Evaluation of a model of violence risk assessment among forensic psychiatric patients

Psychiatric Services

Volumn 54, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 1372-1379

  Douglas, Kevin S ^a,b   Ogloff, James R P ^c,d   Hart, Stephen D ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

^b MID SWEDEN UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d VICTORIAN INSTITUTE OF FORENSIC MENTAL HEALTH   (Australia)

^e SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; FORENSIC PSYCHIATRY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; MENTAL PATIENT; MODEL; RATING SCALE; RELIABILITY; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; VALIDATION PROCESS; VIOLENCE;

ACTUARIAL ANALYSIS; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTISOCIAL PERSONALITY DISORDER; BRITISH COLUMBIA; CHILD; COMMITMENT OF MENTALLY ILL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INSANITY DEFENSE; MALE; MODELS, STATISTICAL; OBSERVER VARIATION; PATIENT DISCHARGE; PERSONALITY ASSESSMENT; PRISONERS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PSYCHOMETRICS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RISK ASSESSMENT; STATISTICS; VIOLENCE;

EID: 0141446173     PISSN: 10752730     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1176/appi.ps.54.10.1372     Document Type: Article

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