1 Hour / 1 CE

On Demand | Self-Paced Professional Training

This on-demand professional training program on Workplace Violence Prevention and Intervention Programs: Teams is presented by Kelly A. Watts, PhD, in partnership with Protect International Risk and Safety Services.

Threat assessment teams are highly recommended when assessing and managing violence as a means of maximizing the skills and knowledge of team members, facilitating information sharing within and outside teams, and improving collaborative case management. 

The establishment of these teams is consistent with Workplace Violence Prevention and Intervention Standards published by ASIS International (ASIS) and the Society for Human Resources Management (SHRM) which recommend taking a multidisciplinary approach to assess and manage risk for workplace violence. 

Specifically, these standards encourage workplaces to develop and implement teams for assessing and managing risk for workplace violence when they have: (1) sufficiently high rates of violence and high numbers of employees and (2) adequate resources, appropriate training, and relevant experience. 

This program provides an overview of recommended goals, structures, processes, and outcomes of threat assessment teams that are supported by research and practice. Consideration is given to how to apply these recommended practices to diverse sectors (e.g., health, education, law enforcement, and corporate).

Learning Objectives

Upon completion of this training, participants will be able to:

  • 1 Describe the reasoning for threat assessment teams
  • 2 Describe recommended goals, structures, processes, and outcomes of threat assessment teams
  • 3 Describe recommended practices to own sector-based specific strengths and needs

  • Intended Audience

    This training is intended for mental health professionals who conduct or plan to conduct forensic evaluations related to workplace violence. It is relevant for those specializing in forensic mental health, occupational safety, or crisis management, as well as clinicians interested in expanding their practice to include forensic evaluation in the context of workplace violence.


    Examples of Relevant Professionals:
    • Mental Health Professionals
    • Forensic Psychologists
    • Forensic Psychiatrists
    • Clinical Social Workers
    • Occupational Health Psychologists
    • Employee Assistance Program (EAP) Clinicians
    • Crisis Intervention Specialists
    • Risk Assessment Consultants

  • Experience Level

    This training is appropriate for licensed and pre-licensed mental health professionals at various stages of experience with threat assessment teams and workplace violence prevention.

    • Beginner: Participants are new to threat assessment teams and seek foundational knowledge about their goals, structures, processes, and outcomes.

    • Intermediate: Participants have some experience with threat assessment or workplace violence prevention and are looking to deepen their understanding of multidisciplinary team practices and sector-specific applications.

    • Advanced: Participants have extensive experience in threat assessment or related fields and aim to refine their skills in leading teams, implementing best practices, and addressing complex, sector-specific challenges.

  • Practice Setting

    Practitioners work in organizational and forensic settings that assess and manage workplace risk through multidisciplinary threat assessment teams using structured, research-supported processes. Aligned with ASIS/SHRM standards, they are embedded in or consult to policy-driven systems—often larger workplaces with sufficient resources and employee populations—to evaluate threats, coordinate information sharing, and guide collaborative case management.


    Examples of Practice Settings:
    • Corporate workplaces and large employers
    • Healthcare systems and hospitals
    • Higher education institutions
    • K–12 school districts
    • Government agencies and public sector workplaces
    • Law enforcement and public safety organizations
    • Courts, probation, and correctional settings
    • Employee Assistance Program providers
    • Occupational health clinics and integrated primary care
    • Risk management and security consulting firms

Presented By

Kelly A. Watt, PhD Threat Assessment Specialist at Protect International

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.

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Protect International Risk and Safety Services

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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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. 

  1. American Psychological Association (APA): Approved sponsor of continuing education for psychologists.

  2. Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB): Approved continuing education provider (ACE program, Provider #1480), 11/22/2023–11/22/2026.

  3. Canadian Psychological Association (CPA): Approved to sponsor continuing education for psychologists.

  4. 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.