Cues they use: clinicians' endorsement of risk cues in predictions of dangerousness.
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.
Creighton University; now a graduate student at the Georgetown Public Policy Institute, Georgetown University, Washington, DC, USA.
Michael S
MS
Odeh
Robert A
RA
Zeiss
Matthew T
MT
Huss
D003417:Criminal Psychology / Q000379:methods*; D003463:Cues; D003617:Dangerous Behavior; D005260:Female; D005555:Forensic Psychiatry / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D018570:Risk Assessment; D014754:Violence / Q000523:psychology*