Clinician's Guide to Violence Risk Assessment
by Mills, Jeremy F.; Kroner, Daryl G.; Morgan, Robert D.Downloadable: 180 Days
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Summary
Author Biography
Table of Contents
Violence Risk Assessment: An Introduction | p. 1 |
The Clinician's Knowledge and Training | p. 3 |
Why Conduct Violence Risk Assessments? | p. 5 |
Therapeutic versus Violence Risk Assessments | p. 11 |
Advancements in Risk Assessment | p. 15 |
Ethics Essentials | p. 24 |
Conclusion | p. 32 |
Violence Risk Factors | p. 33 |
Violent Reoffending in the Criminal Recidivist | p. 34 |
Offenders with Mental Disorders | p. 36 |
Sexual Violence | p. 44 |
Spousal Violence | p. 50 |
Psychopathic Traits | p. 55 |
Conclusion | p. 64 |
Risk Appraisal Instruments | p. 65 |
Instruments Specifically Developed to Predict Nonsexual Violence | p. 69 |
Instruments Developed to Predict General Reoffending That Also Predict Nonsexual Violence | p. 81 |
Instruments Developed to Predict Sexual Violence | p. 87 |
Instruments Developed to Predict Spousal Violence | p. 102 |
Issues in Risk Assessment | p. 108 |
Choosing a Risk Appraisal Instrument | p. 109 |
Professional Override? | p. 118 |
Assessing Change from Intervention/Treatment | p. 120 |
The Perception and Communication of Risk Information | p. 124 |
An Integrated-Actuarial Approach to the Assessment and Management of Risk for Violence | p. 134 |
Anchoring the Assessment with Actuarial Estimates | p. 135 |
Integrating Dynamic Factors for Intervention/Treatment and Risk Management Purposes | p. 136 |
The Two-Tiered Violence Risk Estimates Scale: An Integrated-Actuarial Approach | p. 139 |
Other Examples of Integrated-Actuarial Risk Assessment | p. 156 |
Interventions to Reduce Risk | p. 157 |
The Risk Assessment Process | p. 159 |
Transparency | p. 159 |
Information Gathering | p. 163 |
Reporting the Findings | p. 167 |
Telling the Story: An Outline for the Report | p. 172 |
Assessment Context | p. 173 |
Psychosocial Background | p. 177 |
History of Violence and Criminal Behavior | p. 183 |
Risk Assessment and Risk Management | p. 184 |
Testifying in Legal Proceedings | p. 189 |
Appendix. Sample Violence Risk Assessment | p. 193 |
References | p. 207 |
Index | p. 233 |
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