Citation

Bedford A, Lukic G, Tibbles J. Clin. Psychol. Psychother. 2011; 18(3): 244-249.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2011, John Wiley and Sons)

DOI

10.1002/cpp.714

PMID

20665598

Abstract

While Whewell and Bonanno reported significant relationships between therapists' ratings of risk and patients' ratings of categorized Clinical Outcome in Routine Evaluation-Outcome Measures (CORE-OM) risk items, Rowsell and Stennett-Cox found that only two non-risk items of the total 34 CORE-OM items correlated significantly with reported risk behaviours. The current study of 870 patients examined the intercorrelations of the CORE-OM item matrix, including the 28 non-risk items, and their correlations with the Risk domain items. Additionally, CORE-Assessment clinicians' risk ratings were compared with the patients' risk self-ratings. The results differed from the findings of Rowsell and Stennett-Cox and provided validatory evidence supplementing that of Whewell and Bonanno. The Harm to Self items appeared to be of particular behavioural significance.

Language: en

Keywords

Humans; Adult; Female; Male; Statistics, Nonparametric; Violence; Risk Assessment; Self-Injurious Behavior; United Kingdom; Suicide Prevention; Reproducibility of Results; Dangerous Behavior; Forensic Psychiatry; Psychological Tests; Mental Disorders; Diagnostic Self Evaluation