SAVRY

Structured Assessment of Violence Risk in Youth

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Purpose

Assesses the risk of violence

Authors

Randy Borum, PsyD, Patrick Bartel, PhD, and Adelle Forth, PhD

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Assess Whether Your Adolescent Clients Are At Risk of Violence

The SAVRY rating form is designed to help professionals evaluate and determine a juvenile’s risk for violent behavior. Clinicians use various sources of information, such as parent interviews, police records, and school reports, to complete the 24 risk and 6 protective factor items on the form. The results serve as a guide for making informed decisions during risk assessments and aid in developing interventions to manage and reduce violence risk in youth.

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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
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Age Range 12 years to 18 years
Admin Time 10-15 minutes
Qualification Level S

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Test structure

  • Each risk item has a three-level rating structure with specific rating guidelines.
  • Six protective factor items are rated as either present or absent.