Upcoming Events

When: Thursday, March 12 - 10:00 AM

Duration: 1 hours 30 minutes

Location: Zoom

Event Details:

This webinar will provide you with the basics of trauma-informed violence screening and brief assessment with youth and families in mental health services throughout New York State to help identify if more specialized assessments are needed. Current best practice includes a combination of clinical judgment, nuance, and standardized structure. This includes Structured Professional Judgment (SPJ) protocols, care histories, and coordination of information to further enrich screenings and assessments.

Learning Objectives

At the end of the training, participants will be able to:

• Differentiate SPJ and unstructured approaches to violence risk screenings and assessments in child and adolescent mental health services
• Identify key static and dynamic risk and protective factors and integrate trauma and ACE exposure considerations
• Apply a structured workflow to a youth case, including collateral gathering and scenario planning
• Identify and utilize recommendations that include clinical rationale and risk management plans
• Appraise ethical and legal responsibilities of violence and risk screenings

Victoria "Tory" Phillips, PhD is also a Clinical Assistant Professor in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry in the Grossman School of Medicine at NYU Langone and an Attending Psychologist on the NYU-Bellevue Mental Health Team at the ACS Children's Center. In her role on that team, Tory works alongside Michael Feder on a grant to provide extended evaluations to youth at the Children's Center who are having difficulty finding appropriate foster-care placements. Prior to her work at the Children's Center, Tory worked at Horizon Juvenile Detention Center in the Bronx as part of the NYU-Bellevue Juvenile Justice Mental Health Team, providing clinical services to the youth and implementing a second round of NIH-funded research on the use of trauma-informed interventions. Tory has also worked at Hackensack University Medical Center (HUMC) providing trauma-focused therapy to victims of abuse and neglect, and conducting forensic psycho

Michael A. Feder, PhD is a Clinical Associate Professor in the Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry in the Grossman School of Medicine at NYU Langone; he serves as an Attending Psychologist on the NYU-Bellevue Mental Health Team at the ACS Children's Center, where he conducts extended psychological evaluations of psychiatrically complex children, including firesetting risk assessments and sexually harmful behavior risk assessments. He previously served as an Attending Psychologist in the Children's Comprehensive Psychiatric Emergency Program at NYC Health+Hospitals/Bellevue and served as a co-director of the psychology externship program. Michael is a board member of the International Association for Firesetting Intervention, Research, and Education (IFIRE). Michael also maintains a private practice where he specializes in working with high-conflict divorce families and providing parent management training. Michael teaches undergraduates at NYU through the Child and Adolescent Mental Health Studies program. He has co-authored peer-reviewed articles, co-written book chapters, and presented at various conferences on firesetting behaviors, ADHD treatments, Parent Management Training, sleep hygiene, Autism Spectrum Disorder, internet addiction, and other topics in child and adolescent mental health.