Webinar: Identifying and Managing Aggressive Students

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Identifying And Managing Aggressive Student Behaviors,
Attitudes And Emotions
January 25 & March 2 ~ Recording Included!

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2 Minute Takeaways Videos - How to handle an aggressive student in the classroom?

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Webinar Description

Colleges and universities are increasingly concerned with identifying risk factors and preventing violence from occurring on their campuses. This workshop will help higher education faculty, staff, counselors, and psychologists better understand aggressive behavior and how to prevent this aggression from manifesting on campus as violence. The training will offer insights into the difference between cognitive and primal aggression, the early stages of cognitive aggression called the Un-Magnificent Seven©, how individuals move through the stages of the Aggression Continuum© (trigger, escalation and crisis) and what attitudes, behaviors, and qualities are likely to be associated with individuals who make the ultimate decision to take the lives of others on their path toward revenge. Those completing the training will be better prepared to prevent violence on their campus as they become more fluent in the Aggression Management© system.
Webinar Objectives

* This will be an interactive workshop designed to help higher education staff and faculty better understand how to both identify and manage aggressive behavior on their campus prior to it escalating to violence.
* Participants will understand the difference between cognitive and primal aggression. They will understand the behavioral and psychological factors which come together to identify individuals who are dangerous to others on a college campus.
* Participants will understand the Aggression Continuum© and how students, faculty and staff move from a trigger phase, through escalation to crisis. They will understand how to identify these stages of aggression and how to address the aggression from escalating further.
* Participants will understand the early stages of cognitive aggression called the Un-Magnificent Seven© and learn ways to identify, report and manage these behaviors as they occur on campus. The importance of reporting these behaviors to the campus BIT will be stressed as well.

Webinar Speaker

Dr. Brian Van Brunt

Dr. Van Brunt has worked in the counseling field for over fifteen years and has recently begun serving as the president of the American College Counseling Association. He served as Director of Counseling at New England Collegefrom 2001-2007 and currently serves as Director of Counseling and Testing at Western Kentucky University. His counseling style draws from a variety of approaches, though primarily from the humanistic/person-centered style of treatment with its emphasis on warmth, compassion, empathy, unconditional positive regard, individual choice and personal responsibility. He is a certified QPRsuicide prevention trainer and trained in BASICS alcohol intervention. Brian is also a certified trainer in John Byrne's Aggression Management program.

Brian has presented nationally on counseling ethics, mandated counseling, and testing and assessment for the American College Counseling Association (ACCA), Association of College and University Counseling Center Directors (AUCCCD), American College Personnel Association (ACPA) and the National Association of Forensic Counselors (NAFC). He has presented on web site design at the Georgia College Counseling Association (GCCA) conference in 2007 and was awarded the American College Health Association Innovation Grant for his work on New England College's website. He has taught graduate classes in counseling theory, ethics, testing and assessment and program evaluation. He has taught undergraduate classes in adjustment and personal growth, deviance and counseling theory.

He completed his doctorate from Argosy Universityin Sarasota Florida (formerly the University of Sarasota) in counseling psychology, finished his master's degree from Salem State Collegein counseling and psychological services and received a bachelor's in psychology from Gordon College.