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Assessing Future Risk of Youth Violence
Determination of future risk of violence is an important forensic task. It can contribute to decisions about the appropriate level of care or structure. Research has demonstrated repeatedly that clinical judgment about the risk of future violence is little better than chance. Tools to determine this risk affect a youth’s life significantly and should be reliable and valid. Tools developed to date to determine youth risk of future violence, delinquency, and behavior problems include the SAVRY, PCL-YV, YLS-CMI, and the CARE.
The Structured Assessment of Violence Risk in Youth (SAVRY) (Borum, Bartel, & Forth, 2002) is composed of 24 risk items (Historical, Social/ Contextual, and Individual) drawn from existing literature on adolescent development and on aggression in youth. An additional six Protective Factors are also provided. It was once thought that dangerousness was static and not subject to change, however more recently it is viewed as more contextual or dependent on situations. Additionally, the developers of the SAVRY have included dynamic risk factors because personality and behavior traits are not stable in adolescence. The theory underlying these assessments has shifted from a violence prediction model to a more clinical model of risk assessment and behavior management. The task is to determine the nature and degree of risk an individual may pose for certain kinds of behaviors, and under what conditions and contexts.
The 4 Stages of the Counseling Process: What Every Youth Counselor Should Know
There is a natural progression that takes place within the context of the helping relationship. This process enables you and the person you are working with to build a relationship, assess the situation, set goals and come up with a plan to bring about your desired results. This progression is known as the counseling process. There are four stages of the counseling process. They are: developing a relationship, making an informed assessment, establishing mutually agreed upon goals and objectives and developing an implementation plan.
Phase 1. Developing A Relationship
Eight Ways to Prevent Youth Violence
A single approach to preventing youth violence is not sufficient. A youth is affected many things in his/her environment and prevention must address those multiple factors.
Reducing Exposure to Violence. As a society, we are much better at protecting partners from a violent significant other today than 30 years ago.
Can We Stop Our Youth From the Perils of Drug Abuse?
Drug Abuse Warning Network, which is a Public Health Surveillance System, indicates that Emergency Department episodes in drug-abuse have more than doubled in recent years according to surveys taken from 21 Metropolitan Cities in U.S. However, amongst youth ages 12 to 17, drug-related episodes have alarmingly quadrupled! Who is to blame? Is your child’s destiny a product of chance or a culmination of parental care?
Although some of us may not hear or witness the alarming increase in the intake of drugs, the dangerous and drastic effects are self-evident. Intense suffering and agonizing deaths, suicides, murders and thefts, which are on the increase in public places like the Malls or School Campuses, primarily stem from habitual drug addiction. Habitual drug-takers’ first and last thought is: how to get the next dose. The drug-taker lives in constant dread of suffering should he or she fail to secure it. This haunting dread drives the drug-taker to use any means no matter how sinister or violent – to attain this goal.
