Alexithymia and Violence: Understanding Rage Murder
This a presentation at the Society for Personality Assessment in Washington DC in March 2018 on the clinical and forensic assessment of alexithymia. The attached paper examines alexithymia and rage-type murder, typically extreme violence that occurs in intimate relationships. The paper discusses rage type murder as a type of affective or impulsive violence as opposed […]
Forensic Psychology at Society for Personality Assessment
Forensic Interest Group Newsletter: May 19, 2018 Marvin W. Acklin, PhD, ABAP, ABPP Why is forensic psychological assessment important to SPA? Or why is SPA important to forensic psychological assessment? There have been substantial changes in the landscape of personality assessment in the past 30 years. Aside from the general decline of assessment services through […]
Orientation to Threat Risk Assessment and Management
Marvin W. Acklin, PhD, ABPP Steven Taketa, PsyD Date: February 15, 2018 Purpose of presentation: To provide participants with basic definitions, concepts, and tools in the structured professional judgment of targeted violence risk assessment and management. Definitions: Threat. Perceived possibility of harm, or statement conveying an intention to cause harm. Violence. Any actual, attempted, […]
Development of a Threat Assessment Team — In progress.
The latest tragic school shooting in South Florida, especially in light of the revelation that that the shooter was reported to the FBI in the previous month, increases the necessity of working local threat assessment teams combining qualified mental health and law enforcement. The attached is a presentation made to Threat Team Oahu on February […]