Extremism, radicalisation & mental health: guidance for practitioners

A few hours
Beginner

Course details

With this e-learning course, the RAN aims to provide guidance on which aspects of mental illness may be considered and how, whenever an individual exhibits both mental illness and terrorist offending or extremist behaviours. Furthermore, the RAN aims to provide guidance on how to approach working with individuals who display mental health conditions and violent extremism risk. It is designed to assist practitioners to ask the right type of questions about how each condition and its many features may link to risk and to respond to such possible links in their work.

Target audience

Practitioners working with individuals who display vulnerability to violence extremism and who experience mental health challenges. Practitioners working with individuals who have exhibited risk of violence extremism and committed terrorism offenses, who experience mental health challenges.

Learning objectives

  • Know what mental health conditions may link to violent extremism
  • Know how mental health conditions may link to violent extremism 
  • Know how to guide individuals that display mental health conditions and violent extremism risk

Offered by

This content is offered by the European Commission. The European Commission is the European Union's politically independent executive arm. It is alone responsible for drawing up proposals for new European legislation, and it implements the decisions of the European Parliament and the Council of the European Union.