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6 CE hours available
Specialized Training Services is approved by the
American Psychological Association to sponsor
continuing education for psychologists.
Specialized Training Services retains
responsibility for this program.
Published in 2010, 352 pages
There are various psychological areas that must be addressed when performing forensic assessments. In order to do this properly, professionals need an authoritative source of advice and guidance on how to administer, score and interpret these tests. Written by noted forensic psychologist, Marc Ackerman, Ph.D., Essentials of Forensic Psychological Assessment is the first book to provide forensic psychologists and other mental health professionals involved in court cases with state-of-the-art interpretive and administrative guidelines for the most widely used assessment tools (including the ASPECT, BPS, PCRI, TSI, MPS, MMPI-2 and the WAIS-III).
Written by the Personality Assessment Inventory author, Essentials of PAI Assessment provides the fundamentals of administration and interpretation of the PAI in an easy-to-use format. It also offers more advanced user tips and insights for combining different types of information provided by the test.
Essentials of PAI Assessment, Leslie C. Morey, 256 pages
Written by the Personality Assessment Inventory author, Essentials of PAI Assessment provides the fundamentals of administration and interpretation of the PAI in an easy-to-use format. It also offers more advanced user tips and insights for combining different types of information provided by the test.
Essentials of PAI Assessment, Leslie C. Morey, 256 pages
Evaluation for Risk of Violence in Adults
Forensic mental health assessment (FMHA) has grown into a specialization informed by research and professional guidelines. Evaluation for Risk of Violence in Adults is one in a series of works on FMHA. It synthesizes the important developments in violence risk assessment with adults, particularly over the last two decades.
2009, 187 pages
Psychologists, psychiatrists, and other mental health professionals may be experts in their respective fields, but this expertise does not easily translate to effective courtroom testimony. Even veteran expert witnesses can encounter new challenges in these high-pressure situations, especially during a cross-examination where every statement and gesture can be scrutinized by an attorney searching for ways to dispute the expert’s credibility and opinions.
Short chapters punctuated by memorable maxims draw from the authors’ expansive personal experiences, as well as research and stories from other expert expert witnesses, to create this must-have resource that will inform and entertain expert witnesses for many years.
Stanley Brodsky, Ph.D.
published in 1999
Quotes: “This is a wonderful book. It is extremely useful for expert witnesses at all levels of experience. It is well written, succinct, highly readable, and engaging. It is a book that is enjoyable as well as educational…” Charles Patrick Ewing, J.D., Ph.D., ABPP
394 pages, published in 1999.
While a few more resources exist now then ten years ago, literature on female sexual abusers is still meager. Female abuser typologies are in flux, motivations rely more on assumptions than research results. Treatment modalities continue to be adapted from those used with men, and treatment outcomes remain undocumented. Every step we take to add to our knowledge of these hidden abusers is a step toward a safer society.
Female Sexual Abusers: Three Views is one such step, or perhaps more accurately, three. Drs. Davin Davin, Dunbar, and Hislop look at different aspects of female sexual abusers. Their rigorous, detailed research provides a deeper understanding of why woman abuse. Beginning with extensive literature reviews, their examination of women who abuse ranges from the characteristics of co-offenders, to factors in etiology of offending for women, to comparisons of psycho-social histories of women abusers and non-offending women in the same milieus.
A good but slightly dated book on this emerging topic.
This interactive workshop introduces the fields of Forensic and Tactical Linguistics. Participants have the opportunity to learn about diverse methodologies and apply their knowledge to a variety of language evidence. This includes written and spoken corroborations from international cases and interdisciplinary research in the form of targeted violence manifestos and live-streams, threatening letters, ransom demands, bomb threats, suicide notes, text messages and confessions.
The first module, Forensic Linguistics, is divided into three segments: the introductory part asks the audience to conduct forensic transcriptions of handwritten, typewritten and recorded language evidence to develop the skill of accurate observations. The following sections provide an overview of forensic authorship analysis and linguistic variation, with hands-on exercises comprised of different types of corroborations for the viewers.
