ATAP CTM REVIEW TIPS QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
SET A+
✔✔Classification of Violence Risk (COVR) - ✔✔Developed with the goal of offering
clinicians a structured tool to assist in their estimation of the risk of violence to others
posed by an individual with a mental disorder.
Interactive Software Program, 3 stages, Derived from the MacArthur Violence Risk
Assessment Study.
✔✔STATIC-99R - ✔✔An actuarial assessment tool for use with adult male sex
offenders (18+) at the time of release from their most recent sexually motivated offence.
Scores DO NOT indicate perpetual risk.
✔✔Violence Risk Appraisal Guide (VRAG) - ✔✔An actuarial risk assessment instrument
that assesses the risk of violent recidivism among men charged with criminal violence.
Was developed to assess mentally disordered and normal male offenders convicted of
violent offenses and have been validated by such offenders.
✔✔Sex Offender Risk Appraisal Guide (SORAG) - ✔✔An actuarial tool that assesses
violence and sexual violence among male offenders
✔✔Violence Risk Appraisal Guide -Revised (VRAG-R) - ✔✔Developed in order to
provide a single tool that was easier to score and validated for use with violent or sexual
offenders.
✔✔Ontario Domestic Assault Risk Assessment (ODARA) - ✔✔13 Item actuarial
instrument designed to assess the risk of violent recidivism against female domestic
partners among men with a police report of such violence.
✔✔Domestic Violence Risk Appraisal Guide (DVRAG) - ✔✔14 Item actuarial instrument
that assesses a domestic assaulters risk of violent recidivism against his partner among
men with a police record of such violence. Comprises ODARA and PCL-R score.
,✔✔Level of Service Instruments - ✔✔Began in the late 1970s.
Seek to standardize and render transparent the information that guided the
discretionary decisions of correctional professionals and make that information as a
matter of record; and develop the capacity of professionals to assess risk of criminal
recidivism, and identify dynamic risk factors.
✔✔Youth Level of Service/Case Management Inventory (YLS/CMI) - ✔✔-Designed to
assist the professional in evaluating risk and needs in youthful offenders (12-18).
-Considered an actuarial risk/need assessment tool based in empirically derived content
and yields quantitative estimates of risk and needs levels.
-Has 5 parts.
✔✔EARL B/G - ✔✔Early Assessment Risk List for Boys or Girls
✔✔HCR-20v3 (Historical-Clinical-Risk Management-20, Version 3) - ✔✔Defines
violence as actual, attempted or threatened inflictions of bodily harm to another person.
✔✔J-SOAP - ✔✔Juvenile Sex Offender Assessment Protocol.
SPJ Developed in Philidelphia in 1994-1995
✔✔Assessment - ✔✔The process of gathering information for use in making decisions.
✔✔Management - ✔✔The process of acting to gain or maintain control of situations.
✔✔Threat Assessment - ✔✔The process of gathering information to understand the
threat of violence posed by a person.
✔✔Threat Management - ✔✔The process of developing and executing plans to mitigate
the threat of violence posed by a person.
✔✔Affective Violence - ✔✔Proceeded by an autonomic arousal and is caused by a
reaction to a perceived threat accompanied by intense feelings of anger and/or fear.
It is largely a defensive form of violence and its evolutionary basis in self protection.
✔✔SVR 20 (Sexual violence risk scale) - ✔✔Reflects the opinions and
recommendations of the author, rather than the official position or policy of any agency,
organization, or association.
Not practice standards as they are no binding on and dont restrict the practice of any
professional groups.
✔✔Short Term Assessment of Risk and Treatability (START) - ✔✔-Intended to assist
mental health professionals in providing comprehensive care plans to address the
,needs of individuals with complex needs while meeting the legal and ethical
responsibilities of evaluating and preventing risk to patients, staff and the community.
-First SPJ measure to equitably consider individuals strengths and vulnerabilities.
✔✔The Spousal Assault Risk Assessment Guide (SARA) - ✔✔-Developed in the early
90's
-SPJ guidelines for the assessment and management of risk for Intimate partner
violence (IPV).
