Forensic Assessment of Violence Risk

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.

Preface vii Acknowledgments xi 1 Historical Overview of Risk Assessment 1 2 Introducing a Broad Model for Risk Assessment 16 3 Risk of What? Defining the Referral Question 34 4 What Do We Know Overall? Consider Normative Data and Population Base Rates 45 5 What Do We Know about Individuals Like This One? Empirically Supported Risk and Protective Factors 67 6 What Do We Know about This Individual? Idiographic Factors and the Need for Individualized Assessment 83 7 What Can We Say about the Results of a Risk Assessment? Risk Communication 99 8 From Risk Assessment to Risk Management 135 9 Risk Assessment of Patients with Serious Mental Illness 153 10 Risk Assessment with Sexual Offenders 179 11 Risk Assessment with Juvenile Offenders 202 12 Risk Assessment of Death Penalty Defendants 235 Epilogue 255 Appendix A Risk Assessment Instruments 259 Appendix B Sample Risk Assessment Reports 269 References 309 Index 353