The second module, Tactical Linguistics, focuses on linguistic threat analyses and illustrates several techniques that can assist in examining concerning communications. This entails detailed discussions and exercises on leakage, imminent threats and targeted violence communications. The final segment presents findings of a pilot study that analyzed the online and offline behaviors of three lone-actor terrorists prior to their attacks, including their language evidence.
Handbook of Violence Risk Assessment, Otto & Douglas
The Handbook of Violence Risk Assessment, Second Edition, builds on the first edition’s comprehensive discussion of violence risk assessment instruments with an update of research on established tools and the addition of new chapters devoted to recently developed risk assessment tools.
Featuring chapters written by the instrument developers themselves, this handbook reviews the most frequently used violence risk assessment instruments—both actuarial and structured professional judgment—that professionals use to inform and structure their judgments about violence risk. Also included are broader chapters that address matters such as the consideration of psychopathy and how the law shapes violence risk assessment.
Already the primary reference for practitioners, researchers, and legal professionals in this area, this second edition’s easy-to-access, comprehensive, and current information will make it an indispensable reference for those in the field.
2020, 474 pages
Insider Threat: Detection, Mitigation, Deterrence and Prevention presents a set of solutions to address the increase in cases of insider threat. This includes espionage, embezzlement, sabotage, fraud, intellectual property theft, and research and development theft from current or former employees. This book outlines a step-by-step path for developing an insider threat program within any organization, focusing on management and employee engagement, as well as ethical, legal, and privacy concerns. In addition, it includes tactics on how to collect, correlate, and visualize potential risk indicators into a seamless system for protecting an organization’s critical assets from malicious, complacent, and ignorant insiders. Insider Threat presents robust mitigation strategies that will interrupt the forward motion of a potential insider who intends to do harm to a company or its employees, as well as an understanding of supply chain risk and cyber security, as they relate to insider threat.
234 pages, published in 2016
New to this Edition:
J. Reid Meloy and Jens Hoffmann.
Second Edition published April 23, 2021.
Explores new and innovative approaches to treating domestic violence perpetrators. A brief history is also presented on perpetrator treatment, the feminist perspectives on treatment and how recent research findings suggest that perpetrators of domestic violence need more than education and attitude adjustment.
Donald Dutton, Ph.D. and Daniel Sonkin, Ph.D.
329 pages, published in 2003
8 CE hours available
Specialized Training Services is approved by the
American Psychological Association to sponsor
continuing education for psychologists.
Specialized Training Services retains
responsibility for this program.
396 pages, published in 1993, 2005
Howard E. Barbaree and William L. Marshall
While there has been an extraordinary amount of published research and theory on sexual assault by adult male offenders, little has been written about the juvenile or adolescent offender. Filling in a gap in the literature, this comprehensive volume provides a detailed examination of the juvenile offender and what is known about the development of sexually assaultive behavior.
Chapter Headings:
Chapter 1: Sexual Assault in Society: The Role of the Juvenile Offender
Chapter 2: Legal Responses to the Juvenile Sex Offender
Chapter 3: Exploring Characteristics for Classifying Juvenile Sex Offenders
Chapter 4: Where does Sexuality Come From? Normative Sexuality from a Developmental Perspective
Chapter 5: Sexual Assault through the Life Span: Adult Offenders with Juvenile Histories
Chapter 6: Pavlovian Conditioning Processes in Adolescent Sex Offenders
Chapter 7: The Phylogenetic and Ontogenetic Development of Sexual Age Preferences in Males: Conceptual and Measurement Issues
Chapter 8: The Importance of Attachment Bonds in the Development of Juvenile Sex Offending
Chapter 9: Adolescent Sexual Aggression within Heterosexual Relationships: Prevalence, Characteristics, and Causes
Chapter 10: The Relationship Between Substance Use and Abuse and Sexual Offending in Adolescents
Chapter 11: The Conduct Disorders and the Juvenile Sex Offender
Chapter 12: The Developmentally Disabled Adolescent Sex Offender
Chapter 13: Treatment of the Juvenile Sex Offender within the Criminal Justice and Mental Health Systems
Chapter 14: Cognitive Behavioral Treatment of the Juvenile Sex Offender
Chapter 15: The Pharmacological Treatment of the Adolescent Sex Offender
Chapter 16: Relapse Prevention with Sexually Aggressive Adolescents and Children: Expanding Treatment and Supervision
This four-hour presentation is presented by one of the great authorities,, Dr. Phillip Resnick, MD.
