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Prevention in practice: how evidence-based threat assessment applies to the headlines.
Homicidality Scales: What Clinicians Need to Know About Measuring Homicidal Ideation
When a client discloses that they're thinking about harming someone, clinicians often reach for validated instruments. Here's what actually exists, where the evidence is strongest, and why structured clinical judgment remains indispensable.
Read morePrevention InsightsWhen the Answer Is Not a Threat: Why Proportionality Makes Prevention Work
Most concerns raised through a threat assessment process are not threats, and that is the process working. A calibrated screen that can rule something out, with a record showing why, is what keeps people willing to report the next ambiguous concern.
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- Steps in a Homicide Risk Assessment: What the Process Actually Requires
- How Structured Scales Assess and Track Homicide Plan Formation
- What Is Behavioral Risk Assessment? A Structured Guide for Educators, Clinicians, and Organizations
- Closing the Bystander Gap: Why Prevention Depends on Someone Speaking Up
- The Sheehan-Homicidality Tracking Scale (S-HTS): Structure and Clinical Use
- Homicide Assessment Tool: What It Is, What It Measures, and How Teams Select One
- The Research Behind Behavioral Risk Assessment: What Changed the Field
- What Is a Homicidal Assessment Tool? Structure, Use, and Evidence
- Behavioral Risk Assessment Outside the Clinic: A Structured Approach for Organizations Without Mental Health Staff
- Behavioral Risk Assessment Tools: What They Measure, How They Differ, and What to Look For
- What a Thorough Homicide Risk Assessment Actually Looks Like
- What Do We Mean When We Say Severity? Rating Homicide Risk in Clinical Practice
- Clinical Settings, Real Risk: How Healthcare Staff Can Act on What They Notice
- Before You Trust AI With a Threat Assessment: Seven Questions to Ask Any Vendor
- When Grievance Becomes Fixation: Recognizing an Escalating Warning Pattern
Reddit AMA Archive: Violence Prevention & Behavioral Threat Assessment
Dr. Robert Moore answered the Reddit community's questions on threat assessment, the "off-ramps" concept for homicidal ideation, and more.
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School Threat Assessment Teams
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Threat assessment program could help prevent school shootings
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Why you should take a break: Prioritizing mental health in schools
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Woman charged over online threat to blow up Nashville school
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