Suicide by Cop
$14.99Originally presented live in February, 2008, this brief training provides an overview of the phenomenon known as Suicide by Cop.
Running time: Approximately 35 minutes.
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Originally presented live in February, 2008, this brief training provides an overview of the phenomenon known as Suicide by Cop.
Running time: Approximately 35 minutes.
Contact Us for Continuing Education credits and costs.

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

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

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.

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:
Continuing Education* students will be supported to:
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.

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.
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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.
There is a “Train the Trainer” package available as well.
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1.800.848.1226


Cowritten by North American Dechefr trainer Diana M. Concannon, PsyD, PCI, CTM, and Dechefr developers Lisa Kaati, PhD and Nazar Akrami, PhD of Mind Intelligence Lab, the Dechefr Advanced Threat Assessment of Communications Professional Manual is the official manual for Dechefr, a structured professional judgment tool that leverages artificial intelligence, including language learning models, to assist in differentiating between threatening communications and those that signal a greater likelihood for mobilization to violence. Designed to assist those trained and certified to the Dechefr platform, the manual provides both practical guidance and case applications, as well as details Dechefr’s scientific foundation, including its reliability and validity measures.
For information on training and on obtaining a Dechefr software license and becoming a certified user, please contact info@specializedtraining.com.
For more information on the Dechefr software platform, please visit https://dechefr.com/index.html

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.

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:

“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.

-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

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:

Violence Assessment and Intervention: The Practitioners Handbook, Third Edition
2019, 490 pages
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