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  • Intermediate Microexpression Training

    $64.99

    Online Microexpression Training

    MiX™ Professional is intermediate microexpression training– perfect for those who have already completed MiX Enhanced who are interested in further learning how to detect microexpressions.

    Developed by renowned expert, Dr. David Matsumoto

     

    Description

    MiX™ Professional will help you:

    • Read microexpressions in others
    • Read basic emotions in others
    • Identify key characteristics of the 7 basic emotions
    • See how others really feel and label it quickly and accurately

    This comprehensive online training will teach you how to recognize microexpressions – facial expressions of emotion that occur when someone tries to conceal or repress how they are feeling. Even though they last only a fraction of a second, anyone can learn to recognize them.


    MiX™ Professional consists of:

    • An Expression Basics section which features a brief overview of facial expressions such as: the functions of emotions, emotions as reactions to events, and the difference between spontaneous and deliberate emotions
    • 7 brand new instructional and review videos from the frontal view that teach you the characteristics of the basic emotions of: anger, disgust, fear, surprise, contempt, happiness and sadness
    • An additional information page for each of the seven basic emotions that features: universal triggers of the emotion, universal functions of the emotion, FACS codes and associated nonverbal behaviors.
    • confusionsinstructional video section to help delineate between similar expressions such as fear and surprise and anger and contempt.
    • practice section with 56 images which feature individuals from ONLY the frontal view (pictured)
    • post test to see how far you’ve come. Receive over 80% with the images flashing at you at a speed of 1/5 of a second or less and receive a certificate of completion. You can take the post test as many times as you’d like.

    In addition, MiX™ Professional is set at a  speed of 100 milli seconds, or 1/10th of a second. MiX™ training features over 65 images from six ethnic groups equally representing males and females.

    MiX™ Professional offers users a comprehensive learning tool to detect microexpressions. Complete with expressions of males and females from various ethnic groups, MiX™ Professional can improve your ability to recognize hidden signs of emotions in less than one hour of training.

    Training is accessible for 24 hours a day, 7 days a week for 1 year through our training website. Simply purchase the training, create an account and register your product key that you receive via email. It’s that simple.


    MiX License Information

    Purchase of the online training allows you to access the training as many times as you like. (The pre-test can only be seen once). The online training is for individual use only and is governed by the terms and conditions set forth in the end user license agreement – the training cannot be used by multiple users or for commercial purposes.

    Specialized Training Services also offers group licenses for large organizations or groups. For more information, email us at info@specializedtraining.com.

    $64.99

  • Introduction to Threat Assessment and Nonverbal Behavior

    $79.99

    On-Demand Webinar

    How can nonverbal behavior be used to identify threats? Learn an overview of threat assessment and nonverbal behavior in this exclusive 1-hour recorded webinar led by world-renowned psychologist Dr. David Matsumoto.

    Description

    Presented by Dr. David Matsumoto, topics include:

    • Overview of threat assessment and nonverbal behavior
    • Understanding baselines 
    • Types of aggression
    • Behavioral signatures of imminent attack 
    This course is invaluable for anyone who may be in harm’s way, including:
    • First responders
    • Law enforcement
    • Security personnel
    • Those who want to be more aware of their surroundings

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    $79.99

  • Introductory Microexpression Training

    $84.99

    An online training scientifically proven to improve your ability to see concealed or repressed signs of emotion in the people you interview.

    Developed by renowned expert, Dr. David Matsumoto

    MiX Enhanced will help you:

    • Read normally occurring facial expressions of emotions
    • See microexpressions, signs of concealed or hidden thoughts and feelings
    • Identify key characteristics of the 7 basic emotions
    • See how others really feel and label it quickly and accurately

    This one-of-a-kind course consists of:

    • Pre-Test: Determine your natural propensity to read facial expressions of emotion, and especially microexpressions
    • Expression Basics Section: Features a brief overview of facial expressions including the functions of emotions, emotions as reactions to events, and the difference between spontaneous and deliberate emotions
    • 16 Instructional and Review Videos: That teach you the characteristics of the facial expressions of anger, disgust, fear, surprise, contempt, happiness and sadness
    • Practice Section: Training with 56 images randomly selected from a pool of over 300 images, featuring full frontal views. You can take the practice section as many times as you like and see a different set of images each time.
    • Post-Test: See how far you’ve come by testing your ability to see 28 images randomly selected from a pool of almost 200 images. You can take the post-test as many times as you’d like. You can take the post-test as many times as you like and see a different set of images each time.
    • Certificate of Completion: Receive over 80% with the images flashing at you at a speed of 1/5 of a second or less and receive a certificate of completion.

