Crisis Management & Risk Assessment Flashcards

Which violence risk instrument is a structured professional judgment (SPJ) tool organized into Historical, Clinical, and Risk Management items?

Answer: HCR-20 V3

The HCR-20 V3 uses 20 items across Historical, Clinical, and Risk Management scales and ends in a clinician judgment of risk.

Static-99R is primarily designed to estimate the risk of which outcome?

Answer: Sexual recidivism among adult males convicted of sexual offenses

Static-99R is an actuarial tool for estimating sexual recidivism in adult males with a sexual offense conviction.

When are jail detainees at highest risk of suicide, according to correctional research?

Answer: Within the first 24 to 72 hours after booking

Suicide risk in jails peaks shortly after admission, especially in the first 24 to 72 hours, so intake screening is critical.

A client's age at first offense is best classified as what type of risk factor?

Answer: Static risk factor

Static factors are historical and cannot change through intervention, such as age at first offense.

Which approach is current best practice in place of a 'no-suicide contract'?

Answer: Collaborative safety planning

No-suicide contracts lack empirical support, so collaborative safety plans such as the Stanley-Brown model are recommended.

Under the Tarasoff decisions, a clinician's duty arises primarily when a client does what?

Answer: Communicates a serious threat of violence against a reasonably identifiable victim

Tarasoff established that a clinician may have a duty to protect when a client poses a serious danger to an identifiable person.

In the Risk-Need-Responsivity (RNR) model, the 'risk principle' states that:

Answer: Treatment intensity should match the offender's level of risk

The risk principle holds that higher-risk offenders should receive more intensive services and low-risk offenders minimal services.