Specialized Training Services is proud to bring you Managing Extremism and Grievance-Fueled Threats: A Forging Critical Connections Threat Assessment Training
Sponsored by Ally Financial, Inc.
Managing Extremism and Grievance-Fueled Threats will take place in Charlotte, North Carolina on June 4th, 5th and 6th, 2024, and will be simulcast via Zoom for those who wish to attend virtually.
A crucial training for HR and Risk Management, Security, Law Enforcement, and Mental Health professionals
In Person location: Ally Charlotte Center, 601 S. Tryon Street, Charlotte, NC, 28202
Virtual Attendees: A Zoom link will be emailed 24 to 48 hours before the training to the email address you provide on your registration form.
Day 1 Topics include:
Day 2 Topics include
Day 3 Topics Include
Register to attend one day, two days or all three days, in-person or virtually.
The trainings will take place from 8:30 a.m. until approximately 4:30 p.m. Eastern Daylight time on each day (with a break for lunch). Lunch will be provided by Ally Financial.
There are up to 21 hours of APA and SHRM Continuing Education Credits available.
Virtual Attendees: A Zoom link will be emailed 24 to 48 hours before the training to the email address you provide on your registration form.
RATES:
In-person, One day only: $275
In-person, Two days only: $425
In-Person, All three days: $600
Virtual, One day only: $250
Virtual; Two days only: $400
Virtual; All three days $575
ATAP and ASIS Members: Take an additional 5% off with Coupon Code: Charlotte5
***You will be emailed a registration form after purchasing your enrollment***
6 CE hours available
Specialized Training Services is approved by the
American Psychological Association to sponsor
continuing education for psychologists.
Specialized Training Services retains
responsibility for this program.
Managing Suicidal Risk: A Collaborative Approach, Second Edition, provides a thorough introduction to the use of the Collaborative Assessment and Management of Suicide (CAMS) protocol. Experienced clinicians might easily incorporate the SSF-4 and associated CAMS materials into their practice with suicidal patients. Reproducible Suicide Status Forms and other CAMS materials are provided in the manual….A complete case example featuring one of Jobes’s own former patients is interwoven throughout the manual….Provides a clear and flexible framework for the treatment of suicidal behavior in outpatient settings. Jobes offers an evidence-based treatment framework which was seemingly co-authored with his many patient-survivors of suicide over years of research and treatment. The manual provides important updates to the first edition which have resulted from rigorous evaluation of the CAMS model. With research support for CAMS growing, the second edition of Managing Suicidal Risk: A Collaborative Approach may become a relied-upon reference in the toolkit of clinicians and allied professionals who serve suicidal patients. (Journal of Contemporary Psychotherapy)
-John Douglas
384 pages, published in 1995.
Summary: Mind Hunter describes the distinguished career of former F.B.I. agent John Douglas. The text follows Douglas from the beginning of his F.B.I. career, through the pionering of criminal profiling and the forming of the F.B.I.’s Behavioral Science Unit. Douglas describes the infamous cases he was involved with, as well as, the profiling techniques he helped pioneer. He discusses the serial offenders that he interviewed over the years. Their methods, techniques and their motivation for the commission of their offenses. Perhaps most importantly, Douglas helps the reader to begin to make sense of the horrendous nature of the crimes of serial killers.
Comments: This text would best be described as a memoir. One that goes into great length to describe the final output of one law enforcement agent’s outstanding career dealing with and attempting to understand the nature of the serial offender. I found it to be a very fascinating read. (STS staff)
Note: Due to a technical glitch, the feed showing the presenter’s powerpoint slides was inoperative.
Program description from brochure:
A sense of entitlement and callous disregard for the rights and feelings of others are the captivating, irritating, and sometimes frightening behaviors that introduce us to individuals with these personality disorders. How can these people be so sensitive to criticism and humiliation? Why do they act with such rage when they don’t get what they want? Where is their empathy-if they had any to begin with-for the plight of others? How can a democratic, wealthy, and educated country appear to be a breeding ground for such self-centered, cold, aloof, unpleasant, and in some cases, very dangerous individuals? This presentation will explore the current state of the science in our diagnostic understanding and treatment of narcissistic and antisocial individuals, with a particular emphasis on differential issues, gender, psychotherapy, psychoanalysis, medication, psychopathy, dangerousness, and risk management.