    In addition, MiX™ Enhanced allows you to set the speed of your training. This course features over 500 images from six ethnic groups equally representing males and females.

    Training is accessible for 24 hours a day, 7 days a week for 1 year through our training website. Simply purchase the training, create an account and register your product key that you receive via email. It’s that simple.


    MiX License Information

    Purchase of the online training allows you to access the training as many times as you like. (The pre-test can only be seen once). The online training is for individual use only and is governed by the terms and conditions set forth in the end user license agreement – the training cannot be used by multiple users or for commercial purposes.

    Specialized Training Services also offers group licenses for large organizations or groups. For more information, email us at info@specializedtraining.com.

    $84.99

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    It’s Coming from Inside the House: Understanding Insider Threat

    Original price was: $64.99.Current price is: $39.99.

    On-Demand Training

    It’s Coming from Inside the House: Understanding Insider Threat provides a fundamental understanding of Insider Threat, including the types, motivations, impacts and manifestations. The training also addresses strategies for assessing and managing insider threat and mitigating vulnerability. The training runs just over 1.5 hours.

    Learn more about presenter Ashleigh Diserio here

    Learning Objectives

    Students will be supported to:

    • Describe the different types of insider threat
    • Discuss ways to mitigate vulnerability related to insider threat
    • Implement tools and strategies associated with preventing the mobilization of a potential insider threat

    1.5  ASIS and/or SHRM CEUs available

    Specialized Training Services, Inc. is recognized by SHRM to offer Professional Development Credits (PDCs) for SHRM-CP® or SHRM-SCP® recertification activities.

     

  • Neurocriminology

    $69.99

    Neurocriminology: Forensic and Legal Applications, Public Policy Implications explores the dramatic impact of advances in neuroscience research and practice to our present understanding of criminality and crime control. Contemporary, cutting-edge research in neuroscience is cited and explained. Studies and cases are clearly and concisely outlined with potential uses for practical applications detailed. This will be framed in the context of criminological foundations, theory, and the notion of the nature of crime itself. This comprehensive and engaging book also delves into recent developments in modern neurology, and connections between neuroscience and its criminal, legal, and forensic implications and ramifications.

    The book poses various questions about what insight neurology can provide to human cognition, to motivation and―in particular―criminal motivation. From biological observations is there a pattern, or are there similarities, in what the brainscan of a criminal looks like? What are the treatment implications and are their valid assessments or treatments that can be used in a corrections environment to curb, or even modify, behavior definitively? And, ultimately, what are the moral, legal and social implications of all? Coverage throughout incorporates leading research that links neurological and biological factors to heightened risk for criminality. This includes coverage of suboptimal arousal (low heart rate), testosterone, neurotransmitters, and variations in MAOA―the so-called “warrior gene”―and more.

    Neurocriminology will offer a thought-provoking analysis of the broad-reaching implications of this science to better inform the prevention, investigation, monitoring, and control of crime. This includes the remarkable potential for neuroscience to serve as a resource and potential tool to criminology and penology researchers, psychologists, forensic psychologists, forensic scientists, legal professionals, and investigators of crime and criminal behavior.

    Diana M. Concannon, PsyD

  • On-Demand Video WAVR-21 Training presented by Stephen White PhD

    NEW, On-demand video, 5-hour, small-group training on the WAVR-21 V-3, presented by Stephen White, PhD–one of the developers of the tool.

    Access is limited to small groups. Contact info@SpecializedTraining.Com for more information.

    For more information on the WAVR-21 V-3, or to purchase the manual or coding booklets, Click Here.

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    Paranoia and Violence (2 APA CUs)

    Original price was: $69.99.Current price is: $49.99.

    This 2-hour training on the relationship between paranoia and violence is provided by one of the nation’s leading experts on the topic, Phill Resnick, MD.

    The training addresses paranoia and the related characteristics and behaviors suggestive of impending violence
    Learning objectives
    Students will be supported to:
    • Employ strategies for improving risk assessment with paranoid individuals
    • Identify motives and triggers correlated with violence committed by paranoid individuals
    • Distinguish between making a threat and posing a threat
    2 hours of APA Continuing Education

    Specialized Training Services is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. Specialized Training Services maintains responsibility for this program and its content.

