PSYCH230 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Incardination And Excardination

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCH230
• Professor: John Rempel

Document Summary

Lecture 20 mental illness, risk assessment & treatment. Four criteria for clinical expertise: agree amongst themselves, accurate, differ from non-professionals, make use of specialized procedures. Compared to high school teachers, clinicians: had low levels of agreement amongst themselves, weighed information similarly to teachers, affected more by offense descriptions and offender history than by assessment data (same as teachers) Didn"t need to be a clinician to do well. 9 clinicians completed an assessment questionnaire for 200 remanded men: agreement on treatability, dangerousness and recommendations was moderate, no consensus for type of treatment. Questionnaires were completed immediately after 60 interdisciplinary case conferences involving extensive group discussion. Use predictors statistically related to violent recidivism. Clinicians expected dangerousness to be related to: a homicide offense, high institutional assault frequency, an involuntary admission, low iq. Actual factors related to dangerousness: an economic or sexual offense, remand (not involuntary) admission status, young age, number of times in connections, higher iq.