Assessing Student Threats: Implementing the Salem-Keizer System - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1475830513 ISBN 13: 9781475830514

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2016

Synopsis

Assessing Student Threats: Implementing the Salem-Keizer System, 2nd Edition is a manual for the application of a threat assessment system that follows the recommendations of the Safe Schools Initiative and the prescriptive outline provided by the FBI. Written from an educator's perspective with contributing authors from Law Enforcement, Public Mental Health, and the District Attorney's office, it contains an introduction to the basic concepts of threat assessment, a review of the research, and an outlined process for the application of a comprehensive, yet expeditious multi-disciplinary system. The book also includes the forms and protocols needed to assess threats, document concerns and interventions, and track the progress of supervision. As extra features, chapters on site security, community safety, domestic violence and teen dating violence, communicating with potential victims, training school resource officers, adult threat assessment, and an adaptation of the system for higher education are included.

About this title

About the Author

John Van Dreal is the Director of Safety and Risk Management Services for Salem-Keizer Public Schools. He has almost three decades of experience as a School Psychologist conducting psychoeducational evaluation, crisis assessment and intervention, behavioral intervention, and systems consultation. In 1999, he began the development and implementation of the multi-agency Student Threat Assessment System reviewed within this book. Through that collaboration, he has worked daily with educators, law enforcement, trial court personnel, juvenile justice, and mental health personnel in the assessment and management of threats of aggression within the schools and the community. He is a member of the Mid-Valley Student Threat Assessment Team where he served as Chair for 16 years, and is a member of the Marion County Threat Advisory Team. He is a member of the Association of Threat Assessment Professionals, ASIS, and regularly provides training and consultation on threat assessment systems and violence prevention to regional and national audiences.

Edition details

• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Publication date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1475830513
• ISBN 13: 9781475830514
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 214
• Editor: Dreal John Van