What Every Clinician Should Know About Violence Risk Assessment Home Study

What Every Clinician Should Know About Violence Risk Assessment Home Study (3 CE's) is organized by TZK Seminars.

Expires: 03/01/2022

Credits:
This course has been approved for a maximum of  3CEs

Description:
The ability to predict  future violent behavior has long been an issue for mental health professionals.  Initially it was merely assumed that we could make such predictions accurately based on our clinical skills alone.  Many decisions in the judicial system hinge on an accurate assessment of violence, such as  bond, probation, and parole decisions, committment to and release from psychiatric facilities, and even whether or not a defendant should be sentenced to death.

Recent research has demonstrated however that such predictions are not as accurate as once assumed and that the methodology used was sadly lacking in  validity.   A tremendous amount of research has gone into risk assessment for future  violence ; still,,  the accuracy remains in question even to this day; nevertheless, judicial decisions are continually made which ignore our limited ability to assess violent behavior.

This webinar will explore  the factors necessary to do competent work in this area and demonstrate the ways that risk assessment can become more precise.

Learning Objectives:
At the end of this seminar, participants will be able to:
• Identify the three generations of risk assessment research
• State the advantages and disadvantages of the actuarial approach
• Identify how the structured Professional Judgment may be used in Risk Assessment
• Name the major assessment instruments for risk assessment
• ame the legal decisions in which courts have accepted and rejected risk assessment research