Strengths-Based Approaches to Violence Risk Assessment and Offender Rehabilitation
The Forensics Interest Group presents:
Strengths-Based Approaches to Violence Risk Assessment and Offender Rehabilitation
June 10, 2024 | 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM ET | 1 CE Credit
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Abstract:
In this presentation, the research literature on strengths-based risk assessment will be reviewed. Strengths-based approaches are grounded in theoretical models such as the Good Lives Model and build on the research literature on resilience and protective factors. The Structured Assessment of Protective Factors against violence risk (SAPROF) offers incremental validity over risk-only assessment instruments. I will also discuss the effects of different strengths-based offender rehabilitation programs. Although still relatively new, these approaches bring more balance to the risk-focused traditions, and offer a gateway towards more human and trauma-focused interventions in offender rehabilitation.
Presenter:
Corine de Ruiter, PhD
Professor of Forensic Psychology, Maastricht University, the Netherlands
Learning Outcomes:
- Have updated knowledge on the incremental validity of strengths-based factors in violence risk assessment
- Can name at least three strengths-based interventions to offender rehabilitation
- Knows which current risk assessment tools provide an (added) assessment of strengths
Pricing
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| Registration Type | Pricing |
| SPA Member Registration | FREE |
| Non-Member Registration (Student) | $39 |
| Non-Member Registration (Early-Career) | $129 |
| Non-Member Registration (Professional) | $199 |
Corine de Ruiter has been professor of Forensic Psychology at Maastricht University since 2006. Previously, she was endowed professor of Forensic Psychology at the University of Amsterdam (1999-2005) and head of the Department of Research at a forensic psychiatric hospital in Utrecht (1995-2002). She is a licensed clinical psychologist and regularly serves as an expert to the court. Her research focuses on the link between mental disorders and violence, including psychopathy and its treatment. She also has a strong interest in the prevention of child abuse and antisocial behavior in children, which led to the development of a risk assessment instrument for child abuse (CAREV2), and to research on child forensic interviewing and parent management training. She has been Associate Editor of the International Journal of Forensic Mental Health (2009-2014), founding Specialty Chief Editor, Frontiers in Psychology/Forensic and Legal Psychology (2017-2022), and Associate Editor of the Journal of Personality Assessment (2018-2023). She is co-author of the Structured Assessment of PROtective Factors for violence risk (SAPROF).
References
Burghart, M., de Ruiter, C., Hynes, S. E., Krishnan, N., Levtova, Y., & Uyar, A. (2023). The Structured Assessment of Protective Factors for Violence Risk (SAPROF): A meta-analysis of its predictive and incremental validity. Psychological Assessment, 35(1), 56–67 https://doi.org/10.1037/pas0001184
de Ruiter, C., & de Vogel, V. (2024). Modifying risk factors, building strengths. In G. M. Davies, A. R. Beech, & M. F. Colloff (Eds.), Forensic psychology: Crime, justice, law, interventions, 4th edition (pp. 691-712). Wiley-Blackwell.
Serie, C.M. B., Van Damme, L., Pleysier, S., de Ruiter, C., & Put, J. (2021). The relationship between primary human needs of the Good Lives Model (GLM) and subjective well-being in adolescents: A multi-level meta-analysis. Aggression and Violent Behavior, 61, 101651. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.avb.2021.101651
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