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Showing 1 to 20 of 24 for “"violence risk"”.
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Development and Implementation of a Violence Risk Assessment Tool
… within the healthcare setting. Workplace violence is a serious problem that affects all healthcare professionals. Although serious assaults and homicides attract more media attention, the majority of workplace violence consists of non-fatal assaults. Nurses, aides, and patient care …
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Communicating violence risk: judicial decision making in involuntary civil commitments
… in the 1990s, researchers in the field of violence risk assessment recognized that even the most accurate and valid risk assessment could not assist fact-finders if violence risk was not communicated in a clear, precise, and complete manner (Monahan & Steadman, 1996; Schopp, 1996). Due to …
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Implementation of Violence Risk Assessment Tool on In-patient Psychiatric Unit
<p>Violence towards healthcare workers in acute care settings, particularly mental health units is increasing nationwide, causing safety and financial concerns for health care organizations. Efforts were made to decrease assaults directed towards healthcare staff on a twenty five bed adult mental …
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The reliability and validity of the violence risk scale - experimental version 1
… for instruments that can accurately predict the risk of violence. As a result, efforts to improve risk prediction techniques have intensified. However, the accurate prediction of violence has proved to be a difficult task, often plagued by inaccuracies and a general lack of validity (Douglas, …
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The validity and reliability of the violence risk scale-youth version (VRS-YV)
… and psychometric properties of a newly developed violence risk assessment and treatment planning measure for youth – the Violence Risk Scale-Youth Version (VRS-YV; Lewis, Wong, & Gordon, 2004). Composed of 4 static and 19 dynamic items, the VRS-YV is designed to assess violence risk, identify …
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Investigating the assessment and treatment of violence in adolscents with developmental disabilities
… thesis explores the assessment and treatment of violence in adolescents with Developmental Disabilities (DD). Chapter 1 provides a summary of the background literature, and rationale for the thesis. A literature review exploring the availability and effectiveness of treatment with individuals …
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Anger: Its Role and Relation to Aggression and Coercive Containment in Secure Adult Mental Health Services
… in significant costs. Anger is an important risk factor, but research into the role of its constituents is limited. The role of nursing staff's anger in their reactions to aggressive patients is poorly understood. AIMS: This thesis examined the role of anger and its components in patient …
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The assessment and management of violence in forensic populations
… management of individuals with a perceived high risk of future violence is of great priority for mental health professionals and the criminal justice system. The overall aim of this thesis is to examine the validity of the assessment and treatment of violence in forensic populations with a …
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Risk Factors for Sexual Coercion in Male Batterers
This exploratory study examined risk factors for sexual coercion using data provided by 87 couples that were screened to participate in a couples treatment program for domestic violence. Risk factors examined included: level of alcohol use, anger, beliefs about wife beating, jealousy, dominance, …
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Does Race Matter? An Examination of Defendant Race on Legal Decision Making in the Context of Actuarial Risk Assessments
… Because triers of fact may be less familiar with risk assessment results presented by expert witnesses, there is a need to examine how legal decision-making is being affected by race in this context. This study aimed to examine whether individuals are in fact relying on race as a factor above …
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A meta-analysis of the prediction of violence among adults with mental disorders
<p>The study of the risk for violence among persons with mental disorders has received substantial scientific attention over the past few decades; however, many uncertainties and controversies remain due to the wide disparities in the reported results. Using the state-of-the-art perspective of …
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Reframing Sexual Assault and Intimate Partner Violence Through a Maternal and Child Health Lens: Implications for Integrated Prevention, Policy, and Practice
<p>Sexual assault and intimate partner violence remain persistent public health concerns in the United States, with significant consequences for individual health, family stability, and population well-being. Although these forms of violence are frequently addressed through criminal justice and …
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Measuring pathways to youth violence and the possible effects of a sports-based development intervention on youth in South Africa
… from longitudinal-experimental studies of youth violence and intervention in the global North, this study was designed as an ambitious two-site, large-n (n=700), longitudinal (3 waves over 24 months) quasi-experimental panel study to explore pathways to violent behaviour and violence-potential …
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Military Versus Civilian Murder-Suicide Psychological Profiles
… to violent behavior, including suicide, domestic violence, and harm to others, but none have examined military murder-suicide. This study compared military and civilian murder-suicide perpetrators on a number of demographic, psychological, and contextual factors. Military murder-suicide …
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The experience of hearing voices that tell you what to do
… the link between command voices and violence/risk, what motivates compliance with the commands and more recently, how to improve treatment options. Qualitative exploration of what it is like for the individual to have this experience has been neglected. The present study explored the …
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The criminal career profile : a measure of criminal careers
… respectively. Finer groupings based on risk (high, medium, and low), a number of risk measures (Psychopathy Checklist – Revised, Violence Risk Scale, and Violence Risk Scale – Sexual Offender Version), and different types of offenders (i.e. violent, nonviolent, sexual, Dangerous …
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What School Factors Influence Teachers' Perceptions of Safety
… Teachers indicated perceiving that the greatest violence risk was posed by outside intruders and concern for safety was not generally caused by student behavior. Teachers' perceptions of safety were influenced by the presence of a resource officer in their school building, locked exterior doors, …
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Psychopathy, institutional behaviour and motivation to change in adolescent offenders
… was compared with the Structured Assessment of Violence Risk in Youths (SA VRY; Borum, Bartel & Forth, 2003) and the Youth Level of Service Inventory/Case Management Inventory (YLSI/ CMI; Hoge and Andrews, 1994) in relation to institutional misconduct. The SA VRY emerged as the strongest …
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