Choosing the best violence risk assessment tool for your practice: Is any one really better than another?

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Yang ◽  
S. C. P. Wong Wong ◽  
J. Coid
Keyword(s):  
Risk Assessment ◽  
Assessment Tool ◽  
Risk Assessment Tool ◽  
Violence Risk ◽  
Violence Risk Assessment ◽  
Better Than

scholarly journals Implementation of a violence risk assessment tool on a safety-net inpatient psychiatry unit

2017 ◽  
Vol 47 ◽  
pp. 114-115 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeffrey Seal ◽  
Bernard Lee ◽  
Mark Leary ◽  
Nicholas Riano ◽  
Christina Mangurian
Keyword(s):  
Risk Assessment ◽  
Assessment Tool ◽  
Safety Net ◽  
Risk Assessment Tool ◽  
Violence Risk ◽  
Violence Risk Assessment ◽  
Inpatient Psychiatry

Use of a Violence Risk Assessment Tool in an Acute Care Hospital

AAOHN Journal ◽  
2006 ◽  
Vol 54 (11) ◽  
pp. 481-487 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rakel Kling ◽  
Marc Corbière ◽  
Rebecca Milord ◽  
Janet G. Morrison ◽  
Kevin Craib ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Risk Assessment ◽  
Acute Care ◽  
Assessment Tool ◽  
Acute Care Hospital ◽  
Risk Assessment Tool ◽  
Violence Risk ◽  
Care Hospital ◽  
Violence Risk Assessment

scholarly journals VIOLENCE RISK ASSESSMENT IN PSYCHIATRY - LITERATURE REVIEW AND PRACTICE COMPARISON BETWEEN LATVIA AND GERMANY

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 ◽  
pp. 357-367
Author(s):  
Karina Konstantinova ◽  
Alina Kuznecova
Keyword(s):  
Risk Assessment ◽  
Community Violence ◽  
Clinical Assessment ◽  
Assessment Tool ◽  
Legal Framework ◽  
Assessment Tools ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
Violence Risk ◽  
Mentally Disordered Offenders ◽  
Violence Risk Assessment

Evidence-based future community violence risk assessment is a crucial issue in psychiatry. It is a cornerstone of safeguarding the rights of persons with mental health issues. Authors aimed to analyse the modern methods of risk assessment in psychiatry and the current practice and legal framework. Authors undertook a scoped review of the literature with search terms related to future community violence risk prediction for mentally disordered offenders in Latvian, English, German, and Russian languages. Main difficulties in future community violence risk assessment are demonstrated via Latvia’s court decisions analysis. Marked differences were identified: there are no standardized methods available/registered in Latvia, therefore risks assessment is performed via clinical assessment only. In Germany, the risk assessment is performed via structured evidence – based risk assessment tools and clinical assessment; nevertheless, the choice of the assessment tool remains challenging.  

The evolution of violence risk assessment

CNS Spectrums ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 19 (5) ◽  
pp. 419-424 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Monahan ◽  
Jennifer L. Skeem
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Risk Assessment ◽  
Risk Assessments ◽  
Violence Risk ◽  
Mental Health Clinicians ◽  
Violence Risk Assessment ◽  
Many Instruments ◽  
Better Than

Many instruments have been published in recent years to improve the ability of mental health clinicians to estimate the likelihood that an individual will behave violently toward others. Increasingly, these instruments are being applied in response to laws that require specialized risk assessments. In this review, we present a framework that goes beyond the “clinical” and “actuarial” dichotomy to describe a continuum of structured approaches to risk assessment. Despite differences among them, there is little evidence that one instrument predicts violence better than another. We believe that these group-based instruments are useful for assessing an individual's risk, and that the instrument should be chosen based on the purpose of the assessment.

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