The DSM-IV-TR diagnoses of NPD and ASPD
Measuring degrees of psychopathy
Psychological testing, interviewing, and independent data
Psychotherapy and psychoanalysis
Medication and risk management
The grandiose self and identification with the aggressor
Countertransference reactions
Resistances to treatment, and when not to treat
The primary or severe psychopath
On Demand Video
Continuing Education Credits available – watch the video, take notes, pass the test, print your certificate!
Home Study program duration (CE credit): 3.5 hours
Presenter: Reid Meloy, Ph.D.
Venue: Live Conference Presentation
Location: San Diego, CA
Obsessive-compulsive personality disorder is one of the most common clinical entities on Axis II of DSM-IV. It is frequently confused with obsessive-compulsive disorder, and the differences will be outlined. The psychodynamic underpinnings of OCPD will be discussed, and the optimal psychotherapeutic approaches will be illustrated. Randomized controlled trials validated the efficacy of psychodynamic psychotherapy in the treatment of OCPD.
Histrionic personality disorder has a time-honored tradition that links it with hysterical personality disorder. The two can be considered as residing on a continuum with histrionic personality disorder having more in common with borderline personality disorder, while hysterical personality disorder has more in common with character neuroses. Some of the underlying psychodynamic features will be discussed, and psychotherapeutic strategies will be outlined.
This training covers:
On Demand Video
Continuing Education (CE credit): 3.5 hours – watch the video, pass the test, print your certificate!
Presenter: Glen Gabbard, M.D.
Venue: Live Conference Presentation
Location: San Diego, CA
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.
One of the important developmental starting points in understanding violence is that physical aggression is essentially universal in infants (and equally so for males and females). Early trauma creates risk that this early aggression will coalesce into violent behavior in adolescence. The experience of abuse sets the child up for the kind of “risky thinking” that leads to chronic patterns of aggression, bad behavior, acting out and violating the rights of others that can lead to a diagnosis of “conduct disorder.” If no intervention occurs, this pattern of childhood conduct disorder becomes the entryway into adolescent delinquent and antisocial violent behavior. The more socially toxic (and traumatic) the environment in which childhood and adolescence occur, the more likely it is that childhood conduct disorder will translate into adolescent violence. Changing patterns of aggression in girls provide a useful insight into how and why these processes take place. This presentation will analyze these behaviors in girls and boys for their similarities and differences and discuss the implications for violence in adolescence.
Four elements of “risky thinking” that link early trauma to conduct disorder in childhood
Three elements of social toxicity that affect the prognosis for childhood conduct disorder
Two risk factors and two protective factors affecting the impact of early trauma on subsequent aggression and violence
On Demand Video
Continuing Education (CE credit): 3.5 hours– watch the video, pass the test, print your certificate!
Presenter: James Garbarino, Ph.D.
Venue: Live Conference Presentation
Location: San Diego, CA
Best viewing is done with a mid-sized screen as a full screen will lose some of its resolution. This video is from a live conference presentation and is largely unedited. In some cases you may not hear a question asked by a participant however, in most cases the presenter will repeat the question.
We recommend you take notes just as you would if you were in a live conference as those notes will be helpful to learning and will come in handy for the test which follows.
Program description:
Research on personality disorder has increased considerably in recent years leading to fundamental changes in ideas about the structure, origins, classification, and treatment of this disorder. This talk will provide a broad overview of this work and its implications for assessment and treatment. Progress in understanding the dimensional structure of personality disorder will be discussed in terms of its implications for future classifications, assessment, and treatment planning. Traditional ideas that personality disorder arises from psychosocial adversity are being supplemented with an understanding of genetic influences on personality that have important implications for treatment and ideas about the nature of therapeutic change. It will be argued that these developments, along with the results of systematic evaluations of treatment outcome, point to the importance of an integrated and eclectic approach to treatment that combines strategies and interventions from different therapeutic models.
On Demand Video
Continuing Education (CE credit): 3.5 hours – watch the video, pass the test, print your certificate!
