ABPPSP: Threat Assessment & Mass Casualty Operational Support
Presented by: Kris Mohandie, PhD, ABPP
3.5 Hours / 3.5 CEs
On Demand | Self-Paced Professional Training
This on-demand professional training program on Threat Assessment and Mass Casualty Operational Support is presented by Kris Mohandie, PhD, ABPP, in partnership with The American Board of Police and Public Safety Psychology (ABPPSP).
Psychologists providing support for law enforcement and other public safety operations is an exciting, challenging, and demanding police and public safety psychology domain. The program focuses on threat assessment and threat management and the varied contexts that it occurs, including the role of the psychologist in threat assessment (e.g., workplace and school threats, terrorist and stalking assessment); threat sources, and fact patterns; principles of threat assessment; methods and processes to identify, assess, and manage risk; scholarly and scientific research relevant to threat assessment across several contexts, and clinical judgment versus actuarial versus structured professional judgment.
Learning Objectives
Upon completion of this training, participants will be able to:
- 1 Describe the principles of threat assessment and management
- 2 Describe at least five warning signs that violence is probable
- 3 Describe processes to identify, assess, and manage risk
Presented By
Kris Mohandie, PhD., ABPP
Dr. Kris Mohandie is a clinical, police, and forensic psychologist with over thirty years of experience in the assessment and management of violent behavior. He has extensive experience in the arena of human and natural trauma. He is licensed as a psychologist in multiple states including California, Alaska, New York, Nevada, Utah, Louisiana, Arkansas, Maryland, Florida, and Hawaii. He is Board Certified by the American Board of Professional Psychology (ABPP) in Police and Public Safety Psychology. He has consulted in field responses and case investigations for local, state, and federal law enforcement organizations, including LAPD’s Threat Management Unit, SWAT/Crisis Negotiation Team, and the FBI’s Behavioral Analysis Program. He responded on-scene to the O.J. Simpson barricade and the North Hollywood Bank Robbery Shootout. Dr. Mohandie has consulted to, and testified in numerous extreme violence and homicide cases, including single, mass, and serial homicide cases. Dr. Mohandie, along with several others, has participated in two scientific studies of mass murder, including those perpetrated by adults and adolescents. He has several coauthored chapters which appear in the 2014 book, International Handbook of Threat Assessment, and two coauthored chapters in its 2021 second edition. Dr. Mohandie has conducted extensive trial pending and prison interviews of violent offenders, including a number of stalkers, hostage takers, workplace and school violence perpetrators, serial, and multiple murderers. Dr. Mohandie’s work has been featured in the New York Times, USA Today, and LA Times, and he has appeared in the news programs of CNN, ABC, CBS, NBC, BBC, and Fox, as well as programs on Investigative Discovery, A&E, History, and the Discovery Channel. He was the host and a producer on the Investigative Discovery show, Most Evil, and the 2018 series Breaking Homicide. His true crime book, Evil Thoughts: Wicked Deeds was released November 5, 2019. He regularly consults on matters of risk and threat management to the private and public sector, including the entertainment industry.
Training Outline
Key topics covered in this training include:
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Delineating the different impacts of dealing with a natural disaster casualty event versus a human-generated event
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The identification of the impacted individuals to include the first and second responders
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The trauma contamination process, as well as the accompanying trauma symptoms
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The psychologists’ roles, from consultation to psychological Incident Command
We are proud to partner with
American Board of Police and Public Safety Psychology (ABPPSP)
We are proud to partner with The American Board of Police and Public Safety Psychology (ABPPSP) for this training. ABPPSP became a fully affiliated specialty board of the American Board of Professional Psychology (ABPP) on October 21, 2011. Police and Public Safety Psychology is concerned with assisting law enforcement and other public safety personnel and agencies in carrying out their missions and societal functions with optimal effectiveness, safety, health, and conformity to laws and ethics. It consists of the application of the science and profession of psychology in four primary domains of practice: assessment, clinical intervention, operational support, and organizational consultation.
CE Sponsorship Information
Palo Alto University, Continuing & Professional Studies (CONCEPT) is approved by, recognized by, or maintains sponsorship provider status with the following boards and agencies. We maintain responsibility for all content in our CE/CPD programs. For more information, visit here.
American Psychological Association (APA): Approved sponsor of continuing education for psychologists.
Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB): Approved continuing education provider (ACE program, Provider #1480), 11/22/2023–11/22/2026.
Canadian Psychological Association (CPA): Approved to sponsor continuing education for psychologists.
National Board for Certified Counselors (NBCC): Approved Continuing Education Provider (ACEP No. 7190).
Palo Alto University, Continuing and Professional Studies (CONCEPT) is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. Palo Alto University, Continuing and Professional Studies (CONCEPT) maintains responsibility for this program and its content. Palo Alto University, Continuing and Professional Studies (CONCEPT), is approved by the Canadian Psychological Association to offer continuing education for psychologists. Palo Alto University, Continuing and Professional Studies (CONCEPT), SW CPE is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed social workers #SW-0356 and the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed mental health counselors. #MHC-0073. Palo Alto University, Continuing and Professional Studies (CONCEPT) has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 6811. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. CONCEPT Professional Training, #1480, is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organizations, not individual courses, are approved as ACE providers. State and provincial regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for continuing education credit. CONCEPT Professional Training maintains responsibility for this course. ACE provider approval period: 11/22/23-11/22/26. Social workers completing this course receive (clinical or social work ethics) continuing education credits.