Resources
Plain-language articles from the research behind our training: for clinicians, school staff, and parents who want to understand what actually predicts risk and what to do next.
Good grades, a sport, a stable home: the checklist is reassuring, but resilience research says presence is not the same as function. What to check instead.
educatorsThe FBI and federal officials issued back to back warnings this fall on AI threat hoaxes and swatting. What the new guidance asks schools to do differently.
parentsNew research shows teens increasingly confide in AI chatbots after something goes wrong online, before telling a parent. What that means and what helps.
educatorsThreat assessment research maps stages between grievance and attack. What each looks like in a school, and where a teacher's response actually counts.
educatorsA clinician's guide to the two patterns that separate venting from genuine warning signals, the four practical questions that distinguish them, and what reporting actually looks like when it is done well.
professionalsReviewing 30 documented school attack cases changed how I assess suicide risk. In half of that small case series, suicidality appears to have preceded the homicidal violence, a preliminary pattern with direct implications for how clinicians structure a comprehensive evaluation.
professionalsUnderstanding duty to warn, duty to protect, and how they differ from mandated reporting. A guide to the legal and ethical landscape clinicians navigate.
parentsA parent's guide to reading changes in a teenager, why your kid's own baseline beats every stereotype, and how to know when watching becomes acting.
professionalsA student can have sports, scouts, church, and friends and still be in freefall. How to assess whether protective factors actually function, with two documented cases.
educatorsThe Secret Service looked for a school attacker profile and never found one. Five myths that persist anyway, and the pattern that holds up instead.
professionalsLearn how to distinguish between depression turning inward (toward help) and outward (toward grievance): the clinical fork that matters for violence prevention.
parentsThe drama put online radicalization in every living room. What it captured, what the conversation around it missed, and what a worried parent can actually do.
