CTM COMPREHENSIVE EXAM QUESTIONS
AND CORRECT ANSWERS STUDY GUIDE
●● Assessor
Answer: The person using this document (RAGE-V) to aid in the
formation of an opinion of violence risk.
●● Commitments
Answer: In this context (RAGE-V) it refers to involuntary or less than
voluntary hospitalizations for psychological problems. Hospitalizations
occur when someone poses a danger to themselves or others.
●● inevitability
Answer: The believe that no matter what actions one takes the course of
events will not change.
●● Mitigation strategies
Answer: Implementation of measure to lessen or eliminate the
occurrence or impact of an incident of potential violence.
●● process variables
Answer: Examines the interplay between ones' own beliefs and how that
fuels or prevents actions and behaviors.
,●● Protective Inhibitors
Answer: Beliefs, relationships, injuries, lack of resources or abilities that
can limit whether a person is likely to follow through with dangerous
conduct.
●● Violence Risk Assessment
Answer: The process of identifying behaviors that may signal an
individuals preparation to commit a violent act, assessing those
behaviors in the context of that person's past history of behavior and
other know incidents of violence that have demonstrated those
behaviors, quantifying the level of risk from this behavioral information
by using professional judgement and objective, appropriate tools to
provide a balanced assessment and presentation of that assessment to the
request or of the assessment, in such a way, as to qualify the opinion and
its limitations appropriately.
●● SARA
Answer: Spousal Risk Assessment Guide
●● VRAG
Answer: Violence Risk Appraisal Guide - a risk assessment attempting
to predict future violence
●● RAGE-V
,Answer: Risk Assessment Guideline Elements for Violence
●● Types of Targeted Violence
Answer: Domestic Violence, Stalking, Public Figure,
Corporate/Organizational
●● Threat, approach, and attack behavior are
Answer: the products of discernible processes of thinking and behavior
●● An individual's motives and target selection are
Answer: Directly connected
●● Precipitation may involve
Answer: a personal/significant stressor
●● Grievance
Answer: Motive or reason compelling the act
●● Ideation
Answer: Settling on the idea that violence is justified and necessary
●● Research and planning
, Answer: Going beyond the idea to figure out how to consummate the
violence. Obtaining necessary equipment and taking other actions
required to initiate the plan.
●● Breach
Answer: Initiating the plan to circumvent the targets security in order to
launch the attack
●● Attack
Answer: Physical Assault or Attack
●● SAM
Answer: Stalking Assessment and Management
●● SRP
Answer: Stalking Risk Profile
●● B-SAFER
Answer: Brief Spousal Assault Form for the Evaluation of Risk
●● Psychology
Answer: Discipline built on the study of human cognition, emotions and
behavior and the study of the interplay between those elements.
AND CORRECT ANSWERS STUDY GUIDE
●● Assessor
Answer: The person using this document (RAGE-V) to aid in the
formation of an opinion of violence risk.
●● Commitments
Answer: In this context (RAGE-V) it refers to involuntary or less than
voluntary hospitalizations for psychological problems. Hospitalizations
occur when someone poses a danger to themselves or others.
●● inevitability
Answer: The believe that no matter what actions one takes the course of
events will not change.
●● Mitigation strategies
Answer: Implementation of measure to lessen or eliminate the
occurrence or impact of an incident of potential violence.
●● process variables
Answer: Examines the interplay between ones' own beliefs and how that
fuels or prevents actions and behaviors.
,●● Protective Inhibitors
Answer: Beliefs, relationships, injuries, lack of resources or abilities that
can limit whether a person is likely to follow through with dangerous
conduct.
●● Violence Risk Assessment
Answer: The process of identifying behaviors that may signal an
individuals preparation to commit a violent act, assessing those
behaviors in the context of that person's past history of behavior and
other know incidents of violence that have demonstrated those
behaviors, quantifying the level of risk from this behavioral information
by using professional judgement and objective, appropriate tools to
provide a balanced assessment and presentation of that assessment to the
request or of the assessment, in such a way, as to qualify the opinion and
its limitations appropriately.
●● SARA
Answer: Spousal Risk Assessment Guide
●● VRAG
Answer: Violence Risk Appraisal Guide - a risk assessment attempting
to predict future violence
●● RAGE-V
,Answer: Risk Assessment Guideline Elements for Violence
●● Types of Targeted Violence
Answer: Domestic Violence, Stalking, Public Figure,
Corporate/Organizational
●● Threat, approach, and attack behavior are
Answer: the products of discernible processes of thinking and behavior
●● An individual's motives and target selection are
Answer: Directly connected
●● Precipitation may involve
Answer: a personal/significant stressor
●● Grievance
Answer: Motive or reason compelling the act
●● Ideation
Answer: Settling on the idea that violence is justified and necessary
●● Research and planning
, Answer: Going beyond the idea to figure out how to consummate the
violence. Obtaining necessary equipment and taking other actions
required to initiate the plan.
●● Breach
Answer: Initiating the plan to circumvent the targets security in order to
launch the attack
●● Attack
Answer: Physical Assault or Attack
●● SAM
Answer: Stalking Assessment and Management
●● SRP
Answer: Stalking Risk Profile
●● B-SAFER
Answer: Brief Spousal Assault Form for the Evaluation of Risk
●● Psychology
Answer: Discipline built on the study of human cognition, emotions and
behavior and the study of the interplay between those elements.
