Rethinking Risk Assessment : The MacArthur Study of Mental Disorder and Violence.

Title:

Author:

Monahan, John.

ISBN:

9780198031741

Personal Author:

Monahan, John.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (208 pages)

Contents:

Contents -- 1. Violence Risk Assessment: The Law and the Science -- 2. Violence Among Patients in the Community -- 3. Testing "Criminological" Risk Factors -- 4. Testing "Clinical" Risk Factors -- 5. Customizing Risk Assessment -- 6. Combining Customized Risk Assessments to Produce the Best Estimate of Risk -- 7. Violence and the Clinician: Assessing and Managing Risk -- Appendix A -- Appendix B -- References -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W.

Abstract:

Winner of the APA's Manfred S. Guttmacher Award, 2001 Legislatures, courts, and the public have come to expect that mental health professionals will protect them from violent acts by persons with mental disorders. Rethinking Risk Assessment: The MacArthur Study of Mental Disorder and Violence tells the story of a pioneering investigation that challenges preconceptions about violence and suggests an innovative approach to predicting its occurrence. The dramatic new findings presented in this long-anticipated volume will change the way clinicians and judges do their work.

Local Note:

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

Subject Term:

Dangerously mentally ill -- United States.

Electronic books. -- local.

MacArthur Violence Risk Assessment Study.

Mentally ill -- Commitment and detention -- United States.

Risk assessment -- United States.

Violence -- United States.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Added Author:

Steadman, Henry J.

Silver, Eric.