John Van Dreal is a school psychologist and the retired director of Safety and Risk Management Services for the Salem-Keizer School District. Courtenay McCarthy is the lead school psychologist in student preventive behavioral threat assessment and management for Salem-Keizer Public Schools, is chair of the Mid-Valley Student Threat Assessment Team and is a member of the Marion County Threat Advisory Team. Coleen Van Dreal is a school counselor at Roberts High School @ Chemeketa, Salem-Keizer Public School's alternative high school.
Acknowledgements
Disclaimer
Foreword
Preface
How This Book is Organized, How This Book Can Help
Section One: Getting Started
Chapter 1: How to Build a Successful Threat Assessment Program
Chapter 2: Equity, Bias, and Restorative Practice-Avoiding the
School-to-Prison Pipeline
Chapter 3: Special Education and Preventive Behavioral Threat Assessment
Section Two: Meet the Students: Seven Potentially Violent Situations
Chapter 4: Daniel and Will
Chapter 5: Alison
Chapter 6: Sam
Chapter 7: Eric and Maya
Chapter 8: Alan
Section Three: Begin the Level 1 Process
Chapter 9: School Site, Level 1 Preventive Assessment and Intervention:
Questions 1-11 as They Apply to the Seven Student Case Studies
Chapter 10: Question 12 as It Applies to the Seven Case Studies
Chapter 11: Questions 13-20 as They Apply to Four of the Case Studies
Section Four: Complete the Process
Chapter 12: Collaborative Decision Making
Chapter 13: Managing Cases with Prevention, Inclusion, and Connection
Conclusion: Daniel, Will, Al, Sam, Eric, Maya, Alan-Did It Work?
Appendix: Level 1 Team Assessment Protocols and Forms
References and Resources
About the Authors
