Abstract
Clinical predictions of violence are a necessary part of clinical practice despite extensive literature validating the use of actuarial rather than clinical prediction. The current study examined clinicians' use of risk cues in predictions of violence. Clinicians identified several risk cues as significant in clinical assessments of risk, including a history of assaults, hostility, medication noncompliance, paranoid delusions, presence of psychosis, and family problems. However, further results indicated that clinician-endorsed risk cues lack predictive power in the present sample.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 147-156 |
Number of pages | 10 |
Journal | Behavioral Sciences and the Law |
Volume | 24 |
Issue number | 2 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - May 10 2006 |
All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- Clinical Psychology
- Psychiatry and Mental health
- Law