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Development of a Virtual Reality Assessment of Everyday Living Skills
Published on: April 23, 2014
[COMSKILLS: assessing community living skills in offender groups]
Thomas Ross1, Michael Hintersdorf, Sylvia Hufnagel
1Forensische Psychotherapie, Universitätsklinikum Ulm. ross@sip.medizin.uni-ulm.de
Objective:
An international network study involving parallel, complementary interventions in three EU countries and an associate country (Germany, United Kingdom, The Netherlands and Norway) is reported. The aim is to develop a unified approach to the assessment of social risk and related behaviours in offender groups.
Method:
The Behavioural Status Index (BEST-Index) and a set of cross-validating instruments (PCL-R, HCR-20; SCL-90-R; BDHI-D) were applied to a sample of n = 231 mentally ill offenders.
Results:
Selected results using a sub-sample of n = 89 German offenders are reported and discussed.
Conclusions:
The BEST-Index shows convergent validity with respect to a social risk criterion and it helps to determine an objective data base for the improvement of carer assessments, related care planning, and delivery.
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