Structured Clinical Guides
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Structured Clinical Judgment (SCJ) also referred to as Structured Professional Judgment (SPJ) is a combination of actuarial tools and unstructured clinical judgments (that rely upon an expert’s ability to determine the risk of an individual based on personal experience and knowledge) by providing a guide of empirically based items that are recommended for a clinician to examine in-depth.
HCR-20 (Historical, Clinical, Risk-20)
The HCR-20 takes it name from these three scales — Historical, Clinical, Risk Management — and from the number of items it contains, twenty.
The HCR-20 is a broad-band violence risk assessment instrument with potential applicability to a variety of settings. The conceptual scheme of the HCR-20 aligns risk markers into past, present, and future based upon three categories - Historical, Clinical and Risk Management. Its ten Historical factors obviously concern the past. However, the HCR-20 contains five Clinical items that are meant to reflect current, dynamic (changeable) correlates of violence. The future is recognized in the five Risk Management items, which focus attention on situational post-assessment factors that may aggravate or mitigate risk.
Psychopathy Checklist - Revised (PCL-R)
Even though it was not originally designed as a risk assessment device, the Hare PCL-R has gradually come to be used to assess likely future recidivism and violent offending. It is a rating scale of twenty items, scored on the basis of both semi-structured interview and collateral information. It has been validated for use in adult male correctional and forensic psychiatric samples. Over recent years, research has shown that it is a relatively good predictor of violence across diverse populations. Hare PCL-R scores are incorporated into a number of subsequently developed risk assessment tools and guides.
RSVP (Risk for Sexual Violence Protocol)
The RSVP has twenty-two risk factors split into Sexual Violence History, Psychological Adjustment, Metal Disorder, Social Adjustment and Manageability. The authors have developed a worksheet that can be used to help work through the stages and ensure clear concise documentation of the risk assessment process. Strictly speaking, like other SPJ tools, the RSVP is not "scored" (although sometimes scores are used in research). Risk factors are indicated as "Y" definitely or conclusively present; "?" partially or possibly present, or evidence is mixed or inconclusive; or "N" absent, or there is no evidence indicating the risk factor is present.
SVR-20 (Sexual Violence Risk-20)
The instrument includes three major sections: Psychosocial Adjustment, Sexual Offenses, and Future Plans. The SVR-20 has twenty factors that are coded based on being present (Yes or No) and if present, whether there has been a recent change in status regarding those factors, i.e. Increase, No Change, Decrease.
The Psychosocial Adjustment section includes eleven risk factors: sexual deviation, victim of child abuse , psychopathy, major mental illness, substance use problems, suicidal/homicidal ideation (ideas), relationship problems, employment problems, past non-sexual violent offenses, past non-violent offenses, and past supervision failure.
The Sexual Offenses section includes seven risk factors: high-density sex offenses, multiple sex offense types, physical harm to victim(s) in sex offenses, escalation in frequency and severity of sex offenses, extreme minimization or denial of sex offenses, and attitudes that support or condone sex offenses.
The Future Plans section includes two factors: lacks realistic plans, and negative attitude toward intervention . Aside from factors related to the examinee's thinking and personality, items found in the first and second sections reference fixed or relatively stable characteristics.
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Structured Clinical Judgment (SCJ) also referred to as Structured Professional Judgment (SPJ) is a combination of actuarial tools and unstructured clinical judgments (that rely upon an expert’s ability to determine the risk of an individual based on personal experience and knowledge) by providing a guide of empirically based items that are recommended for a clinician to examine in-depth.
HCR-20 (Historical, Clinical, Risk-20)
The HCR-20 takes it name from these three scales — Historical, Clinical, Risk Management — and from the number of items it contains, twenty.
The HCR-20 is a broad-band violence risk assessment instrument with potential applicability to a variety of settings. The conceptual scheme of the HCR-20 aligns risk markers into past, present, and future based upon three categories - Historical, Clinical and Risk Management. Its ten Historical factors obviously concern the past. However, the HCR-20 contains five Clinical items that are meant to reflect current, dynamic (changeable) correlates of violence. The future is recognized in the five Risk Management items, which focus attention on situational post-assessment factors that may aggravate or mitigate risk.
Psychopathy Checklist - Revised (PCL-R)
Even though it was not originally designed as a risk assessment device, the Hare PCL-R has gradually come to be used to assess likely future recidivism and violent offending. It is a rating scale of twenty items, scored on the basis of both semi-structured interview and collateral information. It has been validated for use in adult male correctional and forensic psychiatric samples. Over recent years, research has shown that it is a relatively good predictor of violence across diverse populations. Hare PCL-R scores are incorporated into a number of subsequently developed risk assessment tools and guides.
RSVP (Risk for Sexual Violence Protocol)
The RSVP has twenty-two risk factors split into Sexual Violence History, Psychological Adjustment, Metal Disorder, Social Adjustment and Manageability. The authors have developed a worksheet that can be used to help work through the stages and ensure clear concise documentation of the risk assessment process. Strictly speaking, like other SPJ tools, the RSVP is not "scored" (although sometimes scores are used in research). Risk factors are indicated as "Y" definitely or conclusively present; "?" partially or possibly present, or evidence is mixed or inconclusive; or "N" absent, or there is no evidence indicating the risk factor is present.
SVR-20 (Sexual Violence Risk-20)
The instrument includes three major sections: Psychosocial Adjustment, Sexual Offenses, and Future Plans. The SVR-20 has twenty factors that are coded based on being present (Yes or No) and if present, whether there has been a recent change in status regarding those factors, i.e. Increase, No Change, Decrease.
The Psychosocial Adjustment section includes eleven risk factors: sexual deviation, victim of child abuse , psychopathy, major mental illness, substance use problems, suicidal/homicidal ideation (ideas), relationship problems, employment problems, past non-sexual violent offenses, past non-violent offenses, and past supervision failure.
The Sexual Offenses section includes seven risk factors: high-density sex offenses, multiple sex offense types, physical harm to victim(s) in sex offenses, escalation in frequency and severity of sex offenses, extreme minimization or denial of sex offenses, and attitudes that support or condone sex offenses.
The Future Plans section includes two factors: lacks realistic plans, and negative attitude toward intervention . Aside from factors related to the examinee's thinking and personality, items found in the first and second sections reference fixed or relatively stable characteristics.
If there is an assessment that you need information on that is not shown above, please contact us using our Contact Us page or by email to [email protected]