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This webinar will 1) focus on the nature of severe or lethal intimate partner violence, 2) provide a review of risk assessment tools for severe or lethal intimate partner violence, and 3) outline a model for evaluating severe or lethal intimate partner violence that considers three primary facets of the severe or lethal intimate partner violence: acute conflict, capacity for serious violence, and severe disinhibition.

Presenter: Dr Jack Rozel, MD, MSL, DFAPA

Most violence is not due to mental illness or people with mental illness.  Most people with mental illness are never violent.  Nonetheless, threat management professionals need to understand how mental illness and targeted violence can and do intersect and, most importantly, how to investigate and manage cases where there is a potential intersection of violence risk and mental illness.  This presentation will provide an update on the evidence about mental illness and targeted and mass violence, explore the implications and limitations of the available scientific literature, and explore practical applications of these findings for threat management professionals.

This session will focus on helping practitioners understand the construction, indicators, behavioral pathways, and contextual risks associated with improvised explosive devices across the African landscape. While the technical details matter, my goal is to translate those concepts into practical threat assessment insights that support early identification, informed decision-making, and community safety.