ATAP CTM COMPREHENSIVE QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS SET A+
✔✔What are proactive case management strategies? - ✔✔Strategies that address
cases before they escalate.
✔✔What is integrated case management? - ✔✔Managing cases by considering all
relevant factors.
✔✔What is longitudinal monitoring? - ✔✔Monitoring a case over an extended period of
time.
✔✔What are relevant laws, policies, and standards of practice? - ✔✔Guidelines that the
team follows in their practices.
✔✔What is continuous improvement? - ✔✔A focus on improving the process over time.
✔✔What is adaptation to challenges and changing needs? - ✔✔Adjusting the process
to address new challenges and needs.
✔✔Erotomania - ✔✔a disorder involving the fixed (but incorrect) belief that one is loved
by another, which persists in the face of strong evidence to the contrary.
French Psychologist Esquirol 1838
✔✔What are public figure attacks? - ✔✔Violent incidents targeting public figures.
✔✔What are the characteristics of public figure attackers in the US? - ✔✔Mostly male,
may know their target personally, often have psychiatric and criminal histories, and
display grandiose behavior.
✔✔What is the timeframe for public figure attacks in the US? - ✔✔The past two
decades.
,✔✔What are risk factors related to contact behavior? - ✔✔Intensity of pursuit
✔✔What is intensity of pursuit? - ✔✔Higher risk factors in subjects who made multiple
contacts through multiple modalities
✔✔Intensity of pursuit - ✔✔Key variable in the assessment of approach risk to
politicians, and is often measured by frequency, duration, and multiple means of
contact.
✔✔Dietz et al; 1991 - ✔✔First study focusing on stalking celebrities
✔✔What is a red flag for a dangerous person? - ✔✔Obsession with the victim
✔✔What is entitled reciprocity? - ✔✔Unrealistic or delusional expectations of the victim
✔✔What can trigger violent behavior in a dangerous person? - ✔✔Anger towards the
victim's behavior
✔✔What is the elevated risk for celebrities? - ✔✔Being stalking victims.
✔✔What is the intent of most stalkers of celebrities? - ✔✔Benign intent.
✔✔What are the common themes in communications from stalkers to celebrities? -
✔✔Love, adoration, and perceived rejection.
✔✔What is the central point of analysis in estimating the probability of approach by
stalkers? - ✔✔Intensity of fixation.
✔✔Why is the general rate of physical violence low towards celebrities? - ✔✔Enhanced
security measures.
✔✔Has there been an increase in lethal or near lethal attacks on celebrities? - ✔✔Yes,
since 1980.
✔✔What is the mental state of a significant minority of stalkers and attackers of
celebrities? - ✔✔Psychotic.
✔✔Is there a correlation between frequency of appearance and notoriety of a celebrity
and the number of stalkers? - ✔✔Yes, a linear and positive correlation.
✔✔What is the publicly intimate figure? - ✔✔A term referring to celebrities whose
personal and professional lives are often co-mingled and accessible through social
media.
, ✔✔What is Meloy 2016? - ✔✔Possibly a reference to a specific study or publication
related to the concept of the publicly intimate figure.
✔✔Why is access to information about celebrities omnipresent? - ✔✔Due to the
widespread use of social media and the internet, information about celebrities is easily
accessible to the public.
✔✔How are personal and professional activities often co-mingled for the publicly
intimate figure? - ✔✔Celebrities often share personal aspects of their lives on social
media, blurring the line between their personal and professional identities.
✔✔What is meant by social media accounts across multiple platforms? - ✔✔Celebrities
often have accounts on various social media platforms, allowing them to reach a wider
audience and share different aspects of their lives.
✔✔Pathological Fixations - ✔✔Continuous preoccupations that typically result in
deterioration of the subject's intimate, social, and occupations life. (Leets, et al 1995)
✔✔Sequential dispersion - ✔✔Fairly rapid movement from one individual target to
another with threats and communications of concern.
✔✔Audience Dispersion - ✔✔A fixation on one individual target, but then bringing in
others as an audience, for example, multiple copying of other on threatening or
concerning emails. This suggestions accelerated risk for targeted violence due to
intensity of pursuit. (Scalora 2022, Meloy 2014)
✔✔Target Dispersion - ✔✔Generalizing from the individual to a group within which the
target belongs, for example, one woman to hating all women.
✔✔What is visible security? - ✔✔Strong deterrent for attackers.
✔✔Why is visible security effective? - ✔✔Deters attackers concerned about survival
and escape.
✔✔What is public figure threat assessment? - ✔✔Evaluation of potential dangers to
public figures.
✔✔What is the old province of public figure threat assessment? - ✔✔Previous area of
focus or jurisdiction.
✔✔What is the new empirical grounding of public figure threat assessment? -
✔✔Current evidence-based approach to the assessment.
