SAVRY™

Features and benefits

• Based on the structured professional judgment (SPJ) model or guided clinical assessment, the SAVRY helps you structure an assessment so that important factors will be emphasized when you formulate a final professional judgment about a youth’s level of risk.
• Addresses the primary domains of known risk and protective factors and provides clear operational definitions. Risk and protective factors are based on their relationship to adolescents—not to children or adults.
• Composed of 24 items in three risk domains (Historical Risk Factors, Social/Contextual Risk Factors, and Individual/Clinical Factors), drawn from existing research and the professional literature on adolescent development as well as on violence and aggression in youth.
• Not designed to be a formal test or scale, there are no assigned numerical values or specified cutoff scores.
• Both reactive and proactive aggression—aggression subtypes that are extensively theoretically supported—are emphasized.
• Items have direct implications for treatment, including the consideration of dynamic factors that can be useful targets for intervention in risk reduction.
• With its emphasis on dynamic factors, the SAVRY is useful in intervention planning and ongoing progress monitoring. This may include formulating clinical treatment plans, conditions of community supervision, or release/discharge planning.
• As the qualification level is “S,” those with a degree, certificate, or license to practice in a healthcare profession are eligible to administer.
  • Psychologists
  • Psychiatrists
  • Juvenile probation officers
  • Mental health counselors
  • Social workers