Assessment of clients needs and risks are important and ongoing aspects of the work with clients with high levels of interpersonal dysfunction. Knowing clients needs is key to developing support strategies, and especially where clients pose significant risk to others, the assessment of risk can be a primary focus.
Different client groups have different levels and types of risk, and risk indicators may be different. This training can be adjusted for work with different client groups. It can include a focus on:
- building engagement while gathering information
- the importance of multi-agency collaboration (especially with services working with victims) for effective risk management
- the perspective of victims and how our clients might be impacting on victims of their behaviour, where they are causing harm to others
- how assessment feeds into wider case management and into collaborating on goal setting with clients
- types of risk, and the risk management cycle
- the criminogenic needs concept
- the strengths and weaknesses of various assessment instruments
- system generated risk
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