Workplace targeted violence – assessment and management in dynamic contexts.

December 10, 2025

Stephen G. White. (2021).

Workplace targeted violence – assessment and management in dynamic contexts. In International Handbook of Threat Assessment, 2nd edition, edited by J. Reid Meloy & Jens Hoffmann.
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This second edition of the International Handbook received the American Psychiatric Association’s 2022 Manfred S. Guttmacher Award “for outstanding contribution to the literature of forensic psychiatry.” The text includes Stephen White’s updated chapter on workplace violence, and the WAVR-21 is referenced in a number of the other chapters. From the publisher: “In the few years since its publication in 2014, the International Handbook of Threat Assessment has become the gold standard textbook for the prevention of targeted violence. With this new edition, editors J. Reid Meloy and Jens
Hoffmann have expanded their landmark text, reflecting the rise of scholarship and growth within the field of threat assessment and management. The book spans across disciplines and explores the foundations of threat assessment, the fields of practice in which it is utilized, and provides detail on practical applications from the most notable threat assessors and programs in North America, Europe, and Australia. Since the first edition, new chapters focusing on lone actor terrorism, insider threats, cyberthreats, the use of artificial intelligence, bystander effects, and enhanced interviewing techniques, offer new guidance for threat assessment professionals.

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