More Than a Buzz Word: Culturally Relevant Risk Factors and the HCR-20

Being aware of cultural risk factors may inform risk-reduction interventions. To maximize utility and accuracy, violence risk assessment should incorporate culturally specific or relevant influences on an individual’s psychological cognitions, assumptions, and behaviors. Including culturally relevant risk factors as indicators for the "original" risk assessment items will permit overlap of these constructs while also providing guidance to the evaluator to consider these unique cultural considerations while scoring these items and informing treatment decisions to manage violence risk.

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UPCOMING LIVE PROGRAMS

• Child and Adolescent Suicide: Prevention, Crisis Management, and Postvention | April 12th | 2 Hours, 2 CEs: This live professional training program, presented by David Capuzzi, PhD, NCC, LPC, addresses the significant concerns of suicide and suicide prevention and provides the training needed by counselors, social workers, and other helping professionals to effectively assist those at risk for attempting suicide. 
  

• Sedentary Behavior: Implications for Health and Wellness | April 17th | 3 Hours, 3 CEs: Describe screening and intervention techniques and approaches for clients who live a sedentary lifestyle, including psychological distress and toxic stress, hypothalamus-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis dysfunction, and therapeutic lifestyle changes. 

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• Treating Later-Life Depression: Personalized Approaches | April 20th | 3 Hours, 3 CEs: One of the greatest challenges for practitioners treating later-life depression is the wide variability of life circumstances that accompany depressive symptoms for aging patients across outpatient mental health and integrated care. Detailed suggestions will be provided and demonstrated for how to modify core therapy strategies with aging patients, including behavioral activation, problem-solving, emotional literacy and cognitive reappraisal.  

• Trauma-informed Ethical Decision-Making | April 27th | 4 Hours, 4 CEs: Participants will learn behavioral ethics and the role of ethical principles and professional values in ethical decision-making and practice. Additionally, foundational knowledge regarding the impact of exposure to trauma on an individual’s neurobiological processes, cognitive processes, emotional regulation, and decision-making will be discussed.

Wishing you well, 

Patricia A. Zapf, PhD
VP, Continuing & Professional Studies
Palo Alto University
pzapf@paloaltou.edu
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