Mental Health and Targeted Violence 101: Preventing School Shootings and Other Mass Casualty Events
Wednesday, November 12, 2025
1:00-3:00 PM ET/10:00am-12:00pm PT
APA’s Continuing Education Learning Platform

This program will increase awareness and understanding of targeted violence in North America. Content includes definitions, trends, and case examples to enhance the capacity of professionals to understand risk and protective factors, recognize behavioral warning signs, and identify available resources. It will include a review of relevant professional standards, ethics, and laws relevant to decision-making in challenging cases. Resources and opportunities for further training will be shared so participants will know what is available and how to provide better resources and interventions for potential cases of targeted violence. The program is intended for mental health practitioners working in a variety of settings to increase competence and confidence in targeted violence-focused prevention and intervention efforts.

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Targeted Violence & Terrorism: Strengths, needs, & risks Assessment & Management tool (T-SAM)
Thursday, December 4, 2025
10:00 AM – 6:00 PM EDT
Virtual training over Zoom

Offered in partnership with Boston Children’s Hospital, this in-person training provides clinicians with the first risk assessment and management tool for targeted violence that can be used by mental health professionals working in generalist settings. Harm toward others is a known risk, yet mental health professionals working outside of forensic settings have few if any tools they can use to assess and manage violence risk to inform risk assessment and treatment planning. The Targeted Violence and Terrorism Strengths, needs, and risks: Assessment & Management tool (T-SAM) offers mental health professionals a collaborative, client-centered approach to assessment and management of risk for both adults and children. The development of the T-SAM was informed by an evidence-based, suicide-focused therapeutic framework known as the Collaborative Assessment & Management of Suicidality (CAMS).

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