Understanding the Psychological Dynamics of Active Shooters— Offering a Violence Risk and Threat Assessment Approach for Educational Professionals & Public Safety Personnel

When

08/07/2015    
8:00 am - 4:00 pm

Where

MTU 9
10000 South Centennial, Sandy, UT, 84070

Event Type

 

Understanding the Psychological Dynamics of Active Shooters— Offering a Violence Risk and Threat Assessment Approach for Educational Professionals & Public Safety Personnel

Instructor: Dr. Robert J. Cipriano, Jr.

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This (8-hour) class offers a comprehensive picture of the psychological and behavioral aspects of adult and adolescent active shooters.  The program covers the below objectives and utilizes the behavioral sciences as a foundation for violence risk and threat assessment needed to potentially identify and mitigate such a threat.  This training will provide an overall portrait of recent and well-known active and school shooter incidents, prevention indicators, threat assessment, and what has been learned from such incidents to potentially prevent such acts of violence.

Understanding the Psychological Dynamics of Active Shooters (particularly Adult Shooters)

Learning Objectives:

     I.        Defining Active Shooters- Characteristics of Active Shooters

    II.        3 Groupings of Active Shooters; Sociopathic/Narcissistic Active Shooter; Delusional Shooter

  III.        The Severely Depressed and Suicidal Active Shooter

   IV.        The Dynamics of Suicide

    V.        Case Discussion on Andrews Breivik (The Norway Active Shooter); Seung Hui Cho (The Virginia Tech Shooter); & Adam Lanza Active Shooter in Newtown, CT

Understanding the Psychological Dynamics of School Shooters (particularly Adolescent Shooters)

Learning Objectives:

     I.        Defining School Shooters and Understanding how personality dynamics, substance abuse related issues, mental illness, and/or emotional/behavioral reactions to being “Bullied” can ignite such violence

    II.        Understanding the dynamic of “Cynical Shyness” and how this dynamic plays a significant role in “Momentum Build Up” resulting in an acts of violence against an individual/s within a school

  III.        What role does family, the school, and the communities play in the “Momentum Build Up” phases and “Missed Signals” regarding the development of such an act of violence

   IV.        How does the perception of the school and a perceived sense of “Injustice” act as a catalyst and add “fuel” to carry out such crimes against those perceived as a “Threat” as well as contribute to feelings of alienation, rejection, and abandonment on behalf of the aggressor

    V.        Understanding the Connection between Suicide and School Shooters

   VI.        Threat Assessment and Interventions for Public Safety Personnel (Educational Professionals, Law Enforcement, EMT- Fire Rescue, Military)

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