Behavioral Threat Assessment for Clinicians

Live Online Training

December 4, 2025 10:00 AM - 4:00 PM EST

Clinicians in any treatment context—not just forensic settings—require some basic literacy in behavioral threat assessment.  They should be able to explore any concerns about threat assessment that emerge in routine practice, particularly those that might prompt a duty to warn.  This virtual, five-hour training presents a primer in behavioral risk assessment in order to begin developing a literacy in these important skills, particularly for clinicians in community clinical practice. Participants can earn up to 5 APA-approved CEUs.

Please contact us for detailed information about the days schedule.

Learning Objectives

1. Describe the history of threat assessment, including both research and practice.

2. Describe the goals of threat assessment.

3. Describe current research relevant to identifying warning signs of potential threats of violence in community clinical practice.

4. Learn and apply best-practice guidelines for assessing and responding to threats in community clinical practice.

5. Practice applying this knowledge to real-world case examples, including analyzing scenarios in which a duty to warn does or does not apply.

6. Be exposed to various types of empirically supported targeted violence instruments.

Instructors

Daniel Murrie, PhD, serves as Director of UVA's Institute of Law, Psychiatry, and Public Policy.  He is also a Professor of Psychiatry and Neurobehavioral Sciences in the UVA School of Medicine.  He oversees the ILPPP’s training programs in forensic evaluation and the postdoctoral fellowship in forensic psychology.  As a clinician, he performs forensic evaluations through the ILPPP’s Forensic Psychiatry Clinic.  As a scholar, his research and teaching address a variety of topics in forensic psychology, particularly topics addressing reliability, bias, and quality improvement in forensic evaluation.

Mel Stormer, PsyD, is a Licensed Clinical Psychologist and federal law enforcement officer. She earned her doctorate degree from The Chicago School of Professional Psychology in Washington, DC and completed her doctoral internship at Forensic Services, a maximum security forensic inpatient facility in St. Peter, MN. Her education and experience has focused on serious mental illness, personality disorders, sexual deviancy, and predatory behavior. Dr. Stormer has been a federal law enforcement officer for 20 years and has experience working and advising on investigations regarding violent crimes, sex crimes, crimes against children, targeted violence, and stalking. She also conducts court-ordered and private forensic evaluations in Virginia and regularly presents at various law enforcement and mental health conferences.

Anna Grace Barnette, PhD, is a Licensed Clinical Psychologist and serves as the Associate Director of Threat Assessment at the University of Virginia (UVA). Within this role, she assists in assessing and managing threats of violence within the University and Medical System. She has authored peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters, including a feature in the International Handbook of Threat Assessment and Management. Her published research has primarily focused on distinguishing between serious and non-serious threats of violence, as well as establishing threat assessment as an evidence-based violence prevention practice in K-12 grade schools and universities. Prior to joining the Threat Assessment Team, Dr. Burnette earned her doctorate degree in Clinical Psychology from UVA and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at UVA’s Institute of Law, Psychiatry, and Public Policy. She has worked across inpatient and outpatient settings in California, Virginia and Washington, D.C., conducting court-ordered and private forensic evaluations for a range of legal issues.

Neither the instructors nor the program planning committee (Daniel Murrie, Ph.D., Lucy Guarnera, Ph.D., & Angela Torres, Ph.D.,) have any conflicts of interest or commercial support to disclose.

Continuing Education

Participants are eligible for up to 5 hours of continuing education credits (CEUs) approved by the American Psychological Association (APA). ILPPP is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. ILPPP maintains responsibility for this program and its content.

You must join by 10:15 am and stay for the duration of the presentation in order to receive the CE credits.

CE credits are applicable for licensed psychologists; other disciplines will need to check the relevant statutes and guidance regarding whether or not this can count towards any CE requirement.

Training Fees

• $250: Standard registration

• $125: Employees of Virginia DBHDS or a Community Services Board (CSB)

Please note that the reduced rate is available only for DBHDS and CSB employees, rather than all state employees, because DBHDS partially sponsors this training program.

Occasionally large facilities or state agencies outside Virginia want to send a team of trainees, for whom we can arrange a discounted group rate. Please contact us to discuss such arrangements.

How to Register

Scroll to the top of the page to register via the Eventbrite checkout. You will receive the Zoom link closer to the date of training and detailed attendance instructions.

Cancellation Policy

You may cancel your registration up to 7 days before the event starts. Your confirmation email will have information on how to cancel. All refunds will be assessed by Eventbrite's service fee. This fee is 6.6% of the registration price + $1.79. This fee will be assessed regardless of when the cancellation occurs in relation to the date of the training.

Please allow 30 days to receive a refund. Refunds will be processed according to the original payment method.