Differential Diagnosis: When High Risk Is Not Violence Risk
Most struggling students never move toward violence. This course teaches the clinical distinction that protects them from false alarms while keeping you alert to the signals that matter.
Distinguish general psychopathology from violence-specific warning behaviors, so a diagnosis alone never decides a risk call.
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What you'll be able to do
Recognize the pathway to targeted violence and organize what you find into a defensible risk formulation.
The five major risk domains, drawn from 30 school-shooting case studies
Leakage and warning behaviors, and what finding them obligates you to do
A structured framework for integrating findings across informants into a risk formulation
Inside the course
A focused, evidence-based curriculum you can finish in one sitting: measurable objectives, a graded knowledge check, and a verifiable certificate at the end.
75 minutes of video in total.
The five risk domains: the framework at the center of this program, and the lens you will use on every case that follows.
Where this fits in the program
Four one-hour courses in a suggested progression. Take them in order, or start where your work needs you.
The Pathway to Violence
Recognize how targeted violence develops along an observable pathway, from warning signs and leakage to the five risk domains, in time to interrupt it.
5 lessons · …
Structured Assessment in Practice
Run the structured interview with students and families, document objectively, and escalate through a threat-assessment team.
5 lessons · …
The Case Files
Work real cases end to end: map the domains, spot the leakage, and defend your next-step decision.
5 lessons · …
Built to be trusted
- • Every lesson is grounded in a 30-case evidence corpus and peer-reviewed clinical literature.
- • Authored with a credentialed subject-matter expert as instructor of record.
- • Every credential is QR-verifiable in our public registry.
- • Measurable learning objectives, a knowledge check with an 80% passing standard, and a course evaluation behind every certificate.
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