Forensic Assessment of Violence Risk: A Guide for Risk Assessment and Risk Management

✍ Scribed by Mary Alice Conroy, Daniel C. Murrie(auth.)

• Year: 2007
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 377
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Forensic Assessment of Violence Risk: A Guide for Risk Assessment and Risk Management provides both a summary of research to date and an integrated model for mental health professionals conducting risk assessments, one of the most high-stakes evaluations forensic mental health professionals perform.Content:
Chapter 1 Historical Overview of Risk Assessment (pages 1–15):
Chapter 2 Introducing a Broad Model for Risk Assessment (pages 16–33):
Chapter 3 Risk of What?: Defining the Referral Question (pages 34–44):
Chapter 4 What Do We Know Overall?: Consider Normative Data and Population Base Rates (pages 45–66):
Chapter 5 What Do We Know about Individuals Like This One?: Empirically Supported Risk and Protective Factors (pages 67–82):
Chapter 6 What Do We Know about This Individual?: Idiographic Factors and the Need for Individualized Assessment (pages 83–98):
Chapter 7 What Can We Say about the Results of a Risk Assessment?: Risk Communication (pages 99–134):
Chapter 8 From Risk Assessment to Risk Management (pages 135–152):
Chapter 9 Risk Assessment of Patients with Serious Mental Illness (pages 153–178):
Chapter 10 Risk Assessment with Sexual Offenders (pages 179–201):
Chapter 11 Risk Assessment with Juvenile Offenders (pages 202–234):
Chapter 12 Risk Assessment of Death Penalty Defendants (pages 235–253):