PSYC 379 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Personality Disorder, Executive Functions
8 Jun 2017
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Week 3-1: risk factors for adult violence and offending. Violence the actual, attempted, or threatened physical injury of another person that is deliberate and non-consensual. Andrews, bonta, & hoge (1990: risk selecting and identifying who should be offered more intensive rehabilitative services. Number of risk factors: needs what are the most important areas to address to reduce criminal behaviour. Types of risk factors: responsivity identify characteristics to match to: Static: also called historical factors, key feature: unchangeable, although can potentially target secondary outcomes. Example if someone has a very traumatic past, you cannot undue the event but instead target other factors such as treating posttraumatic stress disorder: important for prediction of risk only. 2: important for risk prediction, violence prevention, risk management and for identifying treatment targets. Stable risk factors important for treatment planning and intervention. Acute risk factors important for imminent risk and immediately needed intervention. Big four + moderate four = central eight.
