Introduction to Homicide Risk Assessment All mental health professionals in the US and Canada have an ethical duty to warn, the requirement to warn someone who is at risk of harm of that harm. This leads clinicians to conduct homicide risk assessments to determine the level of danger to others. In therapy or crisis intervention, the clinician is…
Month: May 2016
The Six Step Model of Crisis Intervention
In order to develop basic crisis intervention skills it is necessary to have a model on which one can work from, allowing you to understand the situations that bring a person into crisis (chiefly things that overwhelm a person’s coping strategies, where they find themselves unable to take further positive action), and the tasks that…
Involuntary Celibacy: Causes and Treatments
Introduction I recently watched a documentary called “Shy Boys: IRL“, involving individuals who identify as experiencing involuntary celibacy (incel), also called forever alone (FA), true forced loneliness (TFL), love shy or a number of other terms. This describes an inability to get a romantic partner despite trying and over a certain age (usually by 18,…