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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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