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Assessing Violence Risk: A Review and Clinical Recommendations

✍ Scribed by Ulrika Haggård-Grann

Publisher
American Counseling Association
Year
2007
Tongue
English
Weight
125 KB
Volume
85
Category
Article
ISSN
1556-6678

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✦ Synopsis

Guidance to identify and manage clients with a perceived high risk for future violence is of great importance for mental health professionals. In the past decade, several structured instruments have been developed to assess risk of future violence. Awareness of the limits and abilities of such instruments is required. This article reviews the most well‐known risk assessment tools and provides recommendations for how to approach the area of violence risk assessment.

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