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Beyond Actuarial Assessment to Informed Risk Management (2003) — Violence stems from an interaction among the potential attacker, past stressful events, and current situation PPT for download
Child Abuse & Disability: A Training and Intervention Project (2006) — MATERIALS LIST DOC for download
Dietary Trans Fats Linked to Aggression (2012) — for more medical news see http://www.medscape.com/psychiatry
Disability and Abuse Project — To identify ways to reduce the risk of abuse, to promote healing for victims, and to seek justice for those who have been victimized
General Instruments for Risk Assessment — The identification of those who may be at increased risk of exhibiting violence is one of the highest-profile tasks of mental health professionals. Risk assessment is a rapidly developing field, and a number of instruments have been proposed for facilitating this task.
Risk Assessment and Management Issues: Planning for Community Transitions 2006 Blackman, D.H.
The MacArthur Community Violence Study — Violence Risk Assessment Study (Pittsburgh)
The MacArthur Violence Risk Assessment Study — A study funded by the National Institute of Mental Health employed the public-assess data from the MacArthur Violence Risk Assessment Study to develop violence risk assessment software