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Forensic Assessment of Violence Risk A Guide for Risk Assessment and Risk Management

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ISBN-10: 0470049332

ISBN-13: 9780470049334

Edition: 2008

Authors: Mary Alice Conroy, Daniel C. Murrie

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"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.
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Book details

List price: $112.95
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated
Publication date: 10/12/2007
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 384
Size: 6.14" wide x 9.21" long x 1.26" tall
Weight: 1.672

David DeMatteo, J.D., Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor of Psychology at Drexel University, and Co-Director of Drexel's JD/PhD Program in Law and Psychology. Daniel C. Murrie , Ph.D., works as Director of Psychology at the Institute of Law, Psychiatry and Public Policy and as an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Neurobehavioral Sciences at the University of Virginia School of Medicine. Natalie M. Anumba , M.S., is a doctoral candidate in clinical psychology at Drexel University and a predoctoral clinical psychology intern at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Michael E. Keesler , B.A., is an advanced student in the JD/PhD Program in Law and Psychology at…    

Preface
Acknowledgments
Historical Overview of Risk Assessment
Introducing a Broad Model for Risk Assessment
Risk of What? Defining the Referral Question
What Do We Know Overall? Consider Normative Data and Population Base Rates
What Do We Know about Individuals Like This One? Empirically Supported Risk and Protective Factors
What Do We Know about This Individual? Idiographic Factors and the Need for Individualized Assessment
What Can We Say about the Results of a Risk Assessment? Risk Communication
From Risk Assessment to Risk Management
Risk Assessment of Patients with Serious Mental Illness
Risk Assessment with Sexual Offenders
Risk Assessment with Juvenile Offenders
Risk Assessment of Death Penalty Defendants
Epilogue
Risk Assessment Instruments
Sample Risk Assessment Reports
References
Index