Violence Assessment and Intervention: The Practitioner's Handbook (Hardcover)

~ Michael H. Corcoran Ph.D. (Author), James S. Cawood CPP (Author) "Every case begins with a "call..." (more)
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Editorial Reviews

Review

… a practical handbook that shares the observations, insights, reasoning, and techniques gained from the authors’ years of experiences in preventing and reducing violence at work and in other settings.
—Alan R. Felthouse, M.D., in Psychiatric Services --This text refers to an alternate Hardcover edition.

Product Description

If you are responsible for people, they want and expect you to keep them safe on a regular basis. Violence Assessment and Intervention: The Practitioner's Handbook shows you the most effective way to take the initial data and make quick decisions about whether the situation requires an immediate response with full resources or a less intense response. It gives you easy access to the information you need not only to handle emergency situations, but also to prevent them. The principle focus of this book is not sociological theory, or even clinical assessment, but practical intervention, monitoring, and control of violence. It presents techniques for use in any situation, whether you are a mental health professional doing phone intake from a victim of domestic violence, a corporate human resource or security person getting a call about an incident that just occurred, or a law enforcement officer encountering a potential suicide. Using flow charts and step-by-step instructions developed while handling thousands of cases, the authors give practical advice on how to recognize the signals of potential violence by individuals, identify probable victims, and assess escalation of the threat. Written specifically for the practitioner, this book provides practical, effective methods of violence assessment and intervention. During this time of increasing concern about security, threat assessment, and profiling for violence prediction, Violence Assessment and Intervention: The Practitioner's Handbook gives you the tools to decrease the chances of violence and increase safety in your organization.

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 280 pages
• Publisher: CRC; 1 edition (June 27, 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0849315107
• ISBN-13: 978-0849315107
• Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 6.1 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12.8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #1,565,119 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars an excellent handbook, July 31, 2003

By A Customer

I am new to the field of violence assessment and this book is an excellent tool. I now use it as the guide line for my cases. I have learned so much from it as well as earning the confidence of my employers with the tools it helped me to develope. I encourage eveyone who is associated with the field of threat assessment to purchase this book. I think that even very experienced professionals will learn something important from reading this handbook.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent resource for threat assessment professionals!, January 30, 2004

By	Dr. Marc W. McElhaney (Atlanta, GA United States) - See all my reviews

An excellent and comprehensive guidebook for professionals involved in the area of threat assessment and incident management. This is a sorely needed text that covers the critical issues that the practitioner in this relatively newly developing field faces everyday. Corcoran and Cawood share the knowledge gained from their years of experience in a readable and well organized format. I highly recommend this book for either novices interested in this area of study, or for experienced practitioners to use as a primary reference.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A very good, very detailed, practical guide, July 29, 2003

By	J. Cawood - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Mike and I have attempted to provide a very detailed and practical book to aid practitioners in managing case load. Sometimes it is with teams of talented people (wonderful when it happens) and sometimes it is triage, by yourself, late on a Friday afternoon when no one else is around. We assume that you know how to form teams and know why you would want to do violence risk assessment, the question is how to do it the best possible way, considering as many factors as possible to guide the best outcome. I think this book provides a variety of tools, insights, and ideas in one place that you, the practitioner will find helpful and that anyone who is working with emotionally and mentally destablized people will find of practical benefit, including law enforcment in any assignment, mental health practitioners, legal professionals, human resource professionals, and people interested in the field.
We hope you find it valuable and that it enhances your safety and the safety of the people and communities that you work for and with.