How Dangerous is this Person... this Client?
3.0 CE Hours
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Description
How dangerous is the client? Is there a likelihood of physical assault on another person? There are often complex issues and circumstances that make a child or teen (and adult) "act out" or become moody. Effective treatment comes from appropriate assessments of client personality, issues, and circumstances that lead to theoretical clarity that subsequently imply treatment approaches and interventions. The training will help clinicians differentiate among
• individuals with challenging behaviors, that however, are relatively simple and benign to deal with (low potential for aggression and/or violence)
• individuals with more problematic episodic and/or more intense behaviors (moderate potential for aggression and/or violence)
• individuals with high potential for aggression and/or violence
• individuals with challenging behaviors, that however, are relatively simple and benign to deal with (low potential for aggression and/or violence)
• individuals with more problematic episodic and/or more intense behaviors (moderate potential for aggression and/or violence)
• individuals with high potential for aggression and/or violence
Educational Goal
The educational goal of this training is for participants to learn how to assess the violence potential of clients and understand the appropriate action to take in order to protect the safety of both the community and the clients themselves based on clinical, ethical, and legal requirements.
Learning Objectives
Participants will be able to:
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Identify fifteen criteria to base assessment of violence potential of clients.
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Identify which criteria allows for more probable successful strategies versus difficult if not blocked strategies for intervention.
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Describe how different profiles based on the fifteen criteria are comparable to identifiable personality disorder diagnoses.
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Explain how and when clients or persons have greater potential to become emotionally, verbally, or physically assaultive or violent.
Target Audience
- Addiction Professional
- Counselor
- Marriage & Family Therapist
- Psychologist
- Social Worker
Presenters
Ronald Mah, MA, PhD. LMFT practices psychotherapy. Background: education, multi-cultural, & social services; author books on discipline & behavior, therapy according to emotional, cognitive, social, & cultural roots that led to current behavior for people. Co-Director of the MFT Masters at the Western Institute for Social Research, Berkeley. Service on Board of Directors of the California Kindergarten Association and the California Association of Marriage & Family Therapists.
Financially Sponsored By
- Ronald Mah