Client/Patient Resource: Creating a Habit of Nonbiased Thinking(Printable .pdf)

PART I – WARNING BEHAVIOR: Duty to Warn and Protect Third Parties
Section 1 & Question 1
--Warning Behavior: Third Party for which You have the Duty to Warn
Section 2 & Question 2
--Law Enforcement: Police Response Procedure to Mental Health Professionals Report of Dangerous Persons (Tarasoff Decision)
Section 3 & Questions 3
--Threat Detection: Predicting a Patient’s/Client's Dangerousness
Section 4 & Question 4
--HIPAA Privacy Rule and Data Sharing related to Mental Health

PART II - SCHOOL Shootings
Section 5 & Question 5
--Preventing and Preparing for an Active School Shooter Incident

Section 6 & Question 6
--Case Studies of School Attackers

PART III -- ACTIVE SHOOTER Crisis Environment Communication
Section 7 & Question 7
--The Importance of Effective Communication in a Crisis Environment - Psychological First Aid, PFA

Section 8 & Question 8
--Managing the Consequences of an Active Shooter Situation

Section 9 & Question 9
--Posttraumatic Symptoms following a Shooting: The Role of Resource Loss

PART IV -- MASS Violence
1-30-23 As of late January, the Gun Violence Archive has counted 49 mass shootings this year. Six of them involved four or more fatalities.- The New York Times
Section 10 & Question 10
--Mass Violence and Behavioral Health

Section 11 & Question 11
--Long-Term Recovery – Restoration

PART V- WORKPLACE Violence
11-24-22 Chesapeake, Va. The Walmart supervisor who shot and killed six co-workers in Virginia seemed to target people and fired at some victims after they were already hit and appeared to be dead, said a witness who was present when the shooting started. -- Associated Press
Section 12 & Question 12
--Case Study: Employee Threat made during a Counseling Session

Section 13 & Question 13
--Workplace Violence Recovery

Section 14 & Question 14
--Critical Incident Stress Debriefings (CISD)

PART VI – RACE - Combating Implicit Bias and Stereotypes
4-11-22 Detriot - How violence against Asian Americans has grown - The 22-year-old white man suspected of killing eight people that day, including six Asian American women, was motivated by race and gender… There has been a rise in racist, violent acts against Asian Americans all across the country. PBS News
Section 15 & Question 15
--Combating Implicit Bias and Stereotypes(See link at top of page to get printable format.)

PART VII – SHOOTERS Radicalized by Online Ideology of Hate
5-14-22 -The mass shooting in and around the Tops grocery store in Buffalo, New York on May 14, 2022 that claimed the lives of ten individuals and injured three others was all the more horrific because of the white supremacist ideological motivation that fueled it and the shooter’s meticulous planning. The disturbing reality is that this attack is part of an epidemic of mass shootings often perpetrated by young men radicalized online by an ideology of hate. - Investigative Report on the role of online platforms in the tragic mass shooting in Buffalo on May 14, 2022.
Section 16 & Question 16
--Online Platforms Fuel Radicalization

PART VIII - STS Secondary Traumatic Stress, Vicarous Trauma
Section 17 & Question 17
--Preventing Vicarious Trauma: Working With Trauma Survivors

Section 18 & Question 18
--Warning Signs of STS and Vicarious Trauma

-- Test --

--Bibliography

Psychologist Learning Objectives here
Course Learning Objectives/Outcomes here
CAMFT: Course Details in compliance with CAMFT Guidelines here