Our Next Seminar “Risk and Threat Assessment and Management: Same But Different” will be held on Tuesday 22nd October 2024, 5-7pm.
This will be a free virtual event via Zoom. Spaces are limited on a first come basis.
To book your space please visit our Ticket Tailor page here.
Mental health practitioners have a long history of involvement in clinical risk assessment and management. Indeed, most of the pioneers of today’s standard harm prevention practices in forensic mental health care and criminal justice are – were – psychologists, psychiatrists, psychiatric nurses and social workers.
However, mental health practitioners are increasingly being drawn into threat assessment and management work, supporting the endeavours of police and security agencies trying to manage live threats such as active criminal investigations and hostage situations, as well as corporate and public sector agencies trying to understand and prevent evolving threats within and to the working environment. In this presentation, risk and threat assessment and management practice are compared and contrasted, and the role of mental health professionals is described.
Case examples will be provided to illustrate what mental health professionals can uniquely bring to the harm prevention task.
Speakers: Dr. Frank Farnham and Dr. Caroline Logan.
Dr Frank Farnham
Dr. Caroline Logan
Dr Frank Farnham
Frank Farnham is a Consultant in Forensic Psychiatry at the North London Forensic Service, and Honorary Associate Professor of Security and Crime Science at the Jill Dando Institute of Security and Crime Science at University College London. He has worked in all areas of forensic psychiatry and has been involved in various multi-agency projects as a contractor with law enforcement for over twenty years.
Dr Farnham has ongoing research and clinical interests in stalking, grievance fuelled violence and violent extremism, fixation, and suicide in high-risk groups. He has published two books, ten book chapters and forty-five articles on these subjects.
Dr. Caroline Logan
Caroline Logan is a Consultant Forensic Clinical Psychologist. She has worked as a lead Consultant Forensic Clinical Psychologist in high and medium-secure forensic mental health services in the north of England and as a consultant/contractor with law enforcement agencies in the UK for almost 30 years.
She is also an honorary senior lecturer at the University of Manchester and a scientist at Helse Bergen in Norway.
Dr Logan has ongoing clinical and research interests in personality disorder (including psychopathy), risk, violent extremism, and forensic clinical interviewing, and she has a special interest in gender issues in the range of offending behaviour.
She has published five books and over 80 articles on these subjects, including Violent Extremism: A Handbook of Risk Assessment and Management, a book co-edited with Randy Borum and Paul Gill, published in November 2023, and a second edition of Managing Clinical Risk: A Guide to Effective Practice, co-edited with Lorraine Johnstone, published in December 2023.
She has commenced work on a new book on violent extremism and youth, once again with Professors Randy Borum and Paul Gill, and another on personality and risk.