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Handbook of violence risk assessment and treatment : new approaches for mental health professionals / Joel T. Andrade, [editor].
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Forensic psychiatry--Handbooks, manuals, etc.
- Forensic psychiatry.
- Violence--Forecasting--Handbooks, manuals, etc.
- Violence.
- Physical Description:
- 1 volume (681 pages); 24 cm.
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Springer, c2009.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- ""Forensic clinicians will find this book to be a valuable reference book as well as a very useful clinical treatment guide relevant to violent offenders."". -- Jeffrey L. Metzner, MD. Mental health practitioners are confronted with the difficult task of assessing the risk that offenders pose to the general public. This comprehensive volume provides practitioners with the knowledge and insight necessary to conduct violence risk assessments, and to synthesize clinical and research data into comprehensive reports and oral testimony. Violence risk assessment requires a well-formulated and compreh
- Contents:
- Contents; Contributors; Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgments; PART I: ADULT VIOLENCE; PART II: YOUTH VIOLENCE; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-282-04084-7
- 9786612040849
- 0-8261-9904-6
- OCLC:
- 476263129
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