Aug 15

Threat Assessment: Identifying, Assessing , and Managing Potential Threats

Stark County Educational Service Center
6057 Strip Ave NW, North Canton, OH 44720
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Aug 15, 2025 09:00am ET - Aug 15, 2025 04:30pm ET

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Free

Who Should Attend:

This program is appropriate for anyone who is or could become part of a threat assessment team. This typically includes a multidisciplinary group of individuals with expertise in various fields, such as mental health professionals (e.g., counselors, psychologists, social workers), school personnel (e.g., school administrators, school resource officers, and other relevant personnel like teachers, special education staff), workplace personnel (such as human resources and security personnel), and potentially outside professionals like medical or mental health experts.

Description:

Through the use of instruction and practical exercises, this full-day program will instruct participants in threat assessments, compare and contrast them to violence risk assessments, teach strategies in the identification and assessment of threats, and identify management strategies.

Objectives:

(1) Define threat assessment;

(2) Identify potential threats;

(3) Comprehensively assess threats; and

(4) Identify threat management strategies.

Continuing Education Units: 6 units pending

Counselors	SW	OCPC	OCPS	OCPSA	CDCA	LCDC II	LCDC III	LICDC
Pending	Pending	Pending	Pending	Pending	Pending	Pending	Pending	Pending

Bob Stinson, Psy.D., J.D., LICDC-CS, ABPP

Dr. Stinson, is a board-certified forensic psychologist, an attorney at law, and a licensed independent chemical dependency counselor – clinical supervisor. Dr. Stinson is listed in the National Register of Health Service Providers in Psychology. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Forensic Psychology (AAFP) and a Diplomate in forensic psychology with the American Board of Professional Psychology (ABPP). Dr. Stinson worked for 15 years on a forensic unit at Twin Valley Behavioral Healthcare (now COBH, an inpatient psychiatric hospital, serving individuals with severe mental illnesses), where he also served on the hospital’s Ethics Committee for a number of years, chairing it for his last two years. Dr. Stinson then served as the Chief of Behavioral Health Services for the Ohio Department of Youth Services for a little over 3 years. Currently, he is full-time in private practice, completing forensic psychological evaluations, training, and consultation. He provides training and supervision to students, interns, and post-doctoral residents. He lectures across the country in the areas of mental health law and ethics, and forensic psychology issues. He is an Adjunct Professor of Clinical Psychology at Wright State University’s School of Professional Psychology and The Ohio State University Department of Psychology, he is a Clinical Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Health at The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, and he is an Adjunct Professor of Law at The Ohio State University’s Moritz College of Law. Dr. Stinson is a past-President of the Ohio Psychological Association and the American Academy of Forensic Psychology. He is a past-Chair and current member of the Ohio Psychological Association’s Ethics Committee. In addition to his psychology practice, Dr. Stinson has a law practice where he represents professionals as it relates to licensing boards and related matters.