Inpatient Aggression: Assessment, Management, and Treatment (January 14, 2026) | VIRTUAL

The Institute of Law, Psychiatry, and Public Policy presents:

Inpatient Aggression: Assessment, Management, and Treatment | January 14, 2026 from 12:30-3:30PM (EST) | VIRTUAL

Summary

This half-day, online training addresses assessment, management, and treatment of problematic and aggressive behaviors in psychiatric hospitals and other inpatient settings. A primary focus is aggression that stems from psychosis or personality disorders. The speaker is psychiatrist and national expert, Dr. Katherine Warburton, Medical Director of California’s Department of State Hospital (DSH) system.

Workshop Description

Dr. Warburton will review research and practice addressing violence in inpatient psychiatric facilities. She will discuss the nature and prevalence of inpatient violence, as well as subgroups responsible for more of that violence. She will discuss strategies for assessing risk of inpatient violence, as well as intervention strategies for treating and reducing that risk. Interventions include psychiatric, psycho-social, and environmental strategies, particularly as tailored to particular types of aggression.

Learning Objectives

By the conclusion of this training, attendees will be able to:

1. Identify the three primary etiologies of inpatient aggression

2. Identify the most common types of inpatient aggression

3. Identify diagnoses associated with different types of aggression

Presenter Bio

Dr. Katherine Warburton is the Statewide Medical Director for the California Department of State Hospitals, which has over 6,000 beds and is the largest forensic inpatient system in the country. Dr. Warburton is also serving as a Special Advisor to the California Health and Human Services Agency’s Behavioral Health Transformation initiative. She is a professor on the clinical faculty within the UC Davis Division of Psychiatry and the Law. Dr. Warburton is board certified in both adult psychiatry and forensic psychiatry. She has published multiple peer reviewed articles on a variety of forensic topics including the competency crisis, public forensic mental health systems, mental health policy, and inpatient aggression. She has been invited to speak nationally and internationally on these and other forensic subjects. Dr. Warburton has published two textbooks: Violence in Psychiatry and Decriminalizing Mental Illness. Her third textbook, Ethical and Clinical Complexities in the Treatment of Schizophrenia, will be released in early 2026. Dr. Warburton has worked at the national level on the board of directors for NRI and as a non-federal member of the Interdepartmental Serious Mental Illness Coordinating Committee. She is the recipient of several awards including the 2022 Christine M. West Award and the 2025 Judge Stephen S. Goss Leadership Award.

Continuing Education

Participants can recieve 3 hours of continuing education credits (CEs) through the ILPPP, which is approved by the American Psychological Association (APA) to sponsor contining education for psychologists. ILPPP maintains responsibility for this program and its content.

Upon completion of this training, participants will be sent a Qualtrics survey link to evaluate the training. While completion of the evaluation is not required to be awarded your continuing education credits, we would greatly appreciate your feedback.

$100.00 Standard Registration

$50.00 DBHDS/CSB Employees

*If you are a DBHDS/CSB employee, please use this promo code to get the reduced price: INPATIENT26