Dates: Oct 8-9, 8:30am-4:30pm (both days)
Register: go.unl.edu/meloy2019register
Cost: $200 ends Sept. 24 / $225 begins Sept. 25.
Who Should Attend:
Professionals including: behavioral health, public health, psychology, social work, medical, corrections, peer recovery support, case management, law enforcement, and security.

Topic: Substance Use, Mental Disorder, and Threat Assessment: Evolving Community Standards
This two-day workshop will focus upon the current scientific discipline of threat assessment and threat management, with a particular emphasis upon the contribution of drugs of abuse and mental disorder to this social problem.

Topics will include: the distinction between predatory and affective violence; immediate or proximal warning behaviors for targeted violence; the ways in which mental disorder can restrain, facilitate, and in some cases, cause violent behavior; the specific role of alcohol and psychostimulants in targeted violence risk; and current data on targeted attacks and mass attacks, summarized by FBI and US Secret Service recent studies. A discussion of ethics in threat management will also be presented. Management of risk and evolving community standards will be woven into the discussions.