Cues they use: clinicians' endorsement of risk cues in predictions of dangerousness
✍ Scribed by Michael S. Odeh; Robert A. Zeiss; Matthew T. Huss
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2006
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 80 KB
- Volume
- 24
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0735-3936
- DOI
- 10.1002/bsl.672
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✦ Synopsis
Abstract
Clinical predictions of violence are a necessary part of clinical practice despite extensive literature validating the use of actuarial rather than clinical prediction. The current study examined clinicians' use of risk cues in predictions of violence. Clinicians identified several risk cues as significant in clinical assessments of risk, including a history of assaults, hostility, medication noncompliance, paranoid delusions, presence of psychosis, and family problems. However, further results indicated that clinician‐endorsed risk cues lack predictive power in the present sample. Copyright © 2006 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.