The Role of Threat Assessment and Management in College Counseling: How’s That Net Working?

Abstract

The authors respond to Goodwin’s (2014) Threat Assessment: Are We Using the Wrong Nets? and use that article as a springboard to discuss various aspects of the threat assessment and management process. We find that Goodwin misses critical elements of the threat assessment and management process, conflates the process with two types of risk assessment, does illuminate some important concerns about the use of instrumentation, but incompletely addresses counseling center staff challenges in assisting the implementation of campus threat assessment and management teams.