Re-visioning risk assessment for human service decision making

Children and Youth Services Review

Volumn 26, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 561-576

  Schwalbe, Craig ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

Naturalistic decision making; Risk assessment; Statistical decision making; Structured decision making

Indexed keywords

EID: 2942525123     PISSN: 01907409     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.childyouth.2004.02.011     Document Type: Article

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