversity issues when conducting assessments
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Describe the suitability of these principles and practices when applied to different approaches in risk assessment and management
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Describe the general principles and best practices to violence risk assessment and management
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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