PSYC 2400 Chapter Notes - Chapter 10: Psychopathy, Sex Offender, Impulsivity

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 2400
• Professor: Adelle Forth

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National parole board, with much-needed information to help them make challenging decisions. It highlights the idea that probabilities may change across time. Civil setting: a number of civil contexts require risk assessment, civil commitment requires an individual to be hospitalized involuntarily if he or she has a mental illness and poses a danger to him or herself or others. In canada, only a psychiatrist can commit someone to a hospital: assessment of risk in child protection contexts involves the laws that are in place to protect children from abuse. The risk of physical or sexual abuse or neglect is considered when a gover(cid:374)(cid:373)e(cid:374)t prote(cid:272)tio(cid:374) age(cid:374)(cid:272)y (cid:894)childre(cid:374)"s aid(cid:895) de(cid:272)ides (cid:449)hether to te(cid:373)porarily remove a child from his or her home or to terminate parental rights. To provide assistance to protection agencies, professionals need to be familiar with the risk factors that predict childhood maltreatment. The client was a man accused of aggravated sexual assault on a prostitute.