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  • The Missing Piece: Your School Resource Officer as an Ally in Parenting

    The Missing Piece: Your School Resource Officer as an Ally in Parenting

    $15.99

    Paperback, November 6, 2022

    by Dr Beth J Sanborn

    The school environment is not the same as it was 20 or 30 years ago. Even though students are facing many of the same challenges such as bullying and insecurities, they’re experiencing them more frequently and more intensely than ever before. Advancements in technology and social media immortalize embarrassing moments and spread them faster than a virus. The culture of tobacco products, drugs, and alcohol has evolved beyond recognition. These products are now hidden in plain sight, more concentrated, and potentially more dangerous than ever before. If you’re thinking, My child would never!, then you’re already thinking too late.

    How much do you know about what’s really going on in your child’s school? Contrary to what we may see about policing in the news, the school resource officer is not there to get kids in trouble, proactively arrest them, or perpetuate the school-to-prison pipeline. Instead, we serve as law enforcement, an informal counselor/mentor, and public safety educator for our students. We have been trained in child development, de-escalation techniques, and how to encourage responsible decision-making. We are in the schools as a resource to students, parents, staff, and the community at large.

    This is my heart and soul. I live, eat, and breathe everything SRO. As a parent myself, my hope is to educate you on all of the ways we are here to support children and to dispel any preconceived notions about being the enemy. In reality, we are one of your child’s greatest resources, and I wouldn’t have it any other way!

    Purchase both this book and Piecing it Together in the same order and get both for $25.00. Use discount code: SRO25

    • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B0BLKPXY4C
    • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Independently published
    • Language ‏ : ‎ English
    • Print length ‏ : ‎ 154 pages
    • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 979-8359135559
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  • The Power of Prevention

    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

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

    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

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  • Threat Assessment: The State of the Science

    Threat Assessment: The State of the Science

    $19.99

    Originally presented live in February, 2011, Dr. Meloy provides an update on advances and research related to Behavioral Threat Assessment. Includes an overview of Structured Professional Judgment tools, including the WAVR-21 and the PCL-R.

    Run time: Approximately 1 hour and 12 minutes.

    This is the NON-CE Version (Video Only; no certificate). To purchase the Continuing Education version (with exam and certificate) or if you need a certificate for your employer, CLICK HERE

     
    This has been approved for 1.2 APA, SHRM, or ASIS Continuing Education hours/credits.



    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. AI was not used in the development of this program or any of its content.

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

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  • Violent Extremism: 2021 A Threat Assessment Update

    Violent Extremism: 2021 A Threat Assessment Update

    $119.99

    Speakers: Molly Amman, JD, CTM (FBI, ret.); Reid Meloy, PhD, ABPP; Philip Saragoza, MD; Stephen G. White, PhD 

    16 Continuing Education* hours available

    Workshop originally delivered via Zoom in May, 2021

    Domestic terrorism and extreme belief communities are on the rise in the United States as social and political polarization continues unabated. The recent attack on the US Capitol has dramatically demonstrated how serious and how dangerous these trends are in their reach and influence in our culture. Case studies will highlight the factors contributing to radicalization and culminating in the various pathways to extremist violence. Both online and on-ground investigations will be addressed, as will risk assessment instruments for targeted violence and lone actor terrorist violence.

    On Demand Video

    This is the NON-CE Version (Video Only; no certificate). To purchase the Continuing Education version (with exam and certificate) or if you need a certificate for your employer, CLICK HERE

    Continuing Education Credits: 3.5 hours

    Presenter: Reid Meloy, Ph.D.

