Description & Objectives

Continuing Education Hours: 2.5 CEs for LPC, SW, LMFT, and Psychologists - NBCC Approved

Description:Participants will learn from the presenter’s detailed analysis, review, and ongoing study of the perpetrators of 69 school shooting incidents occurring in the U.S. since 1999. Topics include expanding the list of adverse childhood experiences, appropriately responding to children in “emotional distress”; the relationship between harm in the home and committing acts of violence in the community; child perpetration of animal cruelty; bullying and its impact on child mental health; religion and school shooters; the impact of observing violence in books, video games, and movies; commonalities in childhood histories of school shooters vs serial murderers and perpetrators of other acts of targeted violence (not occurring at schools); and preventing future acts of violence in the community.

Instructor

Andrew Campbell

Andrew Campbell is an expert on family violence and the associated risks of harm for adults, children, and animals residing in homes where this violence occurs. Andrew has a master’s degree in Public Health and has given over 250 family violence presentations for multidisciplinary groups across the United States and around the world. His many publications over the last several years include papers cited by the FBI, CDC, United Nations, and in over 1,600 international academic papers and research studies. Andrew is the author of the books, "Not Without My Pet: Understanding the Importance of Pets to Victims of Domestic Violence” and "Taking Back What Abuse Took: A Public Health Based Approach to Healing from Abuse".