Protection Psychology Training

Offers students an awareness of the nature of the threat and provides an understanding of factors affecting their own reactions.

Includes:-

• The Fixated Individual: The biology of fixation; understanding the nature of the threat.
  

• The profile of the Stalker: Stalking typologies; Dealing with stalkers.
  

• Assassins and Would-be Assassins: The Assassin threat; Identifying risk factors; The psychology of assassination attempts.
  

• Cognitions in the Protection Arena: Vigilance and how to maintain it; The mechanisms of attention; Finding a face in a crowd; Reacting to atypical threats.
  

• Understanding Crowd Behaviour: Dealing with the crowd; Mob mentality and its effects.

• Dealing with the Fearful Principal: The effects of danger on the principal; Handling the principal's fight or flight response.