Presenter: John Livesley, M.D., Ph.D.
Venue: Live Conference Presentation
Location: San Diego, CA
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6 CE hours available
Specialized Training Services is approved by the
American Psychological Association to sponsor
continuing education for psychologists.
Specialized Training Services retains
responsibility for this program.
Published in 2010, 352 pages
There are various psychological areas that must be addressed when performing forensic assessments. In order to do this properly, professionals need an authoritative source of advice and guidance on how to administer, score and interpret these tests. Written by noted forensic psychologist, Marc Ackerman, Ph.D., Essentials of Forensic Psychological Assessment is the first book to provide forensic psychologists and other mental health professionals involved in court cases with state-of-the-art interpretive and administrative guidelines for the most widely used assessment tools (including the ASPECT, BPS, PCRI, TSI, MPS, MMPI-2 and the WAIS-III).
Written by the Personality Assessment Inventory author, Essentials of PAI Assessment provides the fundamentals of administration and interpretation of the PAI in an easy-to-use format. It also offers more advanced user tips and insights for combining different types of information provided by the test.
Essentials of PAI Assessment, Leslie C. Morey, 256 pages
Written by the Personality Assessment Inventory author, Essentials of PAI Assessment provides the fundamentals of administration and interpretation of the PAI in an easy-to-use format. It also offers more advanced user tips and insights for combining different types of information provided by the test.
Essentials of PAI Assessment, Leslie C. Morey, 256 pages
Evaluation for Risk of Violence in Adults
Forensic mental health assessment (FMHA) has grown into a specialization informed by research and professional guidelines. Evaluation for Risk of Violence in Adults is one in a series of works on FMHA. It synthesizes the important developments in violence risk assessment with adults, particularly over the last two decades.
2009, 187 pages
Psychologists, psychiatrists, and other mental health professionals may be experts in their respective fields, but this expertise does not easily translate to effective courtroom testimony. Even veteran expert witnesses can encounter new challenges in these high-pressure situations, especially during a cross-examination where every statement and gesture can be scrutinized by an attorney searching for ways to dispute the expert’s credibility and opinions.
Short chapters punctuated by memorable maxims draw from the authors’ expansive personal experiences, as well as research and stories from other expert expert witnesses, to create this must-have resource that will inform and entertain expert witnesses for many years.
Stanley Brodsky, Ph.D.
published in 1999
Quotes: “This is a wonderful book. It is extremely useful for expert witnesses at all levels of experience. It is well written, succinct, highly readable, and engaging. It is a book that is enjoyable as well as educational…” Charles Patrick Ewing, J.D., Ph.D., ABPP
394 pages, published in 1999.
While a few more resources exist now then ten years ago, literature on female sexual abusers is still meager. Female abuser typologies are in flux, motivations rely more on assumptions than research results. Treatment modalities continue to be adapted from those used with men, and treatment outcomes remain undocumented. Every step we take to add to our knowledge of these hidden abusers is a step toward a safer society.
Female Sexual Abusers: Three Views is one such step, or perhaps more accurately, three. Drs. Davin Davin, Dunbar, and Hislop look at different aspects of female sexual abusers. Their rigorous, detailed research provides a deeper understanding of why woman abuse. Beginning with extensive literature reviews, their examination of women who abuse ranges from the characteristics of co-offenders, to factors in etiology of offending for women, to comparisons of psycho-social histories of women abusers and non-offending women in the same milieus.
A good but slightly dated book on this emerging topic.
This interactive workshop introduces the fields of Forensic and Tactical Linguistics. Participants have the opportunity to learn about diverse methodologies and apply their knowledge to a variety of language evidence. This includes written and spoken corroborations from international cases and interdisciplinary research in the form of targeted violence manifestos and live-streams, threatening letters, ransom demands, bomb threats, suicide notes, text messages and confessions.
The first module, Forensic Linguistics, is divided into three segments: the introductory part asks the audience to conduct forensic transcriptions of handwritten, typewritten and recorded language evidence to develop the skill of accurate observations. The following sections provide an overview of forensic authorship analysis and linguistic variation, with hands-on exercises comprised of different types of corroborations for the viewers.
