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2005.07.17.

MSc Ed Hilterman and Dr Anders Tengstrom
The Assessment of youth's anti-sociality and the perception of risk and protective factors by clinicians

The workshop will concentrate on the assessment of risk of juvenile antisocial and violent behaviour. We will start with an overall explanation of the manual for the Structured Assessment of Violence Risk in Youth (SAVRY) and the role of psychopathy in the assessment of violence risk in youth.

After the first exploration the perception and application of risk- and protective factors by clinicians working with juvenile delinquents will be the theme in the first part of this workshop. What are the risk factors perceived as most relevant by clinicians and do they perceive different factors for different types of juvenile delinquents? We will also examine the perception of the risk and protective factors present in the SAVRY and of the perception of protective factors more in general. The identification of possible promising risk- or protective factors by clinicians will be discussed.
After the perception of risk and protective factors we will look into the application of risk factors in risk assessment by the same clinicians and see or there are differences between the perception and the application of risk- and protective factors.

The second part of the workshop is focused on presenting a study where SAVRY was used to predict violence among a group of substance abusing adolescents. An in depth analysis of the predictive validity of the SAVRY and the different subscales will be presented. Comparisons with other risk assessment tools e.g. the psychopathy checklist will also be conducted. Detailed results and clinical consequences of assessing violence risk among youth will be presented and discussed.