    This program was originally delivered in July, 2024, via Zoom for the University of Michigan’s Center for Forensic Psychiatry
  • The Power of Prevention

    $729.95

    On-Demand Video Threat Assessment Training

    This premium, on-demand, 18-module course offers world-class foundational education on pre-violence warning signs and risk factors; related stressors and triggers; mental disturbance and its relationship to targeted violence; personal grievance and ideological motivations; signs of potential imminent violence; gathering information, understanding social media impact, and avoiding various critical biases. This course will also teach practical threat assessment and management, offering instruction on the full life cycle of a case including intake, triage, critical threat assessment stages, changing levels of concern, full-spectrum threat management strategies, and responsible follow-up including case closure.

    *****EMAIL US AT INFO@SPECIALIZEDTRAINING.COM TO INQUIRE ABOUT OUR GROUP DISCOUNT*****

    Presenters: Reid Meloy, PhD, ABPP      and     Molly Amman, JD

    Bundle 1 (1 hour) contains:

    • Module 1 – Introduction: The course introduction outlines the course content, provides some fundamental concepts, and discusses recent case law in threat assessment and management.
    • Module 2 – Understanding Planned Violence: This module explains different modes of violence and how they intersect with biology and behavior, offers explanatory case examples, and addresses threats versus violence.
    • If you’d like to purchase Bundle 1 only, please Click Here

    Bundle 2 (1 hour) contains:

    • Module 3 – Risk Factors for Violence: Gain an in-depth understanding of how risk factors can create a future vulnerability to considering planned violence, with research findings and case examples.
    • If you’d like to purchase Bundle 2 only, please Click Here

    Bundle 3 (1.5 hours) contains:

    • Module 4 – Proximal Warning Behaviors and the Pathway to Violence: Learn, in compelling detail, about the patterns of behavior that suggest accelerating risk toward planned violence. Filled with real world case examples, current research, and in-depth analysis.
    • If you’d like to purchase Bundle 3 only, please Click Here

    Bundle 4 (1 hour) contains:

    • Module 5 – Signs of Imminence: This succinct module describes those behaviors which appear to be associated with a short period before violence could unfold.
    • Module 6 – Stressors and Triggers: Events or circumstances with the potential to degrade a person of concern’s coping abilities are described, along with a framework for analysis and case example
    • Module 7 – Threat Reducing Factors: Facts, circumstances, or even personal attributes of the person of concern that may operate to reduce violence potential are described and explained.
    • Module 8 – Violence Risk and Threat Assessment Instruments: These important tools are categorized and explained, along with examples in each category and a source for additional information.
    • Module 9 – Deciding on a Level of Concern: This module offers a framework by which the threat assessor may consistently assess and label cases, which is a key to effective communication and appropriate action.
    • If you’d like to purchase Bundle 4 only, please Click Here

    Bundle 5 (.75 hour) contains:

    • Module 10 – Stalking and Intimate Partner Violence: Unparalleled analysis and explanation of stalkers, stalking behaviors and violence, and key aspects of intimate partner violence for threat assessors.
    • If you’d like to purchase Bundle 5 only, please Click Here

    Bundle 6 (.5 hour) contains:

    • Module 11 – Avoiding Cognitive Biases That Derail Assessment and Management: Different forms of bias are revealed and explained, to enable threat assessors to avoid them in case work.
    • If you’d like to purchase Bundle 6 only, please Click Here

    Bundle 7 (1.5 hours) contains:

    • Module 12 – Information Gathering and Interviewing: An important discussion of data in threat assessment investigations and how this concept differs from other types of investigations. Special tips for interviewing the subject of inquiry.
    • Module 13 – Social Media’s Place in Threat Assessment: Describes the ways in which social media relates to on-the-ground behavior, plus key psychological and behavioral concepts.
    • If you’d like to purchase Bundle 7 only, please Click Here

    Bundle 8 (1 hour) contains:

    • Module 14 – Threat Management: Informed by the assessment, threat management is the key to altering the course of events. This module describes the threat management spectrum of options, illustrated by numerous case examples. Particular attention is paid to safe  and future-oriented terminations, expulsions, and long suspensions..
    • If you’d like to purchase Bundle 8 only, please Click Here

