Adult Mental Health Crisis Intervention Curriculum

Module 3. Intervention

Chapter 4. Assessing Aggression

Welcome to Assessing Aggression, the fourth chapter in the Intervention module.  While it is not always possible to predict if a person is going to act violently, it is possible to identify factors that contribute to violent behavior.  In this chapter you will learn about indicators of violence, assessing violent persons, and intervening with violent people.

This material will be presented in a .PDF document.  Please review it and when you are confident you have a good understanding of its content, close it and proceed to the next page in this training.   You will then be presented with a number of questions designed to verify your grasp of the material.

You will be given the document on the next page.  You may also recall it from your documents as needed during the rest of the training.  This document is printable and we encourage you to do this for use when you are not at your computer.