Developing Clinical Expertise in Violence and Risk Assessment
With a Special Topic on Serious Mental Illnesses and the Legal System
for Nebraska licensed clinicians
Presented by Dr. Mario Scalora
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Videos
The following videos include Part 1 and Part 2 of Dr. Mario Scalora's training, “Developing Clinical Expertise in Violence and Risk Assessment: With a Special Topic on Serious Mental Illness and the Legal System.” This training enhances and promotes statewide clinical expertise in violence risk and threat assessment in Nebraska.
Developing Clinical Expertise in
Violence and Risk Assessment: Part 1
(Mario Scalora)
Developing Clinical Expertise in
Violence and Risk Assessment: Part 2
(Mario Scalora)
Description:
This workshop enhances and promotes statewide clinical expertise in violence risk and threat assessment in Nebraska. Practitioners address risk assessment and management issues in their clinical activity. The literature regarding key concepts of risk assessment and threat assessment will be reviewed, including relevant dynamic and static risk and protective factors. Illuminated by case scenarios, the presenter will detail the roles (i.e. linkage and overlap) of risk assessment and threat assessment across different applied contexts.
Date Presented: Mon., June. 26, 2023 9:00am – 1:00pm CDT
Date Training Expires: June 26, 2025
Objectives:
- Articulate key concepts of risk assessment and threat assessment as informed by the current literature.
- Enumerate relevant dynamic and static risk and protective factors.
- Apply the integration of risk and threat assessment principles to case examples.
- Articulate interview strategies that facilitate elicitation of relevant risk and threat assessment information.
Instructional Level: Advanced
Supporting Material
About the Presenter
Dr. Mario Scalora
Dr. Mario Scalora is the director of the Public Policy Center and a professor of psychology with the Clinical Training and Law-Psychology Programs at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, as well as coordinating an active academic research program engaging in collaborative research in targeted violence. He received his B.S. in psychology from St. Joseph’s University and his Ph.D. in psychology from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.