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Counseling Center Clinicians Experience Providing Assessments Of Risk To Self Vs Risk To Others, Jeffrey W. Pollard, David J. Disabato, Paul D. Polychronis, Mario J. Scalora

University of Nebraska Public Policy Center: Publications

As part of collecting information for the purpose of threat assessment and management regarding a person of concern within an institution of higher education, a threat assessment and management team or another institutional official may request that a campus counseling center conduct a risk assessment of dangerousness-to-others. This study measured counseling center clinicians’ training and experience in conducting risk assessments of dangerousness-to-others. Survey data from mental health providers practicing in counseling centers within institutions of higher education revealed that these practitioners had significantly less training and experience in assessing dangerousness-to-others as compared to the training and experience they have in …