The second module, Tactical Linguistics, focuses on linguistic threat analyses and illustrates several techniques that can assist in examining concerning communications. This entails detailed discussions and exercises on leakage, imminent threats and targeted violence communications. The final segment presents findings of a pilot study that analyzed the online and offline behaviors of three lone-actor terrorists prior to their attacks, including their language evidence.
Handbook of Violence Risk Assessment, Otto & Douglas
The Handbook of Violence Risk Assessment, Second Edition, builds on the first edition’s comprehensive discussion of violence risk assessment instruments with an update of research on established tools and the addition of new chapters devoted to recently developed risk assessment tools.
Featuring chapters written by the instrument developers themselves, this handbook reviews the most frequently used violence risk assessment instruments—both actuarial and structured professional judgment—that professionals use to inform and structure their judgments about violence risk. Also included are broader chapters that address matters such as the consideration of psychopathy and how the law shapes violence risk assessment.
Already the primary reference for practitioners, researchers, and legal professionals in this area, this second edition’s easy-to-access, comprehensive, and current information will make it an indispensable reference for those in the field.
2020, 474 pages
Insider Threat: Detection, Mitigation, Deterrence and Prevention presents a set of solutions to address the increase in cases of insider threat. This includes espionage, embezzlement, sabotage, fraud, intellectual property theft, and research and development theft from current or former employees. This book outlines a step-by-step path for developing an insider threat program within any organization, focusing on management and employee engagement, as well as ethical, legal, and privacy concerns. In addition, it includes tactics on how to collect, correlate, and visualize potential risk indicators into a seamless system for protecting an organization’s critical assets from malicious, complacent, and ignorant insiders. Insider Threat presents robust mitigation strategies that will interrupt the forward motion of a potential insider who intends to do harm to a company or its employees, as well as an understanding of supply chain risk and cyber security, as they relate to insider threat.
234 pages, published in 2016
New to this Edition:
J. Reid Meloy and Jens Hoffmann.
Second Edition published April 23, 2021.
Explores new and innovative approaches to treating domestic violence perpetrators. A brief history is also presented on perpetrator treatment, the feminist perspectives on treatment and how recent research findings suggest that perpetrators of domestic violence need more than education and attitude adjustment.
Donald Dutton, Ph.D. and Daniel Sonkin, Ph.D.
329 pages, published in 2003
8 CE hours available
Specialized Training Services is approved by the
American Psychological Association to sponsor
continuing education for psychologists.
Specialized Training Services retains
responsibility for this program.
396 pages, published in 1993, 2005
Howard E. Barbaree and William L. Marshall
While there has been an extraordinary amount of published research and theory on sexual assault by adult male offenders, little has been written about the juvenile or adolescent offender. Filling in a gap in the literature, this comprehensive volume provides a detailed examination of the juvenile offender and what is known about the development of sexually assaultive behavior.
Chapter Headings:
Chapter 1: Sexual Assault in Society: The Role of the Juvenile Offender
Chapter 2: Legal Responses to the Juvenile Sex Offender
Chapter 3: Exploring Characteristics for Classifying Juvenile Sex Offenders
Chapter 4: Where does Sexuality Come From? Normative Sexuality from a Developmental Perspective
Chapter 5: Sexual Assault through the Life Span: Adult Offenders with Juvenile Histories
Chapter 6: Pavlovian Conditioning Processes in Adolescent Sex Offenders
Chapter 7: The Phylogenetic and Ontogenetic Development of Sexual Age Preferences in Males: Conceptual and Measurement Issues
Chapter 8: The Importance of Attachment Bonds in the Development of Juvenile Sex Offending
Chapter 9: Adolescent Sexual Aggression within Heterosexual Relationships: Prevalence, Characteristics, and Causes
Chapter 10: The Relationship Between Substance Use and Abuse and Sexual Offending in Adolescents
Chapter 11: The Conduct Disorders and the Juvenile Sex Offender
Chapter 12: The Developmentally Disabled Adolescent Sex Offender
Chapter 13: Treatment of the Juvenile Sex Offender within the Criminal Justice and Mental Health Systems
Chapter 14: Cognitive Behavioral Treatment of the Juvenile Sex Offender
Chapter 15: The Pharmacological Treatment of the Adolescent Sex Offender
Chapter 16: Relapse Prevention with Sexually Aggressive Adolescents and Children: Expanding Treatment and Supervision
This four-hour presentation is presented by one of the great authorities,, Dr. Phillip Resnick, MD.
