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Assessing Violence Risk: A Review and Clinical Recommendations
Author(s) -
HaggårdGrann Ulrika
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
journal of counseling and development
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.805
H-Index - 78
eISSN - 1556-6676
pISSN - 0748-9633
DOI - 10.1002/j.1556-6678.2007.tb00477.x
Subject(s) - risk assessment , mental health , risk management tools , psychology , risk analysis (engineering) , medicine , environmental health , psychiatry , computer science , computer security
Guidance to identify and manage clients with a perceived high risk for future violence is of great importance for mental health professionals. In the past decade, several structured instruments have been developed to assess risk of future violence. Awareness of the limits and abilities of such instruments is required. This article reviews the most well‐known risk assessment tools and provides recommendations for how to approach the area of violence risk assessment.