Threat Assessment Team Challenges
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 Threat Assessment Team Challenges is presented by Kelly A. Watt, Ph.D., in partnership with Protect International Risk and Safety Services.
Threat assessment teams involve collaboration among professionals – often from multiple disciplines – who assess and manage cases involving concerns about violence risk. This program focuses on challenges faced by threat assessment teams in their work due to the problematic nature of their work and the diverse composition of their membership. Specifically, this program discusses three significant challenges based on feedback from over 700 team members from workplaces across Canada that may have implications for how they operate and what they accomplish. These challenges include: 1) the teams’ mandate (behavioral problems generally versus violence risk specifically, violence to employees versus violence by employees, etc.); 2) who “owns” the team (human resources, health, and safety, security, etc.); and 3) who should serve on the team (general counsel, mental health professionals, union representatives, etc.). Possible solutions to these significant challenges are also proposed supported by empirical research, best practice, and the law.
Learning Objectives
Upon completion of this program you will be able to:
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Describe the structure and process of threat assessment teams
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Describe three major challenges faced by threat assessment teams
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Describe possible solutions to these challenges supported by research, practice, and the law
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.
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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