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Author Recommended  Psychosocial Evaluation Threat Risk Assessment 
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| Reducing the risk of school violence The purpose of this web site is to provide clinically based school personnel with professional methodology to reduce school violence by examining threats to mitigate violence in schools. Topics addressed include structuring the threat assessment process to reduce school violence. The documents on the right are provided for your convenience, simply click to download.
|  | The Threat Assessment Process. People seldom decide on the spur of the moment to solve a problem with violence. Rather, an act of violence is progressive with warning signs along the way; a threat of violence is one such observable behavior. Threatening behavior may reflect progress toward an approaching state of crisis. (more) | | |  | Threat Risk Assessment. Threats may be direct or indirect, specific and detailed or general, well thought out or impulsive and/or veiled, conditional, or implied. All express intent to harm and may be classified as low, medium, or high depending on the varying circumstances involved in the threatening behavior. (more) | | |  | Psychosocial Evaluation. Aggression. Depression. Alienation. Egocentricism. Coping with stress. Situations at home and school. A thorough threat assessment should include a study of these dynamic psychosocial characteristics as they serve as either protective or risk factors in most incidents of school violence. (more) | | |  | PETRA Response & Intervention. Effective administrative response to mitigate school violence must balance the need for appropriate discipline and the implementation of individualized interventions addressing the underlying issues that lead to the threatening behavior. (more)
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| |  | J. Schneller, PhD © 2006-2011 Updated 08 October, 2011 |  | |
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