Consultations

Dr. Webster is available to consult with, or provide training to, organizations, individuals, and other groups in the general areas of:

• Violence risk assessment, workplace violence
• Risk assessment instruments & clincial guides (HCR-20, and others)
• Making inter-disciplinary mental health teams work
• "The short-term assessment of risk and treatability: A cross-disciplinary approach to preventing suicide and anti-social conduct disorder.
• "Helping people recover: What people can do for themselves and how mental health professionals can help. "
• "The case for early intervention: Helping boys, girls, teenagers and their families.
• Impulsivity as a clinical constraint: Its measurment and implications for treatment.
• Assessing spousal assaulters: The SARA and related approaches.
• Clinical criminology: Creating cross-disciplinary understanding and synergy.
• The construct of Psychopathy: An historical overview with an emphasis on recent conceptual developments. "

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Examples of Specific Workshop or Seminar Topics That Have Been Delivered Include:

Risk Assessment & Management Topics

• "Bend it like Baxtrom: A summary of violence risk assessment research from 1966 legal case to the present"
• "Creating violence risk assessment approaches that are evidence-based and cost effective"
• "The HCR-20: A 10 year risk assessment experiment still in progress"
• Making inter-disciplinary mental health teams work: Some strategies on how they can assess risk to self and others."
• "The short-term assessment of risk and treatability: A cross-disciplinary approach to preventing suicide and anti-social conduct disorder."
• "Assessing and managing violence risk in the workplace. "
• "Helping people recover: What people can do for themselves and how mental health professionals can help. "
• "The case for early intervention: Helping boys, girls, teenagers and their families. "

• "Impulsivity as a clinical constraint: Its measurment and implications for treatment. "
• "Assessing spousal assaulters: The SARA and related approaches."
• "Clinical criminology: Creating cross-disciplinary understanding and synergy. "
• "The construct of Psychopathy: An historical overview with an emphasis on recent conceptual developments. "

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