Noticing What Changed: A Parent's Guide
Watch lesson one free · 7 min · no account neededA free course for parents, grounded in the same research our professional courses teach. Plain answers: no jargon, no fear. Just what to notice and what to do.
Know what to notice, what to say, and who to call when something changes with your teen.
Noticing What Changed: A Parent's Guide
- ✓Self-paced video course
- ✓Six short lessons you can finish in an evening
- ✓Free for every parent, always
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(opens in a new tab)What you'll learn
Plain answers, grounded in the same research our professional courses teach. No jargon, no fear. Just what to notice and what to do.
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How real warning signs differ from stereotypes, and why a change from your kid's normal matters more than any single behavior.
From case research on how trouble actually develops.
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The five areas of a teen's life where trouble shows up, the same framework professionals are trained to assess, in plain words.
From the five-domain clinical model.
- 3
What worry looks like in writing, drawing, and posting, the signals that almost always appear before a crisis, at home and online.
From findings across documented cases.
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Exactly what to say and who to call: the two direct questions clinicians use, and a three-step response that starts with one conversation.
From clinical screening practice.
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One proven way to protect your home: secure firearm storage, practical and judgment-free.
From safety research on access during a crisis.
Built on a 30-case evidence corpus and a 149-entry research bibliography, the same foundation as our professional training program, translated for parents.
Inside the course
6 short video lessons you can finish in an evening, in any order life allows.
38 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 · Free
Differential Diagnosis
Distinguish general psychopathology from violence-specific warning behaviors, so a diagnosis alone never decides a risk call.
6 lessons · Free
Structured Assessment in Practice
Run the structured interview with students and families, document objectively, and escalate through a threat-assessment team.
5 lessons · Free
The Case Files
Work real cases end to end: map the domains, spot the leakage, and defend your next-step decision.
5 lessons · Free
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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.
- • Written for parents in plain language: no jargon, no fear, no sales pitch.