Violence Risk Assessment for Youth Using the SAVRY
15 Hours | 15 CEs
This on-demand professional training program on Violence Risk Assessment for Youth Using the SAVRY is presented by Gina Vincent, PhD and Ivan Kruh, PhD, in partnership with the National Youth Screening & Assessment Partners (NYSAP).
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 program includes a brief overview of research on adolescent offending, developmental issues related to risk, and known dynamic and static risk factors. This is 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 program is 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 program also covers the risk-need-responsivity framework and developing clinical formulations for treatment/intervention recommendations.
This program is 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.
Requirements & Materials
There are no prerequisites for this training program. Participants must purchase a copy of the manual and worksheets from the publisher prior to enrolling in the training. This will not be provided by CONCEPT.
PAR Purchase link: Manual & Worksheets
Intended Audience
This on-demand professional training program is intended for mental health and other allied professionals
Experience Level
This on-demand professional training program is appropriate for beginner, intermediate, and advanced level clinicians.
CE / CPD Credit
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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
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...
Curriculum
1. Developmental Issues and Risk Indicators
2. Introduction to the SAVRY
3. Completing and Rating the SAVRY Items
4. Historical Risk Factors (SAVRY Items 1-10)
5. Sebastian Case Study - Part 1
6. Social/Contextual Risk Factors (SAVRY Items 11-16)
7. Sebastian Case Study - Part 2
8. Individual/Clinical Risk Factors (SAVRY Items 17-24)
9. Sebastian Case Study - Part 3
10. Protective Factors and Additional Considerations
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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.