✔✔The Structured Assessment for Protective Factors of Violence Risk (SAPROF) -
✔✔-SPJ checklist of the assessment of protective factors for violence risk.
-Only SPJ Tool that focuses solely on protective factors.
✔✔SAVRY (Structured Assessment of Violence Risk in Youth) - ✔✔SPJ Tool for
assessing violence risk in adolescents (12-18).
✔✔RAGE-V - ✔✔-Risk Assessment Guidelines for Violence
-Created over 4 years by a Multi-disciplinary team. Released in 2006. Endorsed by
ATAP.
✔✔Buffers - ✔✔Also known as protective factors, such as adequate coping responses.
✔✔predictive validity - ✔✔The degree that a tool can differentiate the item being tested
from the part of the sample that does not contain that item or outcome.
✔✔Administrative Action - ✔✔A threat management intervention involving the use of
disciplinary action within an organization or structure to manage problem individuals
(e.g., firing, withholding services, suspension, barring from a particular location or
activity; Calhoun & Weston, 2009).
✔✔Affective Violence - ✔✔Sometimes called impulsive, emotional or reactive violence,
is an unplanned act of violence that occurs is response to a perceived threat in the
imminent environment. (Meloy 2006)
✔✔Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) - ✔✔Legislation passed in 1990 that prohibits
discrimination against people with disabilities. Under this Act, discrimination against a
disabled person is illegal in employment, transportation, public accommodations,
communications and government activities.
✔✔Anchors - ✔✔Factors that provide stability, in Threat Assessment, anchors could be
used to provide support or stability to a subject who is struggling or represent reasons
that an individual would not engage in targeted violence. (de Becker 1997)
, ✔✔Approach Behavior - ✔✔Refers to the type, frequency and intensity of the subjects
attempts to be physically proximal (close) to the target. Includes both successful and
unsuccessful attempts.
✔✔Attack - ✔✔Carrying out (or attempting to carry out) the intended violence against
the target. (Calhoun & Weston 2003)
✔✔Attack Related Behaviors - ✔✔Specific behaviors that are needed in order to launch
a physical assault on a target - These behaviors are displayed as steps on the pathway
to violence (Calhoun & Weston, 2009).
✔✔behavioral indicators - ✔✔An observable action that provides evidence of an
underlying element that may be relevant to a Threat Assessment and management
case. For example, the subject's actions may lead the assessor to believe the subject
has a mental health disorder that influences the level of threat posed by that individual.
(Bulling, et al 2008)
✔✔Behavioral Threat Assessment - ✔✔Threat Assessment orientated based on the
idea that the subject will exhibit identifiable behaviors indicating the intent to commit an
act of targeted violence. (Calhoun & Weston 2003)
✔✔Behaviors of Concern - ✔✔Observable, identifiable behaviors that an individual of
concern exhibits while he or she is progressing on the pathway to violence. (Calhoun &
Weston 2003)
✔✔Black Swan Events - ✔✔An event that is rare, predictable only in retrospect, with
extreme impacts. (Meloy, 2011, Talib 2007)
✔✔breach - ✔✔In Threat Assessment, this commonly refers to a situation where usual
security measures have been circumvented. (Calhoun & Weston 2003)
✔✔Case Dynamics - ✔✔The continuous interaction between what is known and
unknown in a particular case, and the evolving assessments used to determine the
appropriate protective response at any given point in time (Calhoun & Weston, 2012).
✔✔CirCon Factors - ✔✔Circumstances, content, and contextual factors related to a
subjects inappropriate communication or contact Calhoun and Weston, 2003
✔✔Civil Action - ✔✔Orders issued by a court to convince the subject to stop threatening
behaviors or stay away from the target and are periodically employed as a Threat
Management intervention. (Calhoun & Weston 2009)
✔✔Code of Ethics - ✔✔Refers to the ethical code developed by ATAP outlining
appropriate behavior and decision making in Threat Assessment and Management.
