Seminar Title:
Hostage Negotiations with the Empathy Impaired and Psychopaths
DATES: 2/25/2021 through 2/26/2021
INSTRUCTOR(S): Andrew Young
LOCATION: Drury Inn & Suites Charlotte Arrowood - 8925 Red Oak Blvd, Charlotte, NC 28217
HOTEL: Drury Inn & Suites Charlotte Arrowood - Charlotte, NC 704-561-7499
$89 Single/Double
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COURSE REGISTRATION FEE: $325.00 Includes all training materials, and a Certificate of Completion.
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Instructor Bio
Dr. Andy Young
Dr. Young has been a Professor in Behavioral Sciences at Lubbock Christian University since 1996 and a negotiator and Psychological Consultant with the Lubbock Police Department’s SWAT team since 2000. He also heads their Victim Services Unit and is the director of the department’s Critical Incident Stress Management Team. He has been on the negotiating team at the Lubbock County Sheriff’s Office since 2008 and has recently been asked to serve as the Psychological Consultant on the Amarillo Police Department’s HNT team and has joined the team at the Texas Department of Public Safety (state troopers). He has written a book, mostly stories about his work as a crisis counselor and hostage negotiator at LPD called Fight or Flight: Negotiating Crisis on the Frontline (see www.DrAndyYoung.com) and has published research on the callout experience, personality and decision-making styles of negotiators and SWAT operators, one of which was recently published in NTOA’s magazine. Since 2014 he has spoken nationally at numerous hostage negotiator conferences, as well as other professional and academic conferences on crisis intervention and hostage negotiating.
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Pre-Payment is not required to register or attend IN-PERSON seminars. Pre-payment is required for WEBINARS and ONLINE COURSES.
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Course
Objectives
This two-day negotiation classis for police crisis (hostage) negotiators who have already passed a 40-hourbasic certification course. Day one will review basic (active listening) andadvanced (influence and persuasion) negotiator skills, and will use calloutdebriefings from the instructor’s past experience as examples. Day two willcover the advanced topics of negotiating with different psychiatric conditions,and will focus on negotiating with those who are personality disordered and/orempathy impaired. A 15-hour hostage standoff debriefing from the instructor’spast experience will serve as an example.
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