Conroy / Murrie Forensic Assessment of Violence Risk

A Guide for Risk Assessment and Risk Management
1. Auflage 2008
ISBN: 978-0-470-17973-4
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 384 Seiten, E-Book

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Conroy, Mary Alice

Murrie, Daniel C.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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 andPopulation Base Rates 45
5 What Do We Know about Individuals Like This One? EmpiricallySupported Risk and Protective Factors 67
6 What Do We Know about This Individual? Idiographic Factors andthe Need for Individualized Assessment 83
7 What Can We Say about the Results of a Risk Assessment? RiskCommunication 99
8 From Risk Assessment to Risk Management 135
9 Risk Assessment of Patients with Serious Mental Illness153
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

Über Autor(innen)

Mary Alice Conroy, PhD, ABPP, directs the PsychologicalServices Center at Sam Houston State University. She is thePresident of the American Academy of Forensic Psychology. During atwenty-year career with the U.S. Bureau of Prisons, she conductedover 1,200 risk assessments, including risk management planning.She conducts numerous national and training workshops on forensicassessment for lawyers, judges, correctional personnel, and mentalhealth professionals.
Daniel C. Murrie, PhD, is an Associate Professor ofPsychology at Sam Houston State University. He has authorednumerous studies related to forensic psychological assessment andmaintains a private practice of forensic psychological evaluation,specializing in risk assessment.