Safety in High Risk Clinical and Legal Settings: A Prevention, Assessment and Action Protocol for Mental Health and Legal Professionals, April 1, 2026

Training Details

Professionals working in clinical, forensic, and legal arenas routinely navigate situations where safety and rapid decision‑making collide. This training provides a comprehensive, evidence‑informed framework for recognizing, preventing, and responding to escalating risk in environments where clients, patients, defendants, or stakeholders may present complex behavioral, psychological, or situational threats.

Participants explore a structured protocol that integrates behavioral risk assessment, environmental safety planning, de‑escalation strategies, and coordinated action steps tailored to multidisciplinary settings. Through case‑based learning, practical tools, and scenario analysis, attendees learn how to identify early warning signs, evaluate imminent risk, and implement interventions that protect both professionals and the individuals they serve.

By the end of the course, participants gain a clear, repeatable protocol for prevention, assessment, and action—empowering them to maintain safety, uphold ethical standards, and perform effectively in high‑risk environments.

Trainer

Dr. Jeremiah Stokes is a psychotherapist, professor, consultant and author. His clinical experience spans over a decade, where he has provided mental health services in a number of different clinical settings including hospitals, rehabilitation facilities, community agencies and private practice. Dr. Stokes currently serves as owner and clinical director of Stokes Counseling and Consulting, which is an outpatient therapy center where nearly 20 mental health professionals provide services to people on the full continuum of the lifecycle, including children, adolescents, couples and families. Dr. Stokes has dedicated some of his personal clinical expertise to assisting families going through high conflict divorce and other challenging family dynamics related to separation, blended families, and co-parenting. Of these services, Reunification Therapy is a particular area of passion and focus. In addition to his own personal clinical practice, he also provides supervision and consultation for various mental health professionals.

In addition to clinical services, Dr. Stokes also has a passion for teaching and has served in various roles as a college professor. However, currently, he serves as a supporting faculty member at Rollins College, where he teaches in the counseling program. Dr. Stokes has written and published in academic journals, textbook chapters and other scholarly works. He also wrote and published a Social and Emotional Learning Curriculum for middle and high school students.

For his training on Reunification Therapy- Dr. Stokes will guide clinicians and other professionals on best-practices in Reunification Therapy. This will include, but is not limited to: case formulation in reunification work; understanding the role of the professional and practical application of various roles; assessing, evaluating and diagnosing various personal and family psychopathologies; specific focus on working with children, the primary time-sharing parent and the parent being reunified; fostering effective co-parenting; identifying and managing parental alienation; the utilization of attachment theory in reunification work; solution-focused interventions; ethics and boundaries; managing psycho-legal components; and other dynamics of reunification work. Dr. Stokes will engage participants through various learning modalities including: didactic instruction, group engagement, role play and analyses of real case scenarios. Participants will walk away from this training with a conceptual framework of reunification therapy, and direct skills and practical applications for this modality.

Continuing Education Credits (CEUs)

CEU and CLE available.

Groups

Three (3) or more attendees from the same group will receive a 25% discount. Please Note: To register and pay for your group, please call (321) 277-7673 or mail a check along with the names of your attendees to the address below.

Please Note: For attendees wishing to make payment via check, please make the check payable Conflict Solutions Group and mail it to the below address:

Conflict Solutions Group
Attn. Terry Mattingly
1681 North Maitland Avenue
Maitland, FL 32751