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

by Conroy, Mary Alice; Murrie, Daniel C.

• ISBN13: 9780470049334
• ISBN10: 0470049332
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-10-12
• Publisher: Wiley

Summary

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.

Author Biography

Mary Alice Conroy, PhD, ABPP, directs the Psychological Services Center at Sam Houston State University. She is the President of the American Academy of Forensic Psychology. During a twenty-year career with the U.S. Bureau of Prisons, she conducted over 1,200 risk assessments, including risk management planning. She conducts numerous national and training workshops on forensic assessment for lawyers, judges, correctional personnel, and mental health professionals.

Daniel C. Murrie, PhD, is an Associate Professor of Psychology at Sam Houston State University. He has authored numerous studies related to forensic psychological assessment and maintains a private practice of forensic psychological evaluation, specializing in risk assessment.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. vii
Acknowledgments	p. xi
Historical Overview of Risk Assessment	p. 1
Introducing a Broad Model for Risk Assessment	p. 16
Risk of What? Defining the Referral Question	p. 34
What Do We Know Overall? Consider Normative Data and Population Base Rates	p. 45
What Do We Know about Individuals Like This One? Empirically Supported Risk and Protective Factors	p. 67
What Do We Know about This Individual? Idiographic Factors and the Need for Individualized Assessment	p. 83
What Can We Say about the Results of a Risk Assessment? Risk Communication	p. 99
From Risk Assessment to Risk Management	p. 135
Risk Assessment of Patients with Serious Mental Illness	p. 153
Risk Assessment with Sexual Offenders	p. 179
Risk Assessment with Juvenile Offenders	p. 202
Risk Assessment of Death Penalty Defendants	p. 235
Epilogue	p. 255
Risk Assessment Instruments	p. 259
Sample Risk Assessment Reports	p. 269
References	p. 309
Index	p. 353
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