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By the end of the course, the Counselor, Marriage and Family Therapist, Social Worker or Psychologist will be able to:
-Name four descriptions that are used by states to characterize a potential third party for which you have the Duty to Warn.
-List the steps a Communication Division shall follow when they receive a call from a mental health professional (as defined under Evide Code section 1010), including other persons such as nurses and support staff members, who is reporting a threat that falls under the Tarasoff decision.
-Name what the Duty to Warn in Oklahoma is primary based upon rather than the practicioner's observance of explicit patient conduct.
-Name the circumstance, even where danger is not imminent, in which HIPAA permits a covered provider to communicate with a patient's family member, or others involved in the patient's care, to be on watch or ensure compliance with medication regimens.
-Name the context in which forensic experts use the term "leakage".
-State the response of the teacher to the 16-year-old student who shot and injured his classmate and a teacher when the attacking student had sought his help prior to the incident regarding being bullied.
-List the basic objectives of Psychological First Aid, PFA.
-State what should be included in post-event assessments by human resources and/or management following the point when an active shooter has been incapacitated and is no longer a threat.
-List the most frequently reported psychosocial resources lost following the cited shooting.
-Describe the 3 phases of behavioral and mental health reactions to mass violence.
-Name some steps to facilitate the long-term recovery process following a workplace active shooter incident.
-State the action taken by the therapist, in the case study provided, following the employee's statement in a session the he was "Spending his evenings planning revenge on his managers because they had treated him unfairly for many years and they deserved to be punished".
-List the actions of the manager or EPA that play a vital role in helping or hindering an organization's recovery following workplace violence rather than narrowly focusing on care-giving responses such as the debriefings and counselings discussed.
-In the Critical Incident Stress Debriefings (CISD) model, state what the participants are asked to discuss in the "Thought Phase" and "Reaction Phase" to assist victims of critical incidents with their recovery process.
-List the next steps you can take to confront your or your client's implicity biases and reduce stereotypic thinking in regards to counter-sterotypic imaging, individuating, and perspective-taking.
-Name the online platforms the Office of the New York State Attorney General found were used in some way to spread graphic content arising after and from the shooting where the referenced Buffalo shooter had found a community of hate that warped his worldview with racist conspiracy theories, pseudoscience, and cult worshipping of past mass murderers.
-State the reason a counselor's inherent "trust" needs make him or her vulnerable to vicarious trauma.
-List examples of symptoms that professionals who are affected by secondary traumatic stress and other related conditions, such as vicarious trauma, experience in all aspects of daily life, such as negative changes in beliefs about themselves, others, and their work.


"The instructional level of this course is introductory, intermediate, or advanced depending on the learners clinical area of expertise."