Citation

Odeh MS, Zeiss RA, Huss MT. Behav. Sci. Law 2006; 24(2): 147-156.

Affiliation

Creighton University; now a graduate student at the Georgetown Public Policy Institute, Georgetown University, Washington, DC, USA.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2006, John Wiley and Sons)

DOI

10.1002/bsl.672

PMID

16557618

Abstract

Clinical predictions of violence are a necessary part of clinical practice despite extensive literature validating the use of actuarial rather than clinical prediction. The current study examined clinicians' use of risk cues in predictions of violence. Clinicians identified several risk cues as significant in clinical assessments of risk, including a history of assaults, hostility, medication noncompliance, paranoid delusions, presence of psychosis, and family problems. However, further results indicated that clinician-endorsed risk cues lack predictive power in the present sample.

Language: en