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Psychology 545 3-1 Discussion: Violence Risk Assessment In your initial posts to your peers, discuss the different factors that are important in violence risk assessments. Discuss static, dynamic, and protective factors, and think about how utilizing them may or may not improve the accuracy of the risk assessment. Also, explain the weaknesses of risk assessment and how the factors may play into the weaknesses. Risk factors are individual characteristics believed to varying degrees to be associated with or predictive of antisocial behavior. Dynamic risk factors are ones that keeping changing over time and situation. One example would be someone who has substance abuse and negative attitudes toward women have potential for change. Stati risk factors are historical that have been demonstrated to relate to offending potential. Dynamic factors, while SPJ encourages evaluators to consider them. “The SPJ model helps clinicians decide how often to reevaluate risk factors and how to link risk assessment to risk management” (K.S. Douglass et al., 2014, pg. 397). Static risk instruments are only moderately accurate in the prediction of future violence. Unlike static risk factors, dynamic risk factors are defined by their ability to change throughout the life courses. Some examples of these factors are unemployment, and peer group influences. Understanding change in dynamic risk factors is important for assessing the effectiveness of intervention programs along with pinpointing specific individual casual mechanisms. Static risk instruments might be useful for grouping individuals by risk level, and will give clinicians more of an idea of the required intensity of the intervention necessary to prevent future offending. Protective factors include a person’s supports system, resilience, and coping mechanisms, motivation, friends, and environment. Protective factors, are also variables along with factors that can lower the probability of violence. Also, protective factors can benefit in risk assessment due to the fact it can have a big impact on reducing the impact of risk. “The words risk and potential communicate the important point that in their evaluation, psychologists are providing courts and other agencies with a probability statement that a given individual will behave in an inappropriate manner. The probability assessment may be based on

2 clinical judgement or on certain “predictor variables” that are the individual’s background” (Bartol, 2021). References: Bartol, C.R., & Bartol, A.M. (2021) Introduction to Forensic Psychology (6 th ed) Sage Publications, Inc (U.S.) Improving risk management for violence in mental health services: a multimethod approach. Development of a dynamic risk assessment for violence. National Library of Medicine, https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK3964581

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