Featured guests: Thomas Zimmer, M.D., and Lynetta Smith, Associate Director of Security at Michigan Medicine

Objectives:

• Define a threat assessment
• Identify who should be involved in a threat assessment
• Apply skills to discussing safety with the pediatric population

Resources:

• The concept of leakage in threat assessment (Behavioral Sciences and the Law)
• Enhancing school safety using a threat assessment model (U.S. Dept of Homeland Security)
• Protecting America’s Schools (U.S. Secret Service)
• The need to see and respond: The role of the child and adolescent psychiatrist in school threat assessment (Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry) 

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