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Violence Assessment and Intervention
Violence Assessment and Intervention: The Practitioner’s Handbook, now in its third edition, provides a proven methodology, grounded in the current empirical research and the authors’ experience in successfully assessing and managing thousands of cases in a variety of contexts and environments, for analyzing concerning behaviors and potential threatening situations, and taking action in these challenging, dynamic environments before tragedy occurs. Threat and violence assessment and management is an essential process in reducing violence and its consequences. The ongoing challenge for those assessors, particularly in common workplace environments (e.g., educational settings, public agenc...
Ending Campus Violence
With the growth of threats and violence in higher education settings, college campuses are increasingly expected to have systems in place to identify potentially aggressive individuals and intervene to ensure the safety of the campus population. This book will be useful for student affairs professionals as well as college counselors, psychologists, social workers interested in the practical management of aggression and violence on a college campus. It will also be a valuable resource for those involved in creating and running behavioral intervention teams and threat/risk assessment teams. Ten case studies from both the community and residential college settings provide a comprehensive overvi...
Violence Assessment and Intervention
Behavioral science has revealed a wealth of information concerning violence assessment in a wide variety of situations, but the challenge confronted by those dealing with potentially hostile populations is the effective application of this knowledge. Now in its second edition, Violence Assessment and Intervention: The Practitioner‘s Handbook, Secon
Threat and Violence Interventions
Threat and Violence Interventions: The Effective Application of Influence evaluates threat and violence risk for various levels of mental health practitioners, law enforcement officers, security professionals, human resource professionals, attorneys, and academics in forensic psychology, sociology, criminology and law. Currently, both empirical and practical literature has focused, to an almost exclusive extent, on the assessment of human behavior and propensity for violence. However, most cases of high concern for potential physical violence arise from individuals who have yet to act in ways the criminal justice system can address. This book broaches the topic, exploring tactics and providing practical, concrete suggestions. - Focuses on how to influence specific outcomes relating to high risk behaviors - Analyzes the biological, psychological, sociological, contextual and environmental information learned from risk assessment - Concentrates on a specific area of analysis and/or techniques
Charters of the Vicars Choral of York Minster
This collection of charters, published in 1993, illuminates the ecclesiastical, economic and social history of medieval York.
Violence Assessment and Intervention
If you are responsible for people, they want and expect you to keep them safe on a regular basis. Violence Assessment and Intervention: The Practitioner’s Handbook shows you the most effective way to take the initial data and make quick decisions about whether the situation requires an immediate response with full resources or a less intense response. It gives you easy access to the information you need not only to handle emergency situations, but also to prevent them. The principle focus of this book is not sociological theory, or even clinical assessment, but practical intervention, monitoring, and control of violence. It presents techniques for use in any situation, whether you are a me...
International Handbook of Threat Assessment
"This introductory chapter sets forth three foundations for threat assessment and management: the first foundation is the defining of basic concepts, such as threat assessment and threat management; the second foundation outlines the similarities and differences between threat assessment and violence risk assessment; the third foundation is a detailed overview of the research findings, theoretical avenues, measurement instruments, and developments in practice over the past quarter century. The goal of our chapter is to introduce the professional reader to the young scientific field of threat assessment and management, and to clarify and guide the seasoned professional toward greater excellence in his or her work"--
Heart of Blue
When you work at something for 39 years, you're bound to have a lot of memories. When the labor at hand is Kentucky basketball, well, the memories truly are unlimited. Cawood Ledford has chosen his favorite memories since his illustrious career as the "Voice of the Wildcats" began in 1953. From the Fiddlin' Five to the Unforgettables. From the heart-stopping 1978 NCAA title game to the heart-breaking Duke game in 1992. Cawood shares emotions that can be evoked by only those who possess a Heart of Blue
The Miler
A Kentucky mountain boy in the 1950s is driven by a recurring dream of a Cherokee runner the century before. An unlikely coach finds the lone runner drained by stress over the decline of his father, and trains him to take on the mystery of his life and the challenge of Time itself.
