Assessment & Management of Stalking using the SAM
20 hours | 20 CEs
This on-demand professional training program on Assessment & Management of Stalking using the SAM is presented by P. Randall Kropp, PhD, in partnership with Protect International Risk and Safety Services.
This program provides a set of comprehensive, structured professional judgment guidelines for assessing and managing the risk for stalking. The SAM incorporates the latest advances in the SPJ approach to risk assessment, including violence risk formulation and scenario planning methods. Initial research has demonstrated the SAM’s promise for its use by professionals working with stalkers and their victims, with results showing the SAM has good reliability and validity (Kropp, Hart, Lyon, & Storey, 2011).
Intended Audience
This on-demand professional training program is intended for mental health and other allied professionals
Experience Level
This on-demand professional training program is appropriate for beginner, intermediate, and advanced level clinicians.
CE / CPD Credit
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Learning Objectives
Upon completion of this program you will be able to:
Describe how the SAM incorporates the latest advances in the SPJ approach to risk assessment
Describe key concepts for assessing & managing risk for stalking behavior
Describe strengths & weaknesses of SPJ instruments
Describe how to rate the risk factors on the SAM
Describe methods of violence risk formulation & scenario planning
Describe how the SAM can be implemented in practice to formulate cases
Describe the reliability and validity of the SAM
Describe relevant research on the SAM and its use for professionals
Describe key concepts for assessing and managing risk for stalking behavior
Analyze and implement the SAM in case studies
Presented By
P. Randall Kropp, PhD
Dr. P. Randall Kropp is a clinical and forensic psychologist specializing in the assessment and management of violent offenders. He works as a threat assessment specialist for Protect International Inc., is a psychologist with the Forensic Psychiatric Services Commission of British Columbia, Canada,...
Curriculum
1. Introduction
2. Using Guidelines
3. Violence: A Framework
4. Structured Professional Judgement
5. Case Study Malone
6. Interview: Webb
7. Case Discussion: Webb
8. Case Study
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Program Partner
Protect International Risk and Safety Services
We are proud to partner with Protect International Risk and Safety Services for this training. Protect International's threat assessment professionals are internationally recognized experts that have developed some of the world's most widely used and best-validated threat assessment tools. Protect International provides services and products related to violence risk assessment and management, also known as threat assessment and management. Protect International services and products include threat assessment training and support, case assessment and management, legal consultation, policy review and development, and program evaluation and research; along with threat assessment manuals, worksheets, licenses, and software applications for those tools.
CE Sponsorship Information
Palo Alto University, Continuing and Professional Studies (CONCEPT) is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. Palo Alto University, Continuing and Professional Studies (CONCEPT) maintains responsibility for this program and its content. Palo Alto University, Continuing and Professional Studies (CONCEPT) is approved by the Canadian Psychological Association to offer continuing education for psychologists. Palo Alto University, Continuing and Professional Studies (CONCEPT), SW CPE is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed social workers #SW-0356 and the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed mental health counselors. #MHC-0073. Palo Alto University, Continuing and Professional Studies (CONCEPT) has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 6811. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. CONCEPT Professional Training, #1480, is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organizations, not individual courses, are approved as ACE providers. State and provincial regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for continuing education credit. CONCEPT Professional Training maintains responsibility for this course. ACE provider approval period: 11/22/23-11/22/26. Social workers completing this course receive (clinical or social work ethics) continuing education credits.