Risk Management

Question 1

risk management defined as

Answer 1

-Efforts to manage &
reduce risk, and prevent violence. 
- Includes treatment,
supervision, monitoring,
victim safety-planning,
etc.

Question 2

Tools are an important ______ ______ but ___ ____ guarantee

better risk management outcomes

Answer 2

Tools are an important STARTING POINT but DO NOT guarantee

better risk management outcomes

Question 3

issues with risk assessments?

Answer 3

1) even when agencies adopts tools, many professionals don’t complete tools
2) risk assessments don’t guide plans
3) professionals don’t carry out plans
4) evidence-based programs aren’t available

Question 4

CBT used in

Answer 4

• RNR model emphasizes to use CBT
• Used for lots of forms of offending (e.g., sexual, intimate partner, violent)
• Anger management programs, etc.
• Group programs & individual therapy

Question 5

what are the 3 things CBT targets

Answer 5

1) thoughts
2) emotion
3) behaviour

Question 6

use the elevator example of someone bumping into you to explain the following cognitive biase; misinterpretation of situation

Answer 6

That guy was trying
to start a fight
(hostile attribution
bias)

Question 7

use the elevator example of someone bumping into you to explain the following cognitive biase;

belief that it’s justified

Answer 7

he deserves it for messing with me

Question 8

use the elevator example of someone bumping into you to explain the following cognitive biase;

belief that it’s effective

Answer 8

he won’t mess with me again if i hurt them

Question 9

use the elevator example of someone bumping into you to explain the following cognitive biase;

can’t think of other solutions

Answer 9

I had to do it – no

other options

Question 10

CBT helps identify _____

Answer 10

triggers