Description
Book SynopsisThis expanded and updated new edition reflects the growing importance of the structured professional judgement approach to violence risk assessment and management. It offers comprehensive guidance on decision-making in cases where future violence is a potential issue.
- Includes discussion of interventions based on newly developed instruments
- Covers policy standards developed since the publication of the first edition
- Interdisciplinary perspective facilitates collaboration between professionals
- Includes contributions from P.Randolf Kropp, R. Karl Hanson, Mary-Lou Martin, Alec Buchanan and John Monahan
Trade Review"Violence Risk Assessment and Management is a compact book that excels in educating and enlightening the psychiatrist-in-training and the seasoned forensic psychiatrist about this important topic. I have waited nearly 40 years for this book." The Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law, 2015
Table of ContentsTribute Dr. F.a.s. Jenson vi
List of Figures vii
List of Tables viii
List of Boxes ix
About the Authors x
Foreword Alec Buchanan xii
Preface to the Second Edition xviii
Acknowledgements xxi
1 Decision Points 1
2 Points of View 8
3 Predictions and Errors 15
4 Developmental Trajectories 26
5 Symptomologies 33
6 Personality Disorders 47
7 Substance Abuse 55
8 Factors: Risk and Protective, Single, Multiple, and Interacting 61
9 SPJ Guides 72
10 Competitions 88
11 Planning 92
12 Transitions Mary-Lou Martin 98
13 Sequential Redirections 106
14 Implementations 116
15 Teaching and Researching SPJ Guides 123
16 Spousal Assaulters: Risk Assessment and Management P. Randall Kropp 138
17 Sex Offenders R. Karl Hanson 148
18 Teams 159
19 Communications 163
20 Getting it Wrong, Getting it Right (Mostly) 170
Questions 187
Afterword John Monahan, PhD 195
References 200
Index 224