(ATAP 2010)
SET A+
✔✔Classification of Violence Risk (COVR) - ✔✔Developed with the goal of offering
clinicians a structured tool to assist in their estimation of the risk of violence to others
posed by an individual with a mental disorder.
Interactive Software Program, 3 stages, Derived from the MacArthur Violence Risk
Assessment Study.
✔✔STATIC-99R - ✔✔An actuarial assessment tool for use with adult male sex
offenders (18+) at the time of release from their most recent sexually motivated offence.
Scores DO NOT indicate perpetual risk.
✔✔Violence Risk Appraisal Guide (VRAG) - ✔✔An actuarial risk assessment instrument
that assesses the risk of violent recidivism among men charged with criminal violence.
Was developed to assess mentally disordered and normal male offenders convicted of
violent offenses and have been validated by such offenders.
✔✔Sex Offender Risk Appraisal Guide (SORAG) - ✔✔An actuarial tool that assesses
violence and sexual violence among male offenders
✔✔Violence Risk Appraisal Guide -Revised (VRAG-R) - ✔✔Developed in order to
provide a single tool that was easier to score and validated for use with violent or sexual
offenders.
✔✔Ontario Domestic Assault Risk Assessment (ODARA) - ✔✔13 Item actuarial
instrument designed to assess the risk of violent recidivism against female domestic
partners among men with a police report of such violence.
✔✔Domestic Violence Risk Appraisal Guide (DVRAG) - ✔✔14 Item actuarial instrument
that assesses a domestic assaulters risk of violent recidivism against his partner among
men with a police record of such violence. Comprises ODARA and PCL-R score.
,✔✔Level of Service Instruments - ✔✔Began in the late 1970s.
Seek to standardize and render transparent the information that guided the
discretionary decisions of correctional professionals and make that information as a
matter of record; and develop the capacity of professionals to assess risk of criminal
recidivism, and identify dynamic risk factors.
✔✔Youth Level of Service/Case Management Inventory (YLS/CMI) - ✔✔-Designed to
assist the professional in evaluating risk and needs in youthful offenders (12-18).
-Considered an actuarial risk/need assessment tool based in empirically derived content
and yields quantitative estimates of risk and needs levels.
-Has 5 parts.
✔✔EARL B/G - ✔✔Early Assessment Risk List for Boys or Girls
✔✔HCR-20v3 (Historical-Clinical-Risk Management-20, Version 3) - ✔✔Defines
violence as actual, attempted or threatened inflictions of bodily harm to another person.
✔✔J-SOAP - ✔✔Juvenile Sex Offender Assessment Protocol.
SPJ Developed in Philidelphia in 1994-1995
✔✔Assessment - ✔✔The process of gathering information for use in making decisions.
✔✔Management - ✔✔The process of acting to gain or maintain control of situations.
✔✔Threat Assessment - ✔✔The process of gathering information to understand the
threat of violence posed by a person.
✔✔Threat Management - ✔✔The process of developing and executing plans to mitigate
the threat of violence posed by a person.
✔✔Affective Violence - ✔✔Proceeded by an autonomic arousal and is caused by a
reaction to a perceived threat accompanied by intense feelings of anger and/or fear.
It is largely a defensive form of violence and its evolutionary basis in self protection.
✔✔SVR 20 (Sexual violence risk scale) - ✔✔Reflects the opinions and
recommendations of the author, rather than the official position or policy of any agency,
organization, or association.
Not practice standards as they are no binding on and dont restrict the practice of any
professional groups.
✔✔Short Term Assessment of Risk and Treatability (START) - ✔✔-Intended to assist
mental health professionals in providing comprehensive care plans to address the
,needs of individuals with complex needs while meeting the legal and ethical
responsibilities of evaluating and preventing risk to patients, staff and the community.
-First SPJ measure to equitably consider individuals strengths and vulnerabilities.
✔✔The Spousal Assault Risk Assessment Guide (SARA) - ✔✔-Developed in the early
90's
-SPJ guidelines for the assessment and management of risk for Intimate partner
violence (IPV).
