The Importance of Risk Communication: Long Reports
Presented by Brianne Layden, PhD
1 Hour | 1 CE
This on-demand professional training program on The Importance of Risk Communication: Long Reports is presented by Brianne Layden, PhD in partnership with Protect International Risk and Safety Services
Risk communication is one of the most important and most challenging strategies for ensuring that management strategies are implemented and violence is prevented. This program focuses on best practices related to the structure, content, and process of long reports. Case illustrations are used to highlight both promising practices and challenging issues when writing long reports (e.g., including all relevant elements, incorporating all virtues of communication). This program is appropriate for those new to the field of violence risk/threat assessment, as well as experienced professionals who are looking for an update on issues best practices related to risk communication.
Presented By
Threat Assessment Specialist at Protect International Risk and Safety Services Inc. Brianne Layden, PhD
Dr. Brianne Layden obtained BA, MA, and PhD degrees in psychology at Simon Fraser University.
She is a clinical and forensic psychologist specializing in the assessment and management of risk for violence toward the self and others. She works as a Threat Assessment Specialist at Protect International Risk and Safety Services Inc., is a contract psychologist with Forensic Psychiatric Services Commission of British Columbia, is an Adjunct Professor of Psychology at Simon Fraser University, and is the associate editor of Intelligence, an e-newsletter that keeps professionals up to date about recent advances in threat assessment around the globe. She also serves as a Member-at-Large for the International Association of Forensic Mental Health Services.
Her expertise involves the assessment and management of self-directed violence and personality disorders, particularly borderline personality disorder, and intersecting risks (e.g., general and self-directed violence). She has provided training workshops and invited presentations for forensic mental health, law enforcement, corrections, security, victim services and higher education, and has co-authored over 50 articles and conference presentations. She is currently in the process of developing structured professional judgment tools for the assessment and management of self-directed violence.
Learning Objectives
Upon completion of this program you will be able to:
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Describe basic elements and core virtues related to long reports
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Describe promising practices and challenging issues related to writing long reports
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.