    Bundle 9 (.5 hour) contains:

    • Module 15 – Special Considerations in the K-12 Environment: Special characteristics of the K-12 environment are discussed, along with zero tolerance policies, K-12 threat assessment structured professional judgment tools, and attachment and its relationship to targeted violence by juveniles. Particular attention is paid to safe  and future-oriented terminations, expulsions, and long suspensions.
    • If you’d like to purchase Bundle 9 only, please Click Here

    Bundle 10 (1.25 hours) contains:

    • Module 16 – Threat Assessment Mechanics: This crucial module describes each step—and the reasons for them—in the lifecycle of a threat assessment and management case, from intake to case closure.
    • Module 17 – Setting Up your Program and Threat Assessment Team: This module is for anyone responsible for writing or evaluating workplace violence prevention policy, establishing a program, or setting up a threat assessment team. It also addresses maximizing bystander reporting of concerning behavior
    • Module 18 – Overview of the Threat Assessment and Management Arc: Review of the threat assessment and management process, discussion of resources for networking, knowledge and training, and final thoughts of the presenters.
    • If you’d like to purchase Bundle 10 only, please Click Here

    Purchase the whole 10-hour package for $729.95   or CLICK HERE for the Continuing Education hours version

  • Preventing and Managing Violence in Organizations – Workplace Violence, Targeted Violence, and Active Shooters

    $69.99

    Organizations of all types and sizes, whether they are a business, educational institution, healthcare provider, or house-of-worship, need to plan for the possibility of violent acts that may impact its people, assets, and activities. Preventing and Managing Violence in Organizations: Workplace Violence, Targeted Violence, and Active Shooters provides a comprehensive approach to addressing workplace violence, active shooter and assailant events, and other forms of targeted violence. The book takes a unique perspective that the prevention and management of violence in an organization is a risk and business management issue, rather than a siloed security issue.  As such, the book’s objective is to help organizations develop a program for preventing and managing violence that can be integrated into their day-to-day overall business management approach.

    The main theme of the book is that any program to prevent and manage violence in an organization needs to be an inclusive process: where everyone in the organization is viewed as a risk maker and risk taker, and therefore, a risk manager. The emphasis is on building a risk and security awareness culture in the organization so that everyone throughout the organization is aware and part of the solution. The book recognizes that many, if not most, organizations do not have a dedicated chief security officer to oversee the prevention and management of violence. It also recognizes that many resource allocation decisions are made by business managers, not the security manager.

    While other books approach this issue from a security perspective, this book takes the perspective that providing a safe and secure environment within the organization, and protecting its people, assets, and activities, is a business management imperative. Therefore, the book emphasizes the need to promote a risk and security awareness culture that is integrated into the organization’s system of management and all its activities and functions.  The “Introduction” section of the book includes a brief description of violence in organizations and the imperative for integrating the prevention and management of violence into the organization’s overall business management strategy. The “Framework” section helps business, human resource, risk, security, and safety managers build a programmatic framework to support prevention and management of violence in all the organizations activities. The “Tactics and Control Measures” section provides tactical and operational advice and tools on methods to prevent, respond to, and recover from potentially violent events.  For organizations that have adopted an ISO, Robust Process Improvement, or Six-Sigma management systems approach, they will immediately recognize that the elements described in the framework can be integrated seamlessly into their overall management system approach.

    Preventing and Managing Violence in Organizations illustrates a systems approach for preventing and managing violence in organizations that can also be used for managing other types of operational risks. Security managers will find the book useful for integrating security in the organization’s day-to-day activities—as an integral part of these activities—rather than an add-on activity. Security professionals will be able to present their program from a business and risk management perspective.

    Dr. Marc H. Siegel

  • Preventing Domestic Homicides

    $84.99

    Preventing Domestic Homicides: Lessons Learned from Tragedies focuses on the diverse nature of domestic homicides and what has been learned about the most effective prevention strategies from emerging research and the work of domestic violence death review committees in Canada, the US, the UK, NZ and AU. Each chapter focuses on different populations—specifically older women, youth dating relationships, indigenous women, immigrant and refugee populations, rural/remote communities, same-sex relationships, homicides with police & military, domestic homicide in the workplace, and children killed in the context of domestic violence. Topics cover current research, risk factors, and include case studies from domestic homicide review committees.

