Risk assesment
22 important questions on Risk assesment
What are the critria in a risk assesment?
What is offenders profiling?
Who conducts risk assesment?
- penal suystem
-mental health care
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Goal of risk assesment?
How to do risk assesment?
What are the pros and cons unstructred risk assesment?
flexibility
con
Limited reliability Limited validity No protection against biases
What are the critques unstructed risk factors?
What is a static risk factor? Pros and cons
pro: easy to score, just look at the case. based on file info.
con: stigmatizing, irrelevant for risk management because the facts dont change
What is dynamic risk factors? Pros and cons
they grew from mental health services. some are changable.
stable: mental health ilness, you can treat it but it will take some time. but it is changeable
acut: the state a person is in like an exited state.
most dynamic factors are the stable ones.
pro: use for risk management, you can really do something
con: more difficult to rate. clinical expertise is needed.
8 central risk factors are identified?
some static, some dynamic
- criminal history, they found in studies that it is impotant
- antisocial attitudes, like right to use violence
- antisocial peers, the network you in
- antisocial personality
- substance abuse
- problematic family/relationship
- problems ar work/school
- problems with leisure/recreation
What is the critique on risk factors?
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critique on risk factors?
- one sided approach
- neglecting resilience
- leads to professional negioativms
What are protective factors?
- prosocial support, people who advocate for going to school.
- prosocial future plans
- stable relationship
you can look at static risk factors. dynamic risk factors, protective factors, when you look at these you do a structured risk assessment, we are not guided by our own opinion but research.
Critique on auctorial appoach?
Critique structred professional judgement?
- decision-making process is more challenging
- more time-intensive, you have to weight them yourself, not very strong guidelines.
- more room from subjectivity and bias
Diffrence between structred and auctorial?
actuarial
- file information suffice
- limited input evaluator
- less prone to bias
- result=group
- informs basic risk
spj
- more sources needed
- more flexibility
more prone to bias - results = individual risk judgment
- informs risk management.
Why structred is better than unstructred?
What are the 4 gens of risk assesment?
- unstructured clinical judgement
- structured approach using static factors
- structured approach using static and dynamic factors
- structured approach with integrated risk management.
What are the instruments of risk assesment and how many are there?
Legal Admissibility: Daubert
- empirically tested
- subjected to peer review
- error rate
- standards for completion, everybody uses it the same way
- generally accepted, minimal accepted by the field
What are the barriers to good implementation?
How is communication important with implementation?
What do we need when we guide intervention planning?
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