ANSWERS SET A+
✔✔What are proactive case management strategies? - ✔✔Strategies that address
cases before they escalate.
✔✔What is integrated case management? - ✔✔Managing cases by considering all
relevant factors.
✔✔What is longitudinal monitoring? - ✔✔Monitoring a case over an extended period of
time.
✔✔What are relevant laws, policies, and standards of practice? - ✔✔Guidelines that the
team follows in their practices.
✔✔What is continuous improvement? - ✔✔A focus on improving the process over time.
✔✔What is adaptation to challenges and changing needs? - ✔✔Adjusting the process
to address new challenges and needs.
✔✔Erotomania - ✔✔a disorder involving the fixed (but incorrect) belief that one is loved
by another, which persists in the face of strong evidence to the contrary.
French Psychologist Esquirol 1838
✔✔What are public figure attacks? - ✔✔Violent incidents targeting public figures.
✔✔What are the characteristics of public figure attackers in the US? - ✔✔Mostly male,
may know their target personally, often have psychiatric and criminal histories, and
display grandiose behavior.
✔✔What is the timeframe for public figure attacks in the US? - ✔✔The past two
decades.
,✔✔What are risk factors related to contact behavior? - ✔✔Intensity of pursuit
✔✔What is intensity of pursuit? - ✔✔Higher risk factors in subjects who made multiple
contacts through multiple modalities
✔✔Intensity of pursuit - ✔✔Key variable in the assessment of approach risk to
politicians, and is often measured by frequency, duration, and multiple means of
contact.
✔✔Dietz et al; 1991 - ✔✔First study focusing on stalking celebrities
✔✔What is a red flag for a dangerous person? - ✔✔Obsession with the victim
✔✔What is entitled reciprocity? - ✔✔Unrealistic or delusional expectations of the victim
✔✔What can trigger violent behavior in a dangerous person? - ✔✔Anger towards the
victim's behavior
✔✔What is the elevated risk for celebrities? - ✔✔Being stalking victims.
✔✔What is the intent of most stalkers of celebrities? - ✔✔Benign intent.
✔✔What are the common themes in communications from stalkers to celebrities? -
✔✔Love, adoration, and perceived rejection.
✔✔What is the central point of analysis in estimating the probability of approach by
stalkers? - ✔✔Intensity of fixation.
✔✔Why is the general rate of physical violence low towards celebrities? - ✔✔Enhanced
security measures.
✔✔Has there been an increase in lethal or near lethal attacks on celebrities? - ✔✔Yes,
since 1980.
✔✔What is the mental state of a significant minority of stalkers and attackers of
celebrities? - ✔✔Psychotic.
✔✔Is there a correlation between frequency of appearance and notoriety of a celebrity
and the number of stalkers? - ✔✔Yes, a linear and positive correlation.
✔✔What is the publicly intimate figure? - ✔✔A term referring to celebrities whose
personal and professional lives are often co-mingled and accessible through social
media.
, ✔✔What is Meloy 2016? - ✔✔Possibly a reference to a specific study or publication
related to the concept of the publicly intimate figure.
✔✔Why is access to information about celebrities omnipresent? - ✔✔Due to the
widespread use of social media and the internet, information about celebrities is easily
accessible to the public.
✔✔How are personal and professional activities often co-mingled for the publicly
intimate figure? - ✔✔Celebrities often share personal aspects of their lives on social
media, blurring the line between their personal and professional identities.
✔✔What is meant by social media accounts across multiple platforms? - ✔✔Celebrities
often have accounts on various social media platforms, allowing them to reach a wider
audience and share different aspects of their lives.
✔✔Pathological Fixations - ✔✔Continuous preoccupations that typically result in
deterioration of the subject's intimate, social, and occupations life. (Leets, et al 1995)
✔✔Sequential dispersion - ✔✔Fairly rapid movement from one individual target to
another with threats and communications of concern.
✔✔Audience Dispersion - ✔✔A fixation on one individual target, but then bringing in
others as an audience, for example, multiple copying of other on threatening or
concerning emails. This suggestions accelerated risk for targeted violence due to
intensity of pursuit. (Scalora 2022, Meloy 2014)
✔✔Target Dispersion - ✔✔Generalizing from the individual to a group within which the
target belongs, for example, one woman to hating all women.
✔✔What is visible security? - ✔✔Strong deterrent for attackers.
✔✔Why is visible security effective? - ✔✔Deters attackers concerned about survival
and escape.
✔✔What is public figure threat assessment? - ✔✔Evaluation of potential dangers to
public figures.
✔✔What is the old province of public figure threat assessment? - ✔✔Previous area of
focus or jurisdiction.
✔✔What is the new empirical grounding of public figure threat assessment? -
✔✔Current evidence-based approach to the assessment.
