“…The NETWASS program aims to prevent severe, targeted school violence through the combination of a structured threat assessment approach based on the Virginia Student Threat Assessment Guidelines (Cornell, 2013;Cornell & Sheras, 2006) with a developmentally-informed model for early and indicated crisis prevention (Leuschner et al, 2011;2017;Scheithauer, Leuschner, & NETWASS Research Group, 2014). Case analyses have shown that school shootings were long-term planned, targeted attacks and resulted from an individual psychosocial crisis of the perpetrators (O'Toole, 1999;Verlinden, Hersen, & Thomas, 2000;Vossekuil, Fein, Reddy, Borum, & Modzeleski, 2002;cf.…”