Specialized Training Services is proud to bring you Managing Extremism and Grievance-Fueled Threats: A Forging Critical Connections Threat Assessment Training
Sponsored by Ally Financial, Inc.
Managing Extremism and Grievance-Fueled Threats will take place in Charlotte, North Carolina on June 4th, 5th and 6th, 2024, and will be simulcast via Zoom for those who wish to attend virtually.
A crucial training for HR and Risk Management, Security, Law Enforcement, and Mental Health professionals
In Person location: Ally Charlotte Center, 601 S. Tryon Street, Charlotte, NC, 28202
Virtual Attendees: A Zoom link will be emailed 24 to 48 hours before the training to the email address you provide on your registration form.
Day 1 Topics include:
Day 2 Topics include
Day 3 Topics Include
Register to attend one day, two days or all three days, in-person or virtually.
The trainings will take place from 8:30 a.m. until approximately 4:30 p.m. Eastern Daylight time on each day (with a break for lunch). Lunch will be provided by Ally Financial.
There are up to 21 hours of APA and SHRM Continuing Education Credits available.
Virtual Attendees: A Zoom link will be emailed 24 to 48 hours before the training to the email address you provide on your registration form.
RATES:
In-person, One day only: $275
In-person, Two days only: $425
In-Person, All three days: $600
Virtual, One day only: $250
Virtual; Two days only: $400
Virtual; All three days $575
ATAP and ASIS Members: Take an additional 5% off with Coupon Code: Charlotte5
***You will be emailed a registration form after purchasing your enrollment***
6 CE hours available
Specialized Training Services is approved by the
American Psychological Association to sponsor
continuing education for psychologists.
Specialized Training Services retains
responsibility for this program.
Managing Suicidal Risk: A Collaborative Approach, Second Edition, provides a thorough introduction to the use of the Collaborative Assessment and Management of Suicide (CAMS) protocol. Experienced clinicians might easily incorporate the SSF-4 and associated CAMS materials into their practice with suicidal patients. Reproducible Suicide Status Forms and other CAMS materials are provided in the manual….A complete case example featuring one of Jobes’s own former patients is interwoven throughout the manual….Provides a clear and flexible framework for the treatment of suicidal behavior in outpatient settings. Jobes offers an evidence-based treatment framework which was seemingly co-authored with his many patient-survivors of suicide over years of research and treatment. The manual provides important updates to the first edition which have resulted from rigorous evaluation of the CAMS model. With research support for CAMS growing, the second edition of Managing Suicidal Risk: A Collaborative Approach may become a relied-upon reference in the toolkit of clinicians and allied professionals who serve suicidal patients. (Journal of Contemporary Psychotherapy)
-John Douglas
384 pages, published in 1995.
Summary: Mind Hunter describes the distinguished career of former F.B.I. agent John Douglas. The text follows Douglas from the beginning of his F.B.I. career, through the pionering of criminal profiling and the forming of the F.B.I.’s Behavioral Science Unit. Douglas describes the infamous cases he was involved with, as well as, the profiling techniques he helped pioneer. He discusses the serial offenders that he interviewed over the years. Their methods, techniques and their motivation for the commission of their offenses. Perhaps most importantly, Douglas helps the reader to begin to make sense of the horrendous nature of the crimes of serial killers.
Comments: This text would best be described as a memoir. One that goes into great length to describe the final output of one law enforcement agent’s outstanding career dealing with and attempting to understand the nature of the serial offender. I found it to be a very fascinating read. (STS staff)
Note: Due to a technical glitch, the feed showing the presenter’s powerpoint slides was inoperative.