✔✔The Structured Assessment for Protective Factors of Violence Risk (SAPROF) -
✔✔-SPJ checklist of the assessment of protective factors for violence risk.
-Only SPJ Tool that focuses solely on protective factors.
✔✔SAVRY (Structured Assessment of Violence Risk in Youth) - ✔✔SPJ Tool for
assessing violence risk in adolescents (12-18).
✔✔RAGE-V - ✔✔-Risk Assessment Guidelines for Violence
-Created over 4 years by a Multi-disciplinary team. Released in 2006. Endorsed by
ATAP.
✔✔Buffers - ✔✔Also known as protective factors, such as adequate coping responses.
✔✔predictive validity - ✔✔The degree that a tool can differentiate the item being tested
from the part of the sample that does not contain that item or outcome.
✔✔Administrative Action - ✔✔A threat management intervention involving the use of
disciplinary action within an organization or structure to manage problem individuals
(e.g., firing, withholding services, suspension, barring from a particular location or
activity; Calhoun & Weston, 2009).
✔✔Affective Violence - ✔✔Sometimes called impulsive, emotional or reactive violence,
is an unplanned act of violence that occurs is response to a perceived threat in the
imminent environment. (Meloy 2006)
✔✔Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) - ✔✔Legislation passed in 1990 that prohibits
discrimination against people with disabilities. Under this Act, discrimination against a
disabled person is illegal in employment, transportation, public accommodations,
communications and government activities.
✔✔Anchors - ✔✔Factors that provide stability, in Threat Assessment, anchors could be
used to provide support or stability to a subject who is struggling or represent reasons
that an individual would not engage in targeted violence. (de Becker 1997)
, ✔✔Approach Behavior - ✔✔Refers to the type, frequency and intensity of the subjects
attempts to be physically proximal (close) to the target. Includes both successful and
unsuccessful attempts.
✔✔Attack - ✔✔Carrying out (or attempting to carry out) the intended violence against
the target. (Calhoun & Weston 2003)
✔✔Attack Related Behaviors - ✔✔Specific behaviors that are needed in order to launch
a physical assault on a target - These behaviors are displayed as steps on the pathway
to violence (Calhoun & Weston, 2009).
✔✔behavioral indicators - ✔✔An observable action that provides evidence of an
underlying element that may be relevant to a Threat Assessment and management
case. For example, the subject's actions may lead the assessor to believe the subject
has a mental health disorder that influences the level of threat posed by that individual.
(Bulling, et al 2008)
✔✔Behavioral Threat Assessment - ✔✔Threat Assessment orientated based on the
idea that the subject will exhibit identifiable behaviors indicating the intent to commit an
act of targeted violence. (Calhoun & Weston 2003)
✔✔Behaviors of Concern - ✔✔Observable, identifiable behaviors that an individual of
concern exhibits while he or she is progressing on the pathway to violence. (Calhoun &
Weston 2003)
✔✔Black Swan Events - ✔✔An event that is rare, predictable only in retrospect, with
extreme impacts. (Meloy, 2011, Talib 2007)
✔✔breach - ✔✔In Threat Assessment, this commonly refers to a situation where usual
security measures have been circumvented. (Calhoun & Weston 2003)
✔✔Case Dynamics - ✔✔The continuous interaction between what is known and
unknown in a particular case, and the evolving assessments used to determine the
appropriate protective response at any given point in time (Calhoun & Weston, 2012).
✔✔CirCon Factors - ✔✔Circumstances, content, and contextual factors related to a
subjects inappropriate communication or contact Calhoun and Weston, 2003
✔✔Civil Action - ✔✔Orders issued by a court to convince the subject to stop threatening
behaviors or stay away from the target and are periodically employed as a Threat
Management intervention. (Calhoun & Weston 2009)
✔✔Code of Ethics - ✔✔Refers to the ethical code developed by ATAP outlining
appropriate behavior and decision making in Threat Assessment and Management.
(ATAP 2010)
