Violence risk-assessment and management : advances through structured professional judgement and sequential redirections / Christopher D. Webster, Quazi Haque, Stephen J. Hucker ; with contributions by P. Randolf Kropp, R. Karl Hanson, Mary-Lou Martin ; cover design by Design Deluxe.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Webster, Christopher D., 1936- author.

Haque, Quazi, author.

Hucker, Stephen J., author.

Contributor:

Kropp, P. Randolf, contributor.

Hanson, R. Karl, contributor.

Martin, Mary Lou, contributor.

Design Deluxe.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Dangerously mentally ill.

Violence.

Risk assessment.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxi, 227 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

Second edition.

Place of Publication:

Chichester, UK : John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., 2014.

Summary:

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 interventions based on newly developed instrumentsCovers policy standards developed since the publication of the first editionInterdisciplinary perspective facilitates collaboration between professionalsIncludes contributions from P.Randolf Kropp, R. Karl Hanson, Mar

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

Link 7: Situational Complexities

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on a print version record.

Other Format:

Print version:

ISBN:

9781118485545

1118485548

9781118485460

1118485467

9781118485569

1118485564

OCLC:

861081060