Psychology 2032A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Risk Assessment, Decision Points, Child Protection

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2032A/B
• Professor: Mc Keown

Document Summary

Some people may grow out of risk, risk is more fluid: adolescent characteristics change as one becomes older. Risk assessments: civil settings: civil commitment, hospitalized involuntarily for a mental illnesses or poses themselves as dangerous. In canada, only a psychiatrist can commit someone to a hospital: child protection, cas, temporarily remove child from home or to terminate parental rights. Immigration laws: reasonable grounds to believe they would pose a risk. Risk assessments: criminal settings: risk assessments conducted at major decision points, pretrial, denied bail, youth to be receiving adult criminal sanctions, sentencing. In civil rights case, 98 are predicted to reoffend, but only 7 did. Steve: is very shy and withdrawn, little interest in people or in the world of reality, meek and tidy loves detail, will be a librarian or farmer: this is a 50/50. Conjunction fallacy: probability of two events occurring together in "conjunction" is always less than or equal to the probability of either one occurring alone.