LIVE: Violence Risk Assessment for Youth Using the SAVRY
January 14, 2025 - January 15, 2025 | 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM Eastern
January 14, 2025 - January 15, 2025
9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Eastern
16 Hours | 14 CEs
$650 Registration | $600 Early Registration (through January 7th) | Live Virtual Training via Zoom
Gina Vincent, PhD and Ivan Kruh, PhD present a live virtual professional training program on Violence Risk Assessment for Youth Using the SAVRY in partnership with The National Youth Screening & Assessment Partners (NYSAP).
This is a two-day training on the use of the Structured Assessment of Violence Risk for Youth (SAVRY). The SAVRY Version 2 (Borum, Bartel, & Forth, 2006) assesses risk for violence/aggression, non-violent reoffending, residential aggression, and the dynamic risk and protective factors associated with these acts among adolescents. The SAVRY is a well-validated risk assessment instrument for violence, with evidence of its validity for both girls and boys and across several racial/ethnic groups.
The training session will include a brief overview of research on adolescent offending, developmental issues related to risk, and known dynamic and static risk factors. This will be followed by a discussion of the different approaches to decision-making; namely, unstructured clinical judgment, actuarial, and structured professional judgment (SPJ).
The bulk of the training will be spent teaching participants how to collect data needed to use the SAVRY, how to rate its items, and how to make final determinations of one’s level of risk. The training also covers the risk-need-responsivity framework and developing clinical formulations for treatment/intervention recommendations.
This training will be designed for clinicians practicing in areas in which assessing a youth’s violence risk or risk for general offending is relevant. In most cases, this will be clinicians who conduct assessments of youth involved in the legal system, in either forensic mental health contexts (i.e., court-based evaluations) or other juvenile justice contexts (e.g., juvenile correctional settings). There may be traditional clinical contexts for which these skills may also be relevant, such as residential treatment settings or psychiatric hospitals.
Intended Audience
This live program is intended for mental health and other allied professionals.
Experience Level
This live program is appropriate for beginner, intermediate, and advanced level clinicians.
CE / CPD Credit
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Presented By
Ivan Kruh, PhD
Ivan Kruh received his PhD in Clinical Psychology with a concentration in Psychology & Law from the University of Alabama in 1998 and subsequently completed fellowship training in forensic psychology through the University of Washington. For ten years, he was the Director of Juvenile Forensic Me...
Presented By
Gina Vincent, PhD
Gina Vincent is a Professor and Co-Director of the Law & Psychiatry Program at UMass Chan Medical School and a faculty of the Implementation Science & Practice Advances Research Center (iSPARC). She has received funding from NIMH, NIDA, NIJ, the MacArthur Foundation, and OJJDP for studies re...
Learning Objectives
Upon completion of this program you will be able to:
Describe the Structured Assessment of Violence Risk for Youth (SAVRY)
Describe the concept of structured professional judgment in relation to risk assessments
Describe tips for implementing a risk instrument to ensure success
Describe approaches to decision-making, namely, unstructured clinical judgment, actuarial, and structured professional judgment (SPJ)
Describe the risk-need-responsivity framework
Demonstrate the SAVRY to identify risk-related service needs
Demonstrate the SAVRY through practice case scoring
Describe developing clinical formulations for treatment/intervention recommendations
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Cancellation Policy
Have a sudden change of plans and are unable to attend live? No worries; you will be given access to the on-demand version of the program once available. Please note if you attend live, no access to the recording will be given.
Event Conduct
Professional conduct is expected during our live programs. Our goal is to make our events as interactive as possible for all participants. We reserve the right to remove any participants who are disruptive, act unprofessionally, or who we are unable to verify their purchase.
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Program Partner
National Youth Screening & Assessment Partners (NYSAP)
The National Youth Screening & Assessment Partners (NYSAP) is a technical assistance and research group dedicated to helping juvenile justice and related programs nationwide. Since 2000, NYSAP has assisted juvenile justice systems to make decisions about adolescents that are consistent with youths’ health and positive development and with the community’s interests by helping systems use reliable, evidence-based methods for screening and assessment. We provide training, technical assistance, and quality implementation services to agencies and programs in the areas of risk screening and risk-needs assessment, behavioral health screening, and competence to stand trial evaluations. NYSAP professionals have played a key role for 25 years in research on juveniles’ competence to stand trial and in developing juvenile competence standards for forensic clinical practice, law, and policy. In response to the growing demand for juvenile competence evaluations nationally, we provide consultation to assist agencies in developing or refining their juvenile competence service delivery system, as well as creating and conducting quality assurance procedures. We train clinicians and juvenile justice stakeholders (e.g., judges, attorneys, and community partners) in practice standards for conducting high-quality juvenile competence evaluations.
