Violence risk-assessment and management : advances through structured professional judgement and sequential redirections /

This expanded and updated new edition reflects the growing importance of the structured professional judgement approach to violence risk assessment and management. It offers comprehensive guidance on decision-making in cases where future violence is a potential issue. Includes discussion of interven...

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Other Authors: Webster, Christopher D., 1936-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Chichester, West Sussex, UK : Wiley Blackwell, 2014
Edition:2nd ed.
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Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Violence Risk-Assessment and Management: Advances Through Structured Professional Judgement and Sequential Redirections; Copyright; Contents; Tribute; List of Figures; List of Tables; List of Boxes; About the Authors; Foreword; Preface to the Second Edition; Acknowledgments; 1 Decision Points; Laws; Interfaces; Professional Ethics and Standards; Notes; 2 Points of View; Psychoanalysis; Phenomenology; Conventional Behaviorism; Radical Behaviorism; Brain-Behavior Relationships; The Relevance of Theory to Assessing and Managing Risks; Scientific Methods; Recent Theoretical Innovations; Notes
  • 3 Predictions and ErrorsPredictions Under Duress; Actuarial Predictions; Predictions in the Individual Case; Prediction Errors; The Actuarial vs. Clinical Debate; Checklists; Notes; 4 Developmental Trajectories; Severe Developmental Problems; Intellectual Deficit Problems; Conduct and Personality Problems; SNAP: Working Backwards from a Treatment Program to the Creation of Risk Assessment Devices; Development of the EARL-20B and the EARL-21G7; Testing the EARLs; Development of the SAVRY; Development of the START: AV; Concluding Remark; Notes; 5 Symptomologies; Introduction
  • Symptoms and Causal MechanismsFunctional Psychoses; Threat/Control Override (TCO); Moods; Anxiety Disorders; Impulse Control Disorders; Paraphilias; Learning Disability and Neurodevelopmental Disorders; Acquired Brain Injury (ABI); Dissociative and Conversion Disorders; Malingering and Factitious Disorders; Concluding Remarks; Notes; 6 Personality Disorders; Definitions and Classifications; Epidemiology and Natural History; Personality Disorders and Violence; Psychopathy; Notes; 7 Substance Abuse; Definitions and Classifications; Substance Abuse and Violence; Note
  • 8 Factors: Risk and Protective, Single, Multiple, and InteractingThe Search for Risk Factors at the Metropolitan Toronto Forensic Service (METFORS); The Search for Risk Factors in the MacArthur Study; Complexities; Gathering Facts for Factors; Notes; 9 SPJ Guides; Tube Map; Scientific Verification of SPJ Schemes; Constructing SPJ Schemes; Development of the HCR-20; Testing the HCR-20: Versions 1 and 2; Development of the START; Testing the START; Established SPJ Schemes Covered in Other Chapters; Other SPJ Risk Assessment Devices; DASA:IV; WRA-20; ERA-20; PRISM; RMGAO; S-RAMM; JSAT; SAM; SAMI
  • SPJ Schemes Which Could Be DevelopedNotes; 10 Competitions; Notes; 11 Planning; Introductory Considerations; Formulations; SPJ and Planning; Notes; 12 Transitions; Measuring the Effects of Transitions; Achieving Successful Transitions; Preparing Clients for Transitions; Notes; 13 Sequential Redirections1; Contemporary Influences; Structured Professional Judgment and Intervention Planning; Pedals (Footholds): History and Therapeutic Alliance; History; Therapeutic Alliance; Link 1: Awareness; Link 2: Identity; Link 3: Idiosyncrasies; Link 4: Predictability; Link 5: Engagement; Link 6: Plans