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Revised and updated with the latest scientific research and case studies, the business classic that offers a revealing looks at psychopaths in the workplace – how to spot their destructive behavior and stop them from creating chaos in the modern corporate organization. Snakes in Suits: When Psychopaths go to Work Paul Babiak, Ph.D & Robert…
Published 2008. 474 pages.
Public figures require attention, whether from a constituency who votes them in or out of office, shareholders who decide their economic benefit to the corporation, or fans who judge their performances. However, on the periphery of this normal attention resides a very real risk; that of a much smaller group of individuals who lack the ability to discriminate between their own private fantasies and the figure’s public behavior. They may be personally insulted by perceived betrayal, fanatically in love due to a perceived affectionate or sexual invitation, or simply preoccupied with the daily life of the public figure. Such individuals may fixate and do nothing more. Others communicate or approach in a disturbing way. A few will threaten. And on rare occasions, one will breach the public figure’s security perimeter and attack.
Stalking, Threatening, and Attacking Public Figures is a comprehensive survey of the current knowledge about stalking, violence risk, and threat management towards public figures. With contributions from forensic psychologists and psychiatrists, clinicians, researchers, attorneys, profilers, and current and former law enforcement enforcement professionals, this book is the first of its kind, international in scope, and rich in both depth and complexity.
The book is divided into three sections which, in turn, focus upon defining, explaining, and risk managing this increasingly complex global reality. Chapters include detailed case studies, analyses of quantitative data, reflections from attachment theory and psychoanalytic thought, descriptions of law enforcement and protective organization activities, mental health and psychiatric categorizations and understandings, consideration of risk assessment models and variables, victim perspectives, and others.
Published in 2001, 363 pages
Contents
1. The Stop Child Molestation Plan: Into a New Era
2. Childhood Beginnings of the Desire to Molest
3. Child Molesters by Accident
4. Victims of Molestation Who Become Molesters
5. A Child Molester in the Family: Father Molests Daughter
6. The Magic of Early Diagnosis
7. Treatment: The Medicines and the Therapies
8. How Many Children can you Save?
Appendices
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.
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Program description from brochure:
It was well known that many examples of youth-perpetrated catastrophic violence were carried out by highly disturbed young men who were fundamentally suicidal. In many such cases, the suicidal risk of youth perpetrators is well known to parents, teachers, administrators, law enforcement personnel, and mental health professionals, yet tragic outcomes still occur. This presentation will offer practical information on the assessment of suicide risk, the interplay between suicidal and homicidal behaviors and a full range of intervention strategies suitable to a variety of settings. Using a lively case example approach, this presentation will provide critical information about how suicidal youth think, feel, and behave. Contemporary issues such as the influence of media, the role of internet, and peer influences will also be considered. Bottom-line, this training will enable participants to better recognize who is at risk for suicide and what can realistically be done to intervene and save lives.
On Demand Video
Continuing Education (CE credit): 3.5 hours. Contact Us for Continuing Education credits and costs.
Presenter: David Jobes, Ph.D.
Venue: Live Conference Presentation
Location: San Diego, CA
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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.
Stanley Brodsky, Ph.D.
208 pages, published in 1991
Extremely well written, Testifying in Court provides the reader with a unique perspective on providing court testimony. It serves the reader by demonstrating an alternative approach to courtroom testimony in theory, as well as in application.
Original Program Description:
Testifying in court is a time of anxiety for the first time witnesses and aggressive cross-examinations are particularly stressful, even for the experienced witness. This workshop begins by presenting ways of understanding the common problems faced on the witness stand. No techniques can take the place of good knowledge and careful preparation, and the foundations of such knowledge and preparation are described. The masterful expert witness knows what to expect in direct examinations and in cross-examinations. Drawing on the professional literature, on scientific findings, and on his own experience in court, Dr. Brodsky will present pathways towards reducing anxiety on the witness stand and specific methods for dealing with the most aggressive cross-examinations. This workshop will be didactic in part, but will use a highly interactive format. Participants will have the opportunity to try out the techniques presented for deflecting and mastering cross-examination challenges to their experience, to their thoroughness, to their competency, and to their impartiality. The workshop will include examples of worst scenario examinations and will draw on examples from Dr. Brodsky’s recent testimony.
Topics may include:
Preparation for testimony, Meeting with counsel
The direct examination, Coping with examination in depositions
Nonverbal behaviors and communication: Gestures, voice, and posture
Handling anxiety about testimony, Specific techniques for mastery of the witness role
Suspicion-evoking and trust-evoking testimony, Findings from the Witness Research Lab
Coping with Cross-Examination: General considerations, The Push-Pull, The Admit-Deny, Answer yes or no, Eye Contact, Pace and Thought, Personal Space, Negative Assertions, Damage Control
Examples of challenging and difficult questions and answers
Gender and attempted invasions of personal privacy on the stand, After your testimony
On Demand Video
Continuing Education (CE credit): 6.5 hours – watch the video, take notes, pass the test, print your certificate!
Presenter: Stanley Brodsky, PhD
Venue: Live Conference Presentation
Location: San Jose, CA
Threat Assessment and Management Strategies: Identifying the Hunters and Howlers, Second edition
The field of threat assessment and the research surrounding it have exploded since the first edition of Threat Assessment and Management Strategies: Identifying the Howlers and Hunters. To reflect those changes, this second edition contains more than 100 new pages of material, including several new chapters, charts, and illustrations, as well as updated cases.
