Advanced Techniques in Clinical Risk Assessment: Australian Dates

Presented by Caroline Logan and Lisa Davies with LSC Psychology

This series of five advanced training courses run in Australia, focuses on enhancing the risk assessment and management skills of experienced practitioners across various high-risk areas. Topics include structured professional judgment (SPJ) for sexual violence, organized crime, modern slavery, human trafficking, violent extremism, and grievance-fueled violence, as well as understanding the link between personality problems and violence risk, particularly in family settings. Additional sessions cover managing insider threats in the workplace, assessing suicidal and self-harm risks, and handling violence in institutional environments like prisons and hospitals. Each course combines theoretical knowledge with practical case studies, using tools like HCR-20 V3, RSVP V2, and MLG V2 to develop effective, evidence-based risk management strategies tailored to complex, evolving challenges.

Choose your dates and topics at our Get Tickets link or contact us at training@lscpsych.com.au for registration and direct debit options:

SOLD OUT Three day training on Organised Crime, Modern Slavery, Human Trafficking, Violence & Extremism from May 5 to 7

Two day training in Personality Problems and Risk run from May 12 to 13

Two day training in Risk Assessment and Management in Clinical Practice from May 15 to 16

One day training in Insider Risk Assessment on May 14

About the presenters

Caroline Logan

Caroline Logan is a Consultant Forensic Clinical Psychologist. She has worked as a lead consultant in high and medium secure forensic mental health services in the north of England, and as a consultant/contractor with law enforcement and threat assessment and management agencies in the UK and elsewhere for almost 30 years. She is also an honorary senior lecturer at the University of Manchester (from 2009, and before that, a senior research fellow then an honorary research fellow at the University of Liverpool between 1996-2009) and a scientist at the Kompetansesenter at Helse Bergen in Norway. Dr Logan has ongoing clinical and research interests in personality disorder and psychopathy, mental disorder and comorbidity, risk and threat assessment and management, violent extremism, and forensic clinical interviewing, and she has a special interest in gender issues in the range of offending and harmful behaviour. She has published five books and over 80 articles on these subjects, including Violent Extremism: A Handbook of Risk Assessment and Management, a book co-edited with Randy Borum and Paul Gill, published in November 2023, and a second edition of Managing Clinical Risk: A Guide to Effective Practice, co-edited with Lorraine Johnstone, published in December 2023. She has commenced work on a new book on violent extremism in youth with Professors Borum and Gill, and a book on personality problems and risk is in the pipeline.

Lisa Davies

Lisa Davies is a Consultant Forensic Psychologist, working in full time private practice as the Director of Expert Psychological Services Ltd, an expert witness consultancy. Ms. Davies has worked in prisons, low, medium and high secure services in the UK. Ms. Davies provides psychological assessments for the purposes of the courts, immigration tribunals and the Parole Board. In the last eight years, Ms. Davies has provided assessments of victims and perpetrators of organised crime, modern slavery and human trafficking, and receives referrals for clients at all stages of the criminal justice system, from charge through to appeal against sentence and conviction and appeals against removal from the UK, with focused attention on the assessment of the risk of harm presented to the public by individuals convicted of offences related to organised crime, human trafficking and modern slavery. Ms. Davies has been involved in the assessment of risk of adult males and females known or suspected to be involved in human trafficking and modern slavery and is regularly called upon to give expert evidence. She has provided psychological consultancy to peer mentors with lived experience of leaving criminal gangs and supported individuals exiting from criminal gangs. Ms. Davies has provided training in human trafficking and modern slavery to police officers within the UK. Ms. Davies has been involved in the assessment of risk in forensic settings and used structured professional judgement approaches to risk assessment for over 20 years.