Risk Formulation
Presented by Kelly A. Watt, Ph.D. in partnership with Protect International Risk and Safety Services.
1 Hour | 1 CE
This on-demand professional training program on Risk Formulation is presented by Kelly A. Watt, Ph.D., in partnership with Protect International Risk and Safety Services.
Risk formulation is a critical step for guiding decision-making when assessing and managing violence risk. If we do not understand why someone engaged in violence in the past, it is difficult, if not impossible, to prevent that individual from engaging in future violence. Although the formulation process is considered a core competence in the practice of mental health, including forensic mental health, there are few explicit clinical guidelines for this skill and very little research evaluating this skill.
This program provides an overview of various approaches to formulation, focusing on a strategy of formulation that was explicitly developed for understanding the perpetuation of past violence. It does so by providing a structure for evaluating motivators, disinhibitors, and destabilizers for past violence. This approach to formulation is informed by decision theory and is used routinely in the Structured Professional Judgment model of violence risk assessment.
Learning Objectives
Upon completion of this program you will be able to:
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Describe one of core steps in Structured Professional Judgment
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Describe the nature and implications of formulation
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Describe formulation for understanding perpetration of past violence
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Describe motivators, disinhibitors and destabilizers for past violence
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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