Interviewing Skills for Violence Risk Assessment and Management
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 serves to inform both findings and opinions. At the same time, good interviewing skills can also serve as an important intervention strategy related to managing a perpetrator's risk or increasing a victim's safety.
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.
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
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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 the 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 disorders, 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 obtained her BA in psychology at Simon Fraser and her MA and Ph.D. 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 ...
Curriculum
1. Overview
2. Foundational Issues
3. More on Where
4. More on How
5. Invitations Sample Case - BIRCH
6. Structure of the Interview
7. Consent
8. Rapport, Recording, and Reactions
9. Special Issues
10. Special Issues - Part 2
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Program Partner
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.
