Interviewing Skills for Violence Risk Assessment and Management
Presented by Kelly A. Watt, PhD
20 Hours | 20 CEs
This on-demand professional training program on Interviewing Skills for Violence Risk Assessment and Management is presented by Kelly A. Watt, PhD in partnership with Protect International Risk and Safety Services.
The quality of violence risk assessment and management plan depends heavily on the quality of the information on which it is based. Interviews are an essential component of the information base for a violence risk assessment and the information collected through an interview serve to inform both findings and opinions. At the same time, good interviewing skills can also serve as an important intervention strategy related to managing the risk of a perpetrator or increasing the safety of a victim.
This program focuses on reviewing foundational issues related to conducting a violence risk assessment and management interviews and provides a discussion of various styles, techniques, and questions that can be used to gather data during a clinical interview. The program also focuses on special issues that arise within this context including current mental status, mental disorder, violent thoughts, and malingering. Participants are given an opportunity to build their skills in this area through practice cases.
Learning Objectives
Upon completion of this program you will be able to:
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Describe the purpose of violence risk assessment and management interviews
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Describe how to determine timing & location of violence risk assessment and management interviews
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Describe the process of violence risk assessment and management interviews
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Describe the underlying assumptions and theory of violence risk assessment and management interviews
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Describe the preparation and structure of a violence risk assessment and management interviews
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Describe core components of obtaining consent & establishing rapport for violence risk assessment and management interviews
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Describe options related to recording violence risk assessment and management interviews
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Describe possible reactions to violence risk assessment and management interviews
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Describe the relevance and importance of mental disorder, violent thoughts, and malingering when conducting a violence risk assessment and management interview
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Describe assessment tactics and management tactics for mental disorder, violent thoughts, and malingering when conducting violence risk assessment and management interviews
Presented By
Threat Assessment Specialist at Protect International Kelly A. Watt, PhD
Dr. Kelly A. Watt obtained her BA in psychology at Simon Fraser and her MA and PhD in psychology from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She worked as a Psychology Fellow at Vancouver Coastal Health between 2008 and 2010. She currently works as Threat Assessment Specialist at Protect International and a Workplace Consultant at Competence Center Bergen. She is a member of the Mental Health, Law, and Policy Institute at Simon Fraser University. Her expertise is in the field of clinical- community-forensic psychology, with a special focus on violence risk assessment and management, victim safety planning, coordinated community responses, and threat assessment teams. She has co-authored more than 75 articles, chapters, reports, and presentations and is the co-author of manuals for risk assessment and safety planning, including the Risk for Sexual Violence Protocol (RSVP), and the Aid to Safety Assessment and Planning (ASAP). She is currently the editor of Intelligence, the newsletter of the Canadian, American, European, and Asia Pacific associations of threat assessment professionals. She also currently serves the chair of special interest group for the Canadian Association of Threat Assessment Professionals. She has provided over 120 invited presentations and workshops for mental health, law enforcement corrections, security, victim services, social services, human resources, occupational health and safety, and legal professionals in North America, Europe, Asia and Australia.
Collect Badges, Earn Certificates
This is a badge-earning program, which means it will help you earn a certificate that can be showcased on digital platforms like LinkedIn.
Curriculum
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Review Before Proceeding
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Lesson 1 Video
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Lesson 2 Video
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Sample Collateral Interview
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Lesson Quiz
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Lesson 3 Video
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Lesson Quiz
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Lesson 4 Video
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Lesson Quiz
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Lesson 5 Video
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Sample Evaluee Invitation
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Sample Collateral Script
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About this course
- $500.00
- 46 lessons
- 11 hours of video content
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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