Webster / Haque / Hucker Violence Risk - Assessment and Management

Advances Through Structured Professional Judgement and Sequential Redirections
2. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-1-118-48546-0
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 256 Seiten, E-Book

This expanded and updated new edition reflects the growing importance of the structured professional judgement approach to violence risk assessment and management. It offers comprehensive guidance on decision-making in cases where future violence is a potential issue.
* Includes discussion of interventions based on newly developed instruments
* Covers policy standards developed since the publication of the first edition
* Interdisciplinary perspective facilitates collaboration between professionals
* Includes contributions from P.Randolf Kropp, R. Karl Hanson, Mary-Lou Martin, Alec Buchanan and John Monahan

Autoren/Hrsg.

Webster, Christopher D.

Haque, Quazi

Hucker, Stephen J.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Tribute Dr. F.A.S. Jenson vi
List of Figures vii
List of Tables viii
List of Boxes ix
About the Authors x
Foreword Alec Buchanan xii
Preface to the Second Edition xviii
Acknowledgements xxi
1 Decision Points 1
2 Points of View 8
3 Predictions and Errors 15
4 Developmental Trajectories 26
5 Symptomologies 33
6 Personality Disorders 47
7 Substance Abuse 55
8 Factors: Risk and Protective, Single, Multiple, and Interacting 61
9 SPJ Guides 72
10 Competitions 88
11 Planning 92
12 Transitions Mary-Lou Martin 98
13 Sequential Redirections 106
14 Implementations 116
15 Teaching and Researching SPJ Guides 123
16 Spousal Assaulters: Risk Assessment and Management P. Randall Kropp 138
17 Sex Offenders R. Karl Hanson 148
18 Teams 159
19 Communications 163
20 Getting it Wrong, Getting it Right (Mostly) 170
Questions 187
Afterword John Monahan, PhD 195
References 200
Index 224

Über Autor(innen)

Christopher D. Webster is Professor Emeritus ofPsychiatry at the University of Toronto, Canada, as well asProfessor Emeritus of Psychology at Simon Fraser University. AFellow of the Canadian Psychological Association, the AmericanPsychological Association and the Royal Society of Canada, hispublications include the first edition of this volume(Wiley-Blackwell, 2007), and Essential Writings in RiskAssessment and Management (2007), which he co-edited.
Quazi Haque is Executive Medical Director forPartnerships in Care, one of the largest providers of mental healthservices in the UK. A Fellow of the UK Royal College ofPsychiatrists and former lecturer at the Institute ofPsychiatry's Home Office Teaching Unit, he collaborated withChristopher Webster in developing a structured professionaljudgement training programme at the Institute of Psychiatry atKings College London.
Stephen J. Hucker is Professor of Psychiatry at theUniversity of Toronto, Canada. A specialist in forensic psychiatry,he is a former head of the forensic programs at Toronto'sClarke Institute of Psychiatry and has lectured widely on forensicpsychiatry both to scientific and professional audiences. Hemaintains a private practice and is frequently called as an expertwitness in legal cases.