Course Description
*This complete Online Course includes a PDF of the book, Innovations in Clinical Practice: Focus on Violence Treatment & Prevention, and the Final Exam. If you have access to the book and want to purchase the Final Exam only, click here.
This program concentrates on a number of diverse issues associated with the causes, treatment, and prevention of violence. The topics covered will help you: analyze the developmental consequences of pervasive community violence; assess stalking victimization and intimate partner abuse; assess the impact of client characteristics and therapist variables when working with battered women; comprehensively assess risk in violent youth; create preventive methods for workplace violence; understand how settings impact school-based bullying; study prevention and intervention in maternal filicide; respond professionally to acts of terrorism; explore the clinical and ethical issues in the treatment of potentially violent individuals.
12 CE credits/hours (including 1 ethics credit & 2 domestic violence credits), 120 questions
Target Audience
Psychologists | School Psychologists | Marriage & Family Therapists | Mental Health Counselors | Social Workers
Learning Level
Intermediate
Learning Objectives
- Discuss the developmental consequences of pervasive community violence.
- Recognize stalking victimization and intimate partner abuse.
- Summarize the impact of client characteristics and therapist variables when working with battered women.
- Assess risk of violent youth.
- Demonstrate prevention and postvention of workplace violence.
- Explain the importance of settings in understanding school-based bullying.
- Define maternal filicide.
- Describe how psychology responds to terrorism.
- Summarize clinical and ethical issues in the treatment of violent individuals.

Thomas L. Jackson, PhD, & Leon VandeCreek, PhD
Course curriculum
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Statement of Understanding (downloadable/printable)
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2
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PDF Book (downloadable/printable)
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3
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"Innovations in Clinical Practice: Focus on Violence" - Final Exam Questions (downloadable/printable)
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Final Exam
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Evaluation Questionnaire
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