Tagged as: Working with Adults, Clinical Practice

This training will not be converted into an on-demand format and the recording will not be available.

You must attend the entire live training and complete an evaluation to be eligible for CE credits. If you seek only psychology credits, the evaluation is optional, and you can remain anonymous.

When individuals with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) engage in harmful or offending behaviors, it can be helpful to conceptualize risk factors as vulnerabilities that may increase the likelihood that harm will occur. Dr. Clare Allely, an internationally recognized expert on ASD and its links to harmful behaviors, developed this training to help professionals understand these vulnerabilities in relation to terrorism-related behaviors, viewing or possessing child sexual abuse material (CSAM), and stalking.

Using case examples to illustrate the complex relationship between autism and risk for harm, Dr. Allely:

• Provides an overview of ASD and key clinical considerations
• Explains how certain features of autism may contribute to vulnerabilities in individual cases, while distinguishing these vulnerabilities from generalized assumptions about the likelihood an individual with ASD will engage in harmful or offending behaviors.
• Describes the Terrorist Radicalization Assessment Protocol (TRAP-18) as a measure that may be useful to professionals*

Dr. Allely also examines the roles that autistic special interests, fantasy, obsessionality, the need for routine and predictability, social and communication difficulties, cognitive style, local coherence, systemizing, and sensory processing may contribute to vulnerabilities associated with harmful or offending behaviors.

*Please note that this is not a training on how to administer the TRAP-18. Rather, Dr. Allely discusses its potential use as a framework for understanding and managing risk for lone-actor acts of terrorism.

Interactive Follow-Up Meeting

Attendees are invited to join an open discussion 15 minutes following the end of the training, where you can engage with fellow attendees by turning on your camera and microphone. This is an opportunity to share your experiences and contribute to a meaningful exchange of ideas. Time will be allocated to address questions or insights from the training. Please note that attendance is optional and will not affect your eligibility for a training certificate.

As a result of participating in this training, attendees will be better able to:
1) Explain the distinction between ASD-related vulnerabilities that may contribute to specific harmful behaviors and assumptions about an autistic person’s likelihood of offending based on diagnosis alone
2) Identify a measure that can help to manage and prevent lone-actor terrorist acts
3) Describe how social and communication difficulties can increase risk for harmful behaviors
4) List key clinical considerations when working with a person with ASD who has caused harm

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Who’s Presenting

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Clare Allely, PhD

Professor of Forensic Psychology
University of Salford in England

Clare S. Allely is a Professor of Forensic Psychology at the University of Salford in England and is an affiliate member of the Gillberg Neuropsychiatry Centre at Gothenburg University, Sweden. Clare is an Honorary Research Fellow in the College of Medical, Veterinary and Life Sciences affiliated to the Institute of Health and Wellbeing at the University of Glasgow. Clare acts as an expert witness in criminal cases involving defendants with autism spectrum disorder and contributes to the evidence base used in the courts on psychology and legal issues through her published work. She is author of the book “The Psychology of Extreme Violence: A Case Study Approach to Serial Homicide, Mass Shooting, School Shooting and Lone-actor Terrorism” published by Routledge in 2020 and author of the book “Autism Spectrum Disorder in the Criminal Justice System: A Guide to Understanding Suspects, Defendants and Offenders with Autism” published by Routledge in 2022. More recently, “Autism & Harmful Sexual Behaviour: Working with children and young people” published this year with Jessica Kingsley Publishers –Harmful Sexual Behaviour and Autism | Jessica Kingsley Publishers – UK

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