The book has been reorganized into two parts. The first part offers the authors’ current thinking on how to conduct practical and effective threat management processes. The second provides an in-depth analysis of how howlers and hunters behave and how understanding those behaviors can be used to manage each type of problem individual.
This new edition draws on the latest research, as well as ideas and concepts from the authors’ previous books. It integrates the sum of their careers in threat management—both their individual experiences managing problem situations and their research and writing on the topic—into a single volume. As in each of their previous books, it focuses on operationally effective and practical methods for managing problem situations.
This book also covers special issues in threat management, exploring the relationship between the law and the intimacy effect as well as different ways to identify, assess, and manage howlers and hunters. Each chapter concludes with a real-life situation analysis relevant to the subject under focus.
Drawing upon the latest research and on the previous work of its authors, Threat Assessment and Management Strategies, Second Edition provides a complete guide to setting up successful threat management processes. It approaches the presented strategies as guidelines rather than prescriptions, emphasizing that threat managers must use their intelligence and originality to modify strategies as necessary to suit each situation.
2016, 259 pages
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.
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Published 2002, 154 pages
Joseph T. McCann, PsyD, JD
In the wake of several highly publicized school shootings, the problem of school violence has increasingly become a focus of concern for the general public as well as teachers, school officials, and students. Drawing on case studies from publicized violent incidents as well as from Dr. McCann’s private practice, Threats in Schools: A Practical Guide for Managing Violence provides techniques for identifying, conceptualizing, assessing, and managing threatening behavior by students in school settings. Offering specific case management strategies for a variety of situations, this indispensable volume provides guidance on formulating questions to ask and suggestions for developing strategies for managing potentially violent situations.
Integrating threat assessment and risk management models, this approach will help you target potential threats to property, other students, teachers, and school staff. The interdisciplinary approach recognizes that violent behavior is dependent on the characteristics of the perpetrator, victim, and setting, and that the relationship between threats and violence is not always clear.
Threats in Schools offers well-grounded research, detailed case studies, and theoretical approaches to help you deal with the tough issues, including:
“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.
This unique ninety-minute, virtual presentation takes a fresh look at what we know about nonverbal communications and how they can be used in a professional, clinical or personal setting. The training focuses on those human behaviors that professionals must recognize which have a high reliability and are useful in assessing others. It will also provide a roadmap for conducting better, more empathic interviews and interpersonal communication.
Taught by noted spy catcher, Joe Navarro, the training exposes behaviors (some often ignored) that are useful in understanding the feelings, thoughts, desires, intentions, preferences, fears, and concerns of others. It will examine each area of the body that may be helpful in decoding the true thoughts and emotions of others. Gestures, facial expressions and body movement will be examined within their context for meaning. Additionally, the workshop will focus on other nonverbals, including the tone of voice and cadence of speech which have been shown to establish greater rapport and trust.
The workshop will also identify those nonverbals which do not have clear meaning and from which behavior is often misinterpreted. The training will also explore the limits of nonverbals, including the danger of trying to use nonverbal communications to detect deception. This program will be of great value to mental health professionals, law enforcement/security, corporate, sales and a variety of other professions.
Want something more in-depth? Check out Joe’s Body Language Academy (www.jnbodylanguageacademy.com). There you will find a 60 hour program, complete with CE’s. Better yet, get a solid introduction to nonverbal communication through this program and then go for the more in-depth program.
Workshop Content:
What are nonverbals and why are they so important.
Which areas of the body are more honest than others. Why the feet are the most honest part of the body.
The fifteen most accurate behaviors that reveal issues, concerns, dislike, disdain, or some form of psychological discomfort.
Myths about nonverbals as they relate to deception and eye behavior.
How we can use nonverbals to convey empathy.
How nonverbals encompass more than body language and what that means for influencing others.
How to assess properly for the spatial needs of others.
Behaviors that alert us to serious issues between couples.
What are some best practices for professionals in virtual environment.
Nonverbal mistakes to avoid.
Workshop Objectives:
Identify three areas of the body where nonverbals are most honest
Describe how to use nonverbals to convey empathy
Identify five behaviors that convey discomfort
Demonstrate two behavior that may alert us to serious issues between a couple
List three practices that professionals should use in a virtual environment
Describe the most common myths regarding nonverbals as they relate to detecting deception
Violence Assessment and Intervention: The Practitioners Handbook, Third Edition
2019, 490 pages
230 pages, published by Specialized Training Services 08/00
ISBN: 0970318901 / Paperback
Perhaps the most readable and practical book on violence risk ever written. Reflects the standard of practice in the field.
“Reid Meloy is a leader in the arena and I highly recommend this book to members of the criminal justice and mental health communities. He has written about a very complex subject in a clear and understandable manner, insuring that this book will become a standard for others.” Roy Hazelwood, M.S., FBI (ret.)
Table of contents:
Chapter 1 – Introduction
Chapter 2 – Some Necessary to Understand Technical Models
Chapter 3 – Model for Assessing Violence Risk
Chapter 4 – Individual/Psychological Domain
Chapter 5 – Social/Environmental Domain
Chapter 6 – Biological Domain
Chapter 7 – Applying the Model
Chapter 8 – Affective and Predatory Violence
Chapter 9 – Psychopathy
Chapter 10 – Other Risk Assessment Instruments
Chapter 11 – Threatening Communications
Chapter 12 – Stalking (Obsessional Following)
Chapter 13 – New Research on Targeted Violence
Chapter 14 – Communicating Risk
Chapter 15 – Professional Office Safety, Footnotes, Recommended Books, Acknowledgments
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.
Topics include:
Continuing Education* students will be supported to:
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