    Cases are summarized regarding major themes and recommendations, such as public awareness, professional training, risk assessment, intervention and collaboration amongst service systems. Written for academic and domestic violence researchers in sociology, criminology, psychology and psychiatry by global contributors with on-the-ground domestic homicide experience.

    1st Edition – March 24, 2020

  • The Psychology of Insider Risk – Detection, Investigation and Case Management

    $54.99

    Clinical psychologist and former intelligence officer Eric D. Shaw brings over 30 years of psychological consultation experience to the national security community, corporate investigations and law enforcement to this work on insider risk. After a career in counterterrorism, Dr. Shaw spent the last 20 years concentrating on insiders—employees who commit espionage, sabotage, intellectual property theft, present risks of harm to self and others, and other workplace risks, especially those influenced by mental health conditions.

    Dr. Shaw is the author of the Critical Pathway to Insider Risk (CPIR) which addresses the characteristics, experiences and connections at-risk employees bring to our organizations, the stressors that trigger higher levels of risk, the concerning behaviors that signal this risk has increased and the action or inaction by organizations that escalate insider risk. The CPIR also examines what these employees look like when they have broken bad and the personal characteristics, resources and support that can mitigate these risks. Dr. Shaw also examines specific risk accelerators like subject disgruntlement, personality disorders and problematic organizational responses that can escalate the speed and intensity of insider risks. The investigative applications, strengths and weaknesses of the CPIR are also considered.

    This work also describes the behavioral science tools deployed in insider investigations, especially those designed to locate and understand persons at-risk and help organizations intervene to avoid escalation or manage potential damage. Case examples are drawn from intelligence community, corporate and law enforcement investigations. Specific insider cases where the use of behavioral science tools is described in detail include leaks, anonymous threats, erotomania, hacking, violence risk, mass destruction threats and espionage.

    The work closes with consideration of the many current and future challenges insider risk professionals face. These include the challenge of recognizing suicidal ideation as a gateway to other forms of insider risk, understanding when subject therapy will, and will not reduce risk, deciphering belief in conspiracy theory from significant extremist risk, appreciating insider threats to our elections and the unique challenges posed when the insider is a leader.

    Eric Shaw, PhD

  • The Risks Within: Preventing & Managing Workplace Violence

    $34.99

    156 pages, published in 2022.
    Marc Mcelhaney, Ph.D.

    The term, “workplace violence” has become a frightful one, suggesting the seemingly sudden emergence of a crazed “active shooter”, resulting in multiple casualties. Dr. McElhaney, a psychological specialist in the prevention and management of high-risk behavior, urges us to reconsider our preconceptions and stereotypes if we are ever going to be able to successfully prevent these often-fatal events. Relying on real examples from his files, he demonstrates that these at-risk individuals always exist among us, often unrecognized, but for a variety of reasons and circumstances, have come to pose a danger to those around them. He introduces us specifically to the events surrounding Maria, Patrick, and Neil, otherwise “normal” individuals in most circumstances, but who had encountered a perfect storm of events in their lives that, without early recognition and intervention, could have resulted in violent consequences. In the second half of this book, the author provides us with a step-by-step guide to establishing a process that enables us to identify and safely manage these behaviors before they result in dangerous and fatal consequences. This is a critical read for any manager – or for any of us for that matter.

  • Workplace Violence Prevention

    Workplace Violence Awareness Program

    Video Training Program for Employees and Managers

    Brought to you in collaboration with Dr. Marc McElhaney

    Employee awareness is critical if an organization wishes to avoid the potential harm and costs of aggressive or disruptive behaviors. You cannot have an effective Workplace Violence Response and Prevention program without employee participation and support.

    This succinct video program can be shown to all employees and supervisors as part of their initial orientation to the company or as part of ongoing employee or manager development.

    Preview:

    Company employees can easily access and view this program online in through our website, receiving a downloadable certificate upon completion, or your company can purchase it to place on its own training platform.

    The program is currently available in six languages: Dutch, French, Polish, Spanish, Swedish and German.

    The program can be completely customized, so that it is consistent with the company’s image and message – and will have the appearance of your own company-designed video.

    • Employee-specific training
    • Management-specific training
    • Active assailant training

    There is a “Train the Trainer” package available as well.

    Inquire Today

    1.800.848.1226

    Info@SpecializedTraining.com