Introduction to Homicide Risk Assessment All mental health professionals in the US and Canada have an ethical duty to warn, the requirement to warn someone who is at risk of harm of that harm. This leads clinicians to conduct homicide risk assessments to determine the level of danger to others. In therapy or crisis intervention, the clinician is…
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The Six Step Model of Crisis Intervention
In order to develop basic crisis intervention skills it is necessary to have a model on which one can work from, allowing you to understand the situations that bring a person into crisis (chiefly things that overwhelm a person’s coping strategies, where they find themselves unable to take further positive action), and the tasks that…
Spousal Assault Risk Assessment (SARA)
Introduction to Spousal Assault Risk Assessment The Spousal Assault Risk Assessment (SARA) by Kropp, Hart, Webster & Eaves (1995) is used to assess the risk of intimate partner violence. Their tool recognizes that intimate partner violence may occur without regard to gender (male on female, female on male, female on female, male on male, and any…
Youth Violence Assessment and Prevention
The following notes come from “Youth Violence: Theory, Prevention, and Intervention” by Kathryn Seifert, which I read before participating in the SAVRY (Structured Assessment of Violence Risk in Youth). Youth Violence – Prevalence and Trends Four Types of Violence Situational Relationship Predatory Psychopathological There are two types of violence, instrumental and reactive violence. The goal of…
Is the SAD PERSONS Scale dangerous?
The SAD PERSONS scale was first developed in 1983 by Patterson, Dohn, Patterson & Patterson to teach medical students clinical suicide risk assessment skills. In that first publication, students taught the tool – which features 10 risk factors for suicide that are added up, “demonstrated a significantly greater ability to accurately evaluate and make recommendations…