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'Threat Assessment in the Campus Setting' Whitepaper Published by
National Behavioral Intervention Team Association
MALVERN, Pa., April 28, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- The National Behavioral
Intervention Team Association (NaBITA) is proud to announce the
release of the 2014 Whitepaper, Threat Assessment in the Campus
Setting. Co-authors include:
-- NaBITA Executive Director, Brett A. Sokolow, J.D.
-- NaBITA President, W. Scott Lewis, J.D.
-- NaBITA Past-President, Saundra K. Schuster, J.D.
-- NaBITA Advisory Board Member, Daniel C. Swinton, J.D., Ed.D.
-- NaBITA President-Elect, Brian Van Brunt, Ed.D.
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The NaBITA Threat Assessment Tool ("Tool") was first introduced in
2009. The Tool provides a rubric for behavioral and risk evaluation
and helps create a common language for Behavioral Intervention Teams
("BITs"). It now commands respect as the tool most commonly used by
campus behavioral intervention and threat assessment teams across the
United States (Bennett & Lengerich, 2011; Van Brunt et al, 2012).
Given the prominence it has achieved, the leaders at NaBITA are
mindful of their ongoing obligation to update the tool, to validate it
and assure that it continues to reflect best practices. While the
NaBITA trainings and literature describing the use and application of
the tool have evolved, this marks the first substantial revision to
the tool itself, and an update of the 2009 Whitepaper that first
introduced the tool to the field.
Interested in learning more about updates to the threat assessment
tool? Co-authors W. Scott Lewis and Brian Van Brunt have recorded a
20-minute overview. This preview is free to access and
download. Please click here and scroll to the bottom to "purchase" for
$0 the recording SummerUpdates: What's New with the NaBITA Tool.
More and more campuses are looking to in-source the capacity to
perform violence risk assessments by behavioral intervention and
threat assessment teams. The Structured Interview for Violence Risk
Assessment (SIVRA-35) is a thirty-five-item inventory that is used to
assist BIT members and clinical staff in conducting a more thorough
and research-based violence risk assessment. The SIVRA-35 is designed
to assist with individuals identified as elevated, severe or extreme
risk by the NaBITA Threat Assessment Tool or using similar
methodologies.
In conjunction with the release of the Whitepaper, NaBITA is offering
the following related events and products:
-- BIT Best Practices Certification Course, August 7-9, 2014 in
Portland, ORIncludes training and license to access SIVRA-35
-- Gain practical, hands-on techniques with Online Threat Assessment
Training: The New Orleans Interviews
-- Receive 50% off Standard and Enhanced Campus Memberships through
August 1, 2014
For more information, contact:
Samantha Dutill Associate Executive Director Email 610-993-0229
Read more news from the National Behavioral Intervention Team
Association.
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