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:

  • Describe the purpose of violence risk assessment and management interviews

  • Describe how to determine timing & location of violence risk assessment and management interviews

  • Describe the process of violence risk assessment and management interviews

  • Describe the underlying assumptions and theory of violence risk assessment and management interviews

  • Describe the preparation and structure of a violence risk assessment and management interviews

  • Describe core components of obtaining consent & establishing rapport for violence risk assessment and management interviews

  • Describe options related to recording violence risk assessment and management interviews

  • Describe possible reactions to violence risk assessment and management interviews

  • Describe the relevance and importance of mental disorder, violent thoughts, and malingering when conducting a violence risk assessment and management interview

  • Describe assessment tactics and management tactics for mental disorder, violent thoughts, and malingering when conducting violence risk assessment and management interviews

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.

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  • Intended Audience

    This on-demand professional training program is intended for mental health and other allied professionals.

  • Experience Level

    This on-demand professional training program is appropriate for beginner, intermediate, and advanced level clinicians.

  • CE / CPD Credit

    APA, ASWB, CPA, NBCC Click here for state and other regional board approvals.

Curriculum

    1. Review Before Proceeding

    1. Lesson 1 Video

    1. Lesson 2 Video

    2. Sample Collateral Interview

    3. Lesson Quiz

    1. Lesson 3 Video

    2. Lesson Quiz

    1. Lesson 4 Video

    2. Lesson Quiz

    1. Lesson 5 Video

    2. Sample Evaluee Invitation

    3. Sample Collateral Script

About this course

  • $500.00
  • 45 lessons
  • 11 hours of video content

Develop a Specialty Area of Practice

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  • CE Credit

    Earn CE credit for meaningful professional training that will elevate your practice

  • Convenience & Flexibility

    Learn at your own pace, from wherever you might be!

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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