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Questions: 1. What are the six steps in the Action technique regarding fact based risk inquiry under the Tarasoff decision? 2. What are the first five of nine explanations of school shootings? 3. What are the Three parts in the three-Part message technique? 4. What are four aspects of how structural secrecy may decrease the likelihood that school shooters will be identified early? 5. What are five aspects of weak or mixed signals that can interfere with the ability to identify children at risk within the school system? 6. What are six cultural scripts that influence a shooter’s decision to commit a violent act? 7. What are three factors that may prevent children from reporting threats from another student to adults? 8. What are four stages of early community recovery from a school shooting tragedy?

Answers: A.  Three factors are violent language and the presumption of innocence, the adolescent code, and perceptual frames. B. The six steps are attitudes that support or facilitate violence, capacity, thresholds crossed, intent, other’s reactions, and non-compliance with risk reduction interventions. C.  Six scripts are, changing social status through performance, independence from adults, living with it, running away or suicide, violent fantasies, and threats. D.  Four stages are closing ranks, cracks in the foundation, healing at different speeds, and the impact on shooter’s families. E. Three parts are: 1. make a concrete, verifiable statement about the behavior you want changed; 2. state how you feel using ‘I’ statements; 3. make a simple statement of fact the adolescent can verify. F.  Five aspects are, masters of disguise, fragmentation, ‘just laugh it off’, perceived overreactions, and the perception that teachers cannot do anything. G.  These four aspects are privacy, the clean slate, institutional memory loss, and the counselor-student confidentiality boundary. H.  The first five of nine explanations are, mental illness, ‘he just snapped’, family problems, bullying, and peer support.

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Questions: 9. What is the legal consensus on the definition of a "true threat"? 10. What are the constitutional law issues involved in using profiles to prevent school violence? 11. What are five effective strategies that have been used to reduce youth violence? 12. What are the four guiding principles for structured professional judgment in violence risk assessment?

Answers: A.  According to Bailey, assigning students to alternative education programs based on a student's likeness to a profile could be seen as a deprivation of the right to equal educational opportunities and thus could pose serious constitutional questions. B.  1. There is no profile or single "type" of perpetrator of targeted violence; 2. there is a dynamic interaction among perpetrator, situation, target, and the setting; 3. there is a distinction between making a threat (expressing an intent to harm a target to the target or others) and posing a threat (engaging in behaviors that lead to a plan to harm); and 4. targeted violence is not random or C.  According to these courts, a "true threat" is a threat that a reasonable person in the same circumstances would find to be a serious and unambiguous expression of intent to do harm based on the language and context of the threat. spontaneous. D.  Five effective strategies included skills training, behavior monitoring and reinforcement, cooperative learning, bullying prevention programs, and parent education programs.

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