HCR 20: Assessing Risk for Violence Version 3 (HCR-20 V3)

Purpose: Identify presence/absence of violence risk factors

Age: 18-65 years

Time: Untimed

The HCR-20 V3 is a comprehensive set of professional guidelines for the assessment and management of violence risk. It retains the features that made Version 2 so popular and incorporates cutting-edge developments in practice, including case formulation and scenario planning methods.

Key Features

• Built on the solid foundation laid by Versions 1 and 2, the HCR-20 V3 embodies and exemplifies the structured professional judgment (SPJ) model of violence risk assessment
• Commonly used within correctional, forensic, and general or civil psychiatric settings, both institutional and community-based
• Allows you to determine the presence of 20 key violence risk factors in your client and their relevance to that client
• Contains information to help you construct meaningful formulations of violence risk, future risk scenarios, appropriate risk management plans, and informative communication of risk
• Subjected to exhaustive testing and evaluations, this revision is expected to be even more clinically useful than its predecessor while still enjoying a solid empirical basis