PRPress Online Courses

*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.