Violence Risk and Threat Assessment (Day 1)
In-person Training
May 14, 2024, 9:30 AM - 4:00 PM ET
Clinicians in any treatment context—not just forensic settings—require some basic literacy in violence risk assessment and threat assessment. They should be able to explore any concerns about violence risk that emerge in routine practice, particularly those that might prompt a duty to warn. This training presents a primer in violence risk assessment and the related discipline of threat assessment in order to begin developing a literacy in these important skills, particularly for clinicians in community clinical practice.
Please Note: Day 2 is our traditional Violence Risk Assessment training that DBHDS requires of certain DBHDS staff and evaluators. Day 1 is not required of DBHDS staff, though it may be of interest, particularly to those in community settings. Potential attendees can sign up for either day or both days, as they see fit. There may be some redundancy across trainings (because certain information about risk assessment is important to any context), but much of the contents will differ.
Please inquire for a detailed agenda.
Learning Objectives
At the conclusion of the program, participants will be able to:
Describe current research relevant to assessing vioelnce risk in community clinical practice.
Learn and apply best-practice guidelines for assessing and responding to threats and violence risk in community clinical practice.
Practice applying this knowledge to real-world case examples, including analyzing scenarios in which a duty to warn does or does not apply.
The Instructors
Elisha Agee, PsyD, is a forensic clinical psychologist and Assistant Professor of Psychiatry & Neurobehavioral Sciences at the Institute of Law, Psychiatry, & Public Policy within the UVA School of Medicine. As a clinician, she performs forensic evaluations (e.g., competency, sanity, violence risk, sexual offending) for state and federal courts in Virginia, West Virginia, and Washington, D.C. She is also a primary clinical supervisor in the ILPPP postdoctoral fellowship programs. Her research interests include first episode psychosis, psychological trauma, violence risk, and law enforcement practices.
Anna Grace Burnette, PhD, is the Associate Director of Threat Assessment at the University of Virginia (UVA). She has authored peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters, including a feature in the International Handbook of Threat Assessment and Management. Her published research has primarily focused on distinguishing between serious and non-serious threats of violence, as well as establishing threat assessment as an evidence-based violence prevention practice in K-12 grade schools and universities.
Prior to joining the Threat Assessment Team, Dr. Burnette earned her doctorate degree in Clinical Psychology from UVA and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at UVA’s Institute of Law, Psychiatry, and Public Policy. She has worked across inpatient and outpatient settings in Virginia and Washington, D.C., conducting court-ordered and private forensic evaluations for a range of legal issues.
Daniel Murrie, PhD, serves as the ILPPP’s Associate Director, and as a Professor in the UVA Department of Psychiatry and Neurobehavioral Sciences. He oversees the UVA Forensic Clinic within ILPPP, the UVA postdoctoral fellowship in forensic psychology, and ILPPP’s state-university partnership to provide training programs in forensic evaluation.
As a clinician, Dr. Murrie performs forensic evaluations through the ILPPP’s Forensic Clinic, with an emphasis on capital cases. As a scholar, Dr. Murrie’s research and teaching address a variety of topics in forensic assessment, with a primary program of research addressing bias and quality control in forensic mental health evaluations. He also consults nationally with several states to improve forensic mental health service systems.
Neither the instructors nor the program planning committee (Daniel Murrie, Ph.D., Lucy Guarnera, Ph.D., & Angela Torres, Ph.D.) have any conflicts of interest or commercial support to disclose.
Continuing Education
Participants can expect to receive up to 5 hours of continuing education credits (CEUs) approved by the American Psychological Association (APA). ILPPP is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. ILPPP maintains responsibility for this program and its content.
We are currently in the process of offering continuing education for attorneys. Unfortunately, we cannot offer continuing education for psychiatrists or social workers at this time. Please contact us with any questions.
Training Fees
$250: Standard registration
$100: Employees of Virginia DBHDS or a Community Services Board (CSB)
Please note that the reduced rate is available only for DBHDS and CSB employees, rather than all state employees, because DBHDS partially sponsors this training program.
Occasionally large facilities or state agencies outside Virginia want to send a team of trainees, for whom we can arrange a discounted group rate. Please contact us to discuss such arrangements.
How to Register
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Cancellation Policy
You may cancel your registration up to 7 days before the event starts. Your confirmation email will have information on how to cancel. All refunds will be assessed by Eventbrite's service fee. This fee is 6.6% of the registration price + $1.79. This fee will be assessed regardless of when the cancellation occurs in relation to the date of the training.
Please allow 30 days to receive a refund. Refunds will be processed according to the original payment method.