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Recently the FBI's Behavioral Analysis Unit and the American Hospital Association released new resources designed to help healthcare organizations identify, assess, and prevent targeted violence. The resources provide practical guidance for strengthening violence prevention efforts in healthcare environments. Subject matter experts, including mental health professionals, researchers, medical professionals, and law enforcement representatives, contributed to the development of the materials. These resources include key information for hospitals and health systems to establish multidisciplinary behavioral threat assessment and management teams. The presentation from Dr. Karie Gibson, Unit Chief of the FBI/CIRG/Behavioral Analysis Unit-1, Behavioral Threat Assessment Center will discuss these resources and key takeaways needed to prevent targeted violence in hospital settings.
Speaker bio:
Dr. Karie Gibson has been a Special Agent with the FBI for over 19 years and currently serves as the Unit Chief for the FBI’s Behavioral Analysis Unit-1 (BAU-1), Behavioral Threat Assessment Center (BTAC). BTAC is a national-level, multi-agency, multi-disciplinary Task Force focused on the prevention of terrorism and targeted violence through the application of behaviorally- based operational support, training and research for local, state, federal, and international law enforcement partners. BTAC routinely completes threat assessments, threat management strategies, statement analysis, interview and interrogation strategies, prosecutorial strategies, media strategies, and unknown offender profiles. Dr. Gibson served as a Supervisory Special Agent/Profiler at BAU-1 for nearly seven years prior to being promoted to Unit Chief over four years ago.
Prior to becoming an agent with the FBI, Dr. Gibson was and continues to be a licensed clinical psychologist. She was an officer in the United States Air Force (USAF) where for four years she worked as a psychologist conducting therapy and psychological assessments for military members and their families. After the USAF, Dr. Gibson was a Forensic Evaluator for the State of Washington for one year before leaving to join the FBI. As a Forensic Evaluator, Dr. Gibson completed court ordered evaluations such as competency to stand trial, mental state at time of offense, and civil commitment evaluations. Dr. Gibson earned a Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) degree in Psychology from the University of Minnesota, Morris in 1997; a Master of Arts (M.A.) degree in Clinical Psychology with an emphasis in psychological assessment from the Minnesota School of Professional Psychology in 2000; and a Doctor of Psychology (Psy.D.) degree in Clinical Psychology with a concentration in forensics from the Minnesota School of Professional Psychology in 2002.
