Citation

Stohlman S, Konold T, Cornell D. J. Threat Assess. Manag. 2020; 7(1-2): 29-40.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2020, American Psychological Association)

DOI

10.1037/tam0000142

PMID

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Abstract

Despite the widespread use of threat assessment in K-12 schools, there is a dearth of research investigating the staff training process. We evaluated the effectiveness of day-long training on the Comprehensive Student Threat Assessment Guidelines (CSTAG) in a sample of 4,666 multidisciplinary school personnel from administration, law enforcement, mental health, teaching, and other groups. Across 100 workshops conducted by 9 trainers, all discipline groups showed large and statistically significant increases in their knowledge of threat assessment from pretest to posttest. On average, participants achieved threat classification accuracy scores of 75% after completing the workshop. Over 95% of participants provided positive evaluations of the workshop and highly endorsed motivation to implement threat assessment in their schools. Overall, these findings support the use of workshop training to prepare multidisciplinary school-based threat assessment teams. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2020 APA, all rights reserved)

Language: en