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Calibrating violence risk assessments for uncertainty.

Michael H Connors^1,2,3, Matthew M Large²

¹Centre for Healthy Brain Ageing, University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.

General Psychiatry

|May 5, 2023

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Assessing individual patient violence risk remains challenging. While structured methods improve group predictions, accurately predicting individual outcomes and absolute risk is limited, requiring careful clinical and legal consideration.

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Area of Science:

Forensic Psychiatry
Clinical Psychology
Risk Assessment

Background:

Mental health clinicians assess patient violence risk using varied methods.
Approaches range from unstructured clinical judgment to structured scoring and algorithms.
Risk assessment typically results in categorization and probability estimates of future violence.

Purpose of the Study:

To review methods for assessing violence risk.
To evaluate the empirical findings on the predictive validity of these methods.
To discuss clinical applications and conceptual challenges in violence risk assessment.

Main Methods:

Review of existing literature on violence risk assessment tools and predictive validity.
Analysis of research focusing on the accuracy of risk prediction methods.
Examination of statistical limitations, including calibration and discrimination.

Main Results:

Structured methods show improvements in classifying risk at a group level.
Predictive validity for individual patient outcomes remains contested.
Limitations exist in calibration (absolute risk accuracy) compared to discrimination (group separation).

Conclusions:

Significant limitations persist in accurately assessing individual violence risk.
Challenges include applying group statistics to individuals and distinguishing risk from uncertainty.
Careful consideration of these limitations is crucial in clinical and legal contexts.