Assessing the Risk of Inpatient Violence in Autism Spectrum Disorder

Autor: Alessandra, Girardi, Ella, Hancock-Johnson, Carlo, Thomas, Paul M, Wallang
Rok vydání: 2019
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Zdroj: The journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law. 47(4)
ISSN: 1943-3662
Popis: The Historical Clinical and Risk Management scale (HCR-20) is a structured clinical judgment tool used to assess risk of violence in secure settings. But the scale does not account for difficulties typical of patients with autism spectrum disorder, which are thought to contribute to their engagement in violent behaviors. The present study is a preliminary investigation of the association between risk assessment and physical and verbal violence in patients with autism spectrum disorder in a secure psychiatric hospital. Scores from the third version of HCR-20 (HCR-20
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