Program description from brochure:
A sense of entitlement and callous disregard for the rights and feelings of others are the captivating, irritating, and sometimes frightening behaviors that introduce us to individuals with these personality disorders. How can these people be so sensitive to criticism and humiliation? Why do they act with such rage when they don’t get what they want? Where is their empathy-if they had any to begin with-for the plight of others? How can a democratic, wealthy, and educated country appear to be a breeding ground for such self-centered, cold, aloof, unpleasant, and in some cases, very dangerous individuals? This presentation will explore the current state of the science in our diagnostic understanding and treatment of narcissistic and antisocial individuals, with a particular emphasis on differential issues, gender, psychotherapy, psychoanalysis, medication, psychopathy, dangerousness, and risk management.
The DSM-IV-TR diagnoses of NPD and ASPD
Measuring degrees of psychopathy
Psychological testing, interviewing, and independent data
Psychotherapy and psychoanalysis
Medication and risk management
The grandiose self and identification with the aggressor
Countertransference reactions
Resistances to treatment, and when not to treat
The primary or severe psychopath
On Demand Video
Continuing Education Credits available – watch the video, take notes, pass the test, print your certificate!
Home Study program duration (CE credit): 3.5 hours
Presenter: Reid Meloy, Ph.D.
Venue: Live Conference Presentation
Location: San Diego, CA
Obsessive-compulsive personality disorder is one of the most common clinical entities on Axis II of DSM-IV. It is frequently confused with obsessive-compulsive disorder, and the differences will be outlined. The psychodynamic underpinnings of OCPD will be discussed, and the optimal psychotherapeutic approaches will be illustrated. Randomized controlled trials validated the efficacy of psychodynamic psychotherapy in the treatment of OCPD.
Histrionic personality disorder has a time-honored tradition that links it with hysterical personality disorder. The two can be considered as residing on a continuum with histrionic personality disorder having more in common with borderline personality disorder, while hysterical personality disorder has more in common with character neuroses. Some of the underlying psychodynamic features will be discussed, and psychotherapeutic strategies will be outlined.
This training covers:
On Demand Video
Continuing Education (CE credit): 3.5 hours – watch the video, pass the test, print your certificate!
Presenter: Glen Gabbard, M.D.
Venue: Live Conference Presentation
Location: San Diego, CA
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.
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One of the important developmental starting points in understanding violence is that physical aggression is essentially universal in infants (and equally so for males and females). Early trauma creates risk that this early aggression will coalesce into violent behavior in adolescence. The experience of abuse sets the child up for the kind of “risky thinking” that leads to chronic patterns of aggression, bad behavior, acting out and violating the rights of others that can lead to a diagnosis of “conduct disorder.” If no intervention occurs, this pattern of childhood conduct disorder becomes the entryway into adolescent delinquent and antisocial violent behavior. The more socially toxic (and traumatic) the environment in which childhood and adolescence occur, the more likely it is that childhood conduct disorder will translate into adolescent violence. Changing patterns of aggression in girls provide a useful insight into how and why these processes take place. This presentation will analyze these behaviors in girls and boys for their similarities and differences and discuss the implications for violence in adolescence.
Four elements of “risky thinking” that link early trauma to conduct disorder in childhood
Three elements of social toxicity that affect the prognosis for childhood conduct disorder
Two risk factors and two protective factors affecting the impact of early trauma on subsequent aggression and violence
On Demand Video
Continuing Education (CE credit): 3.5 hours– watch the video, pass the test, print your certificate!
Presenter: James Garbarino, Ph.D.
Venue: Live Conference Presentation
Location: San Diego, CA
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Program description:
Research on personality disorder has increased considerably in recent years leading to fundamental changes in ideas about the structure, origins, classification, and treatment of this disorder. This talk will provide a broad overview of this work and its implications for assessment and treatment. Progress in understanding the dimensional structure of personality disorder will be discussed in terms of its implications for future classifications, assessment, and treatment planning. Traditional ideas that personality disorder arises from psychosocial adversity are being supplemented with an understanding of genetic influences on personality that have important implications for treatment and ideas about the nature of therapeutic change. It will be argued that these developments, along with the results of systematic evaluations of treatment outcome, point to the importance of an integrated and eclectic approach to treatment that combines strategies and interventions from different therapeutic models.
On Demand Video
Continuing Education (CE credit): 3.5 hours – watch the video, pass the test, print your certificate!
Presenter: John Livesley, M.D., Ph.D.
Venue: Live Conference Presentation
Location: San Diego, CA
