Exam 10: A: Risk Assessment

A court decision mandated the release of 400 forensic psychiatric patients into the community.The clinical staff rated all these patients as being "dangerous" if released into the community.Researchers have conducted a three-year follow-up study on these 400 patients.Of this 400,100 were arrested for committing another violent offence.You should conclude the following from this finding:

Which of the following statements is true regarding prediction outcomes in the context of risk assessment?

Which of the following is a methodological weakness of risk assessment and related research?

Currently,what is/are the primary objectives of violence risk assessment?

Which method of risk assessment bases decisions on predetermined risk factors that are statistically and empirically related with a specific outcome?

Using the VRAG,which of the 12 predictors of violence listed below is the least predictive of violent recidivism?

Dr.James Grigson was a psychiatrist known to use a(n)_____________ approach to risk assessment.

Monahan (2012)recommended that each of the following variables be examined as potential risk factors for terrorism except:

If a mental health patient makes a specific threat against another person (i.e.,I'm going to stab my roommate Sandra the next time she wakes me up in the middle of the night with her partying"),mental health professionals are expected to intervene to prevent such behaviour.This responsibility is called:

Victims of ____________ have an increased likelihood of becoming perpetrators of violent crime.

One advantage of using the unstructured clinical judgment approach to assess risk of violence is ______________,whereas one disadvantage is _______________.

In predicting violent acts,a ______________ is an incorrect prediction in which a person is predicted to be violent but does not act violently.

The HCR-20 organizes risk factors into which of the following three scales?

In predicting violent acts,a ______________ is an incorrect prediction in which a person is predicted to be nonviolent but acts violently.

Approximately ________ of female offenders report experiencing severe physical abuse as a child or adolescent.

The HCR-20 is:

Which of the following is not one of the "central eight" risk factors that have been reliably associated with recidivism on the LS/CMI?

Which of the following factors has been found to be a protective factor for men but a risk factor for women?

Consisting of ten items,the ____________ is an actuarial scale developed for the prediction of sexual recidivism.

The assessment test most commonly used by correctional psychologists is the: