Many instruments have been published in recent years to improve the ability of mental
health clinicians to estimate the likelihood that an individual will behave violently toward …

This study examined the validity and reliability of the Structured Assessment of Violence
Risk in Youth (SAVRY), the Youth Level of Service/Case Management Inventory (YLS/CMI) …

chopathy instruments that are sensitive to change and basic methodological problems in
measuring treatment-related change in offender samples (eg, measurement of variables not …

Legal and Ethical Issues in Assessment and Treatment 733 cal Standards and Guidelines”)
the specific role of the mental health examiner in assessing psychopathy, focusing on ethical …

Anger is becoming more widely recognized for its involvement in the psychological
adjustment problems of current war veterans. Recent research with combat veterans has …

Although low self-control is consistently related to adolescent offending, it is unknown
whether self-report measures or laboratory behavior tasks yield better predictive utility, or if a …

The reason for this study was the void of validated risk assessment screening tools for
violence in adolescence psychiatry. Our aims were to test the predictive validity and …

Objective To examine the use of implicit and explicit measures to predict adolescent
nonsuicidal self-injury (NSSI) before, during, and after inpatient hospitalization. Method …

Purpose This paper aims to explore the acceptability of Dynamic Appraisal of Situational
Aggression (DASA) from the perspective of patients, its actual use by mental health nurses …

Written and edited by leading emergency psychiatrists, this is the first comprehensive text
devoted to emergency psychiatry. The book blends the authors' clinical experience with …