- So Christina Neuhaus actually simplifies
this even more than John Moynahand did.
And she presents three categories of risk.
Individual clinical risk factors,
so those can include