Individualizing risk assessment: Balancing idiographic and nomothetic data

Journal of Forensic Psychology Practice

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 360-371

  Dematteo, David ^a   Batastini, Ashley ^a   Foster, Elizabeth ^a   Hunt, Elizabeth ^a  

^a DREXEL UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Forensic mental health assessments; Idiographic; Nomothetic; Risk assessment

Indexed keywords

ACADEMIC FAILURE; ACCURACY; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; AWARENESS; CASE STUDY; CHECKLIST; CIVIL RIGHTS; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT TOOL; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; COMMUNITY; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; CONSENSUS; CRIMINAL LAW; DATA COLLECTION METHOD; DEMOGRAPHY; ETHICAL DECISION MAKING; FORENSIC PSYCHIATRY; FUNCTIONAL STATUS; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; INDIVIDUALIZATION; INTEGRATION; INTELLIGENCE TEST; MEASUREMENT ERROR; MENTAL DISEASE; MOTHER CHILD RELATION; PEER PRESSURE; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PREDICTIVE VALIDITY; PREVALENCE; PRISON; PSYCHOMETRY; PSYCHOPATHY; RECIDIVISM; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL CRIME; SOCIOLOGY; SPORT; SUBSTANCE ABUSE; VIOLENCE;

EID: 77955078353     PISSN: 15228932     EISSN: 15229092     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15228932.2010.481244     Document Type: Article

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