Course curriculum

  1. 1

    • How to use this course

    • Training Disclaimer

    • A quick Note About This Course

    • Before we begin...

    • Welcome!

    • Course Overview
  2. 2

    • Averting Targeted Violence

    • Quote from Einstein

    • Survey Einstein's Quote

    • Where do we begin?

    • BTAM Introduction

    • Critical Components of School Behavioral Threat Assessments
  3. 3

    • Chapter 2: Objectives

    • Introduction Into Understanding School Behavioral Threat Assessments

    • USSS - Averting Targeted Violence

    • Introduction Into School Behaviroal Threat Assessments

    • What a School Behavioral Threat Assessment Is

    • What a School Behavioral Threat Assessment Is Not

    • School Behavioral Threat Assessment - A Comparative Overview

    • School Behavioral Threat Assessment Process

    • Threat Assessment vs. Vulnerability Assessment

    • Understanding School Risk Assessments Verusus Vulnerability Assessments

    • Profiling and Behavioral Threat Assessments

    • Test Your Learning Chapter 2
  4. 4

    • Chapter 3 Objectives

    • United States Secret Service Says We Need Threat Assessment Teams in Schools

    • Identifying, Preventing and Intervening Acts of Violence

    • Guiding Principles of Behavioral Threat Assessments

    • Critical Components of Effective Threat Assessment

    • Bark vs Bite

    • Bark Versus Bite Review

    • Cooperation and Corroboration in Threat Assessment

    • Test Your Learning Chapter 3
  5. 5

    • Chapter 4 Objectives

    • Understanding the Pathway to Violence

    • The Pathway to Violence Explained

    • Elaborating on the Steps Along the Path to Violence

    • Implications for Prevention

    • Test Your Learning Chapter 4
  6. 6

    • Chapter 5: Addressing Students of Concern

    • Radicalization to Violence

    • FBI and Homeland Security Warn About Domestic Terrorism

    • Domestic Violent Extremists (DVEs)

    • Preventing Violent Extremism

    • Potential Risk Factors, Indicators, and Characteristics of Susceptibility to Radicalization to Violence

    • Signs of Distress

    • Disconnection

    • Disclosure

    • Fire-Setting Behaviors and Animal Cruelty as Precursors to Violence

    • School Violence is Preventable

    • Test Your Learning Chapter 5
  7. 7

    • Chapter 6 Objectives: Overcoming the Bystander Effect and the Ostrich Paradox

    • The Ostrich Paradox and Its Relationship to the Bystander Effect

    • The Ostrich Paradox Explained

    • The Bystander Effect

    • The Bystander Effect Explained

    • The Community's Role in Reporting

    • What to Report

    • Test Your Learning Chapter 6
  8. 8

    • Chapter 7 Objectives: Understanding the Law and Our Responsibilities

    • SB-906: Ed Code 49390-49395

    • Due Diligence

    • SB-906 Definitions

    • SB-906 What is a Homicidal Threat?

    • SB-906 Mandated Reporting

    • Test Your Learning Chapter 7
  9. 9

    • FERPA and HIPAA: Key Considerations for Threat Assessment Teams

    • Understanding FERPA

    • FERPA Health and Emergency Exception

    • Understanding HIPAA

    • HIPAA The Serious Danger to Self or Others Exception
  10. 10

    • Bibliography of Works Cited or Referenced

    • Key Points Module Survey

    • Closing Statement and Exit Instructions