    Venue: Live Conference Presentation

    Location: San Diego, CA

    Topics include:

    • Rising prevalence of violent extremism, conspiracy theory, extreme overvalued beliefs, stochastic terrorism, including incitement to violence from political leaders.
    • Specific belief systems and movements, including: accelerationism and anti-government, militia extremist movements (Boogaloo and the Oath Keepers)
    • White supremacist violence and The Great Replacement theory
    • The Incels and other extreme misogynists
    • Present-day conspiracy theories including QAnon and COVID-19 belief systems
    • Ideologically-motivated groups including Antifa and the Proud Boys; and other domestic terrorists

    Continuing Education* students will be supported to:

    1. Identify ideologically motivated groups in the US
    2. Define warning behaviors suggestive of intended violence
    3. Discuss the prevalence of extremism in the US
    4. Explain the ideology of different American hate groups

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

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

    This has been approved for 3.5 APA, SHRM, or ASIS Continuing Education hours/credits.



    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. AI was not used in the development of this program or any of its content.

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

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  • Workplace Violence Prevention

    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

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  • School Resource Bundle

    School Resource Bundle

    $76.99
    This special, discounted price is for the following four exceptional school-based resources:
    • Assessing Student Threats, Van Dreal
    • Youth Violence Prevention, Van Dreal
    • School Violence Threat Management, Mohandie
    • Threats in Schools, A Practical Guide for Managing Violence, McCann
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  • Dechefr Professional Manual

    Dechefr Professional Manual

    $199.95
    Dechefr Professional Manual
    NOW IN STOCK!
    Advanced Threat Assessment of Communications
    Leverage the power of AI and psycholinguistics to rapidly assess the threat level of written or transcribed communications. Created by Mind Intelligence Lab, Dechefr is a structured professional judgment tool that constructs a psychological profile to identify potential risk of targeted violence.
    Individual and corporate subscriptions are available
    For a free demo of the Dechefr, visit www.Dechefr.com
    Contact us for information on training. Info@SpecializedTraining.com
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  • The Risks Within: Preventing & Managing Workplace Violence

    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.

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  • Climate Informed Threat Assessment & Management

    Climate Informed Threat Assessment & Management

    $49.99

    By the year 2100, the term global warming will have been in use by the scientific community for more than a century.  The alarm about climate change will have been sounding for over 100 years.

    No one knows what the world will look like by then.  Not politicians. Not pundits. Not even climate scientists.

    What we do know is the effects of rising temperatures on a range of environmental changes from floods to droughts, wildfires, and sea level rise.

    And we know that rising temperatures increase risk for interpersonal aggression and violence.

    Migration and competition for scarce resources can lead to intergroup hostility, aggression, violence in the form of political conflict and war, extremism, and terrorism.

    Through this two-hour Climate-Informed Threat Assessment & Management workshop, you will be provided with actionable information that will allow you to incorporate climate change in evidence-based threat assessment and management protocols to support a more comprehensive approach to addressing contemporary risks.

    Two continuing education units are available for this course.

    Continuing Education Participants in this program will be supported to:

    1. Define climate literacy
    2. Describe the effects of climate change on the planet
    3. Identify three techniques that reduce risk of malpractice
    4. Describe the effects of climate change on human health
    5. List the effects of climate change on aggression and violence
    6. Incorporate climate change threat assessment and management in threat assessment practices
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  • Trigger Points: Inside the Mission to Stop Mass Shootings in America

    Trigger Points: Inside the Mission to Stop Mass Shootings in America

    $19.99

    “An urgent read that illuminates real possibility for change.” —John Carreyrou, New York Times bestselling author of Bad Blood

    For the first time, a story about the specialized teams of forensic psychologists, FBI agents, and other experts who are successfully stopping mass shootings—a hopeful, myth-busting narrative built on new details of infamous attacks, never-before-told accounts from perpetrators and survivors, and real-time immersion in confidential threat cases, casting a whole new light on how to solve an ongoing national crisis.

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  • Does Wednesday mean Mom’s house or Dad’s: Parenting Together While Living Apart

    Does Wednesday mean Mom’s house or Dad’s: Parenting Together While Living Apart

    $6.99

    -Marc Ackerman, Ph.D.
    Published in 1997, 206 pages

    Divorce is tough for everyone involved, but it can be especially devastating for children. Ultimately, how children are affected depends on how parents conduct themselves during this trying time. Dr. Ackerman coaches you on every aspect of the divorce, custody and co-parenting process. You’ll learn how to help your children deal with their feelings about divorce, and handle the changes in their lives. You’ll also get a wealth of practical information on what to expect in the legal process, the ins and outs of various custody arrangements and visitation plans, and how to avoid the pitfalls of parenting from a distance.

    Quotes: “…gives clear, practical guidelines to all parents who are wrestling with the pangs of separation and divorce.” – Lita Linzer Schwartz, Ph.D., ABPP

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  • Reading Red Flags, Separating Danger from Drama and Desire

    Reading Red Flags, Separating Danger from Drama and Desire

    Price range: $49.99 through $69.99

    Reading Red Flags in Threat Assessment: Separating Danger From Drama

    Presented by Wendy Patrick, JD, MDiv, PhD
    This seminar will teach you how to enhance your powers of perception by learning what to look for, where to look, and how to interpret what you see.  In this seminar, Wendy Patrick, author of “Red Flags,” will demonstrate how four areas of examination can revolutionize the way you perceive danger, manage dangerous people, and protect yourself as well as your community, illustrated through real case examples, corroborated by 25 years of practice, as well as abundant psychological research.

    This is an on-demand video that is sold with or without CE units.

    About Wendy Patrick, JD, MDiv, PhD:

    • Association of Threat Assessment Professionals Certified Threat Manager
    • Author of Red Flags: How to Spot Frenemies, Underminers, and Ruthless People
    • Co-author of New York Times bestseller Reading People (revision)
    • Author of Why Bad Looks Good: Biblical Wisdom to Make Smart Choices
    • Psychology Today columnist: Why Bad Looks Good
    • Host, Today with Dr. Wendy KCBQ radio
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  • Violence Assessment and Intervention: The Practitioner's Handbook, Third Edition

    Violence Assessment and Intervention: The Practitioner’s Handbook, Third Edition

    $74.99

    Violence Assessment and Intervention: The Practitioners Handbook, Third Edition

    2019, 490 pages

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  • A Comprehensive System for Preventive Behavioral Threat Assessment and Management in the Schools

    A Comprehensive System for Preventive Behavioral Threat Assessment and Management in the Schools (6.5 hours)

    $79.99

    This is a recorded virtual presentation that took place over two days in 2022. The training is designed to prepare professionals and paraprofessionals to utilize a Comprehensive System for Preventive Behavioral Threat Assessment and Management in school settings.  The training identifies differing levels of risk factors and provides an in-depth examination of sample cases in order to support risk assessment and management using the Salem-Keizer Cascade Model.

    6.5 continuing education units are available for this course.

    Participants in the program will be supported to:

    1. Identification of key elements of effectively managing dangerous and problematic behavior.  
    2. Identification of varying levels of risk using the Student Threat Assessment and Management Systems model.
    3. Use of the Salem-Keizer Cascade Model to assess and inform violence risk in school settings.  

    Contact Us for Continuing Education credits and costs.

    John Van Dreal

    John is a school psychologist and the retired director of security, safety, and risk management for the Salem-Keizer School District. He has more than 30 years of experience in preventive behavioral threat assessment and emergency management, psycho-educational evaluation, crisis intervention, behavioral intervention, and security and risk management systems consultation. He is recognized internationally as an expert in campus threat assessment and as a pioneer of multidisciplinary school threat assessment.

    In 1999, he began the development and implementation of the Salem-Keizer Cascade Model, a multiagency student violence prevention and behavioral threat assessment system that is considered by experts to be a leading practice and is identified by the U.S. Department of Education and the What Works Clearinghouse as a best-practice program. In addition to behavioral threat assessment, the collaborative, multidisciplinary Cascade BTA model is now a comprehensive preventive assessment and safety planning system that includes suicide risk assessment and prevention, fire misbehavior assessment, and problematic sexual behavior assessment and management. Through that collaboration, he has worked daily with educators, law enforcement, human resources, trial court personnel, juvenile justice, and mental health professionals in the assessment and management of youth and adult threats of aggression within schools, higher education, public and private institutions, and the community.

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