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Short-Term Assessment of Risk and Treatability: Adolescent Version (START-AV)

Presented By Jodi Viljoen, PhD | Keith Cruise, PhD
Jodi Viljoen, PhD Keith Cruise, PhD

20 hours | 20 CEs

This on-demand professional training program on Short-Term Assessment of Risk and Treatability: Adolescent Version (START-AV) is presented by Jodi Viljoen, PhD and Keith Cruise, PhD. This badge-earning program can be shared digitally on platforms like LinkedIn or your resume and counts towards a certificate. Enroll in this program to earn credit towards Juvenile Forensic Assessment Certificate and share your new digital credentials with prospective employers and colleagues.

The START: AV is a risk assessment guide for adolescents. Rather than focusing on a single outcome (e.g., violence), the START: AV provides an integrative assessment of adolescents’ risks for harm to others and rules violations and harm to the adolescent. Whereas many tools focus primarily on risk factors, START: AV places a large emphasis on strengths in addition to vulnerabilities.

In addition, given that adolescence is a period of enormous change, the START: AV facilitates a dynamic approach by orienting professionals to strengths and vulnerabilities that are potentially modifiable.

This program focuses on providing participants with the skills needed to use the START: AV to assess strengths, vulnerabilities, and risks. In addition, the program introduces participants to the use of START: AV in intervention planning. Throughout the program, there is a focus on working through case examples.

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 an integrative assessment of adolescents’ risks for harm to others

Describe the assessment of adolescents’ risk rule violations

Describe the assessment of adolescents’ risks of harm to the adolescent

Describe the START-AV in intervention-planning

Describe the role of static and dynamic strength risk factors in risk assessment

Describe the role of static and dynamic strength risk factors in risk management

Describe the strengths in client management and safety planning

Describe the vulnerabilities in client management and safety planning

Describe how to administer START assessments

Describe how to interpret START assessments

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Presented By

Jodi Viljoen, PhD

Dr. Jodi Viljoen, R. Psyc. is an Associate Professor of Clinical Psychology at Simon Fraser University, and an Associate Director of the Institute for the Reduction of Youth Violence. She is an author of the Short-Term Assessment of Risk and Treatability (START: AV) and a risk reduction guide called...

Presented By

Keith Cruise, PhD

Dr. Keith Cruise is an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology and Adjunct Professor of Law at Fordham University. Dr. Cruise conducts research on the clinical-forensic assessment of youth within the juvenile justice system. Various research projects have focused on developing and valida...

Curriculum

1. Introduction

2. Overview of the START-AV

3. Sebastian Items 1-6

4. Sebastian Items 7-10

5. Sebastian Items 13-14

6. Sebastian Items 15-20

7. START-AV Outcomes

8. Sebastian History and Future Risks

9. Case Example: Anna

10. Anna Items

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