CE Course: Assessing Risk of Juvenile and Young Adult Violence

Description

Humintell is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. Humintell maintains responsibility for this program and its content. Including instruction, readings, and review this course provides 3.5 hours of continuing education (3.5 CE credits) for psychologists.

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Course Description

There has been a swell of concern among the public and among professionals working in schools, juvenile justice, law enforcement and behavioral health services about violent behavior among children and adolescents.

There is a need to advance the practice of assessing violence risk in juveniles to parallel the progress made in assessing adults, and to develop a systematic and thoughtful approach to assessing situations where an adolescent may come to official attention because of some threatening or otherwise inappropriate communication or behavior of concern.

This presentation addresses precisely those issues and will review recent trends in youth violence, summarize and distill twenty years of research on violence risk factors in youth, and discuss principles for conducting an effective, developmentally-informed risk assessment for youth including the use of structured assessment instruments.

Special attention will be given to distinguishing between assessments of risk for general violence and those for targeted violence. The training will also help participants to understand the current “state of the science” in providing effective interventions for youth violence .

Learning Objectives

1. Define types of aggression in youth
2. Identify risk factors for violence in adolescents
3. Describe current approaches to assess risk for targeted violence
4. Identify principles for conducting an effective threat assessment

Additional Information

Format and Length:

Recorded video format (non-interactive). Total running time 230 minutes.

Instructional Level:

Introductory APA approved continuing education course for psychologists, psychiatrists, and mental health professionals.

Completion Requirements:

To obtain your CE certificate, you must progress through all course segments and readings, and obtain a score of 80% or higher on a post-test. Users will have a maximum of 3 attempts to complete the post-test at 80% proficiency.

Post Test and Course Evaluation:

After watching course video recording, the post-test will be available to complete, along the course evaluation.

Who Should Attend:

Psychologists, counselors, masters or doctoral level clinical social workers, and marriage and family therapists.

Financial Support Statement:

Humintell pays course presenters for their teaching. There is no other financial support for this course.

Conflict of Interest Statement:

There is no potential conflict of interest or outside commercial support for this course.

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Contact Information:

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