Targeted Violence in the Clinician's Practice

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Date: Saturday, April 25, 2026
Time: 10 am - 12 pm
Location: In-Person & Zoom
CE/CME: 2.0

Despite the steady decrease in violent crime over the past three decades, there has been an increase in targeted attacks toward people in public places, ranging from schools and workplaces to open recreational areas. Motivations vary, but often include both personal grievances and an attraction to extreme religious or political beliefs. Mental health professionals, on rare occasion, may find the antecedents of such thoughts, emotions, and behaviors in their patients.

In this seminar, Dr. Reid Meloy will teach such pre-offense warning behaviors to clinicians in attendance. Based upon his research group's work over the past 15 years, and validated by numerous studies by others in North America, Europe, and Australia, these proximal warning behaviors provide important benchmarks for the clinician to identify, assess, and manage such threats posed by their patients in their daily practice.

Date: Saturday, April 25, 2026
Time: 10 am - 12 pm
Location: In-Person & Zoom
CE/CME: 2.0
REGISTER HERE

About Reid Meloy, Ph.D.
Dr. Reid Meloy is a board-certified forensic psychologist who engages in consultation, research, and teaching mental health and law enforcement professionals with a primary focus in threat assessment and mitigation of risk. For the past 24 years he has been a consultant to the Behavioral Analysis Unit of the FBI.

He is a former clinical professor of psychiatry at the University of California, San Diego, and a faculty member of the San Diego Psychoanalytic Center. He is the author of several hundred peer-reviewed scientific publications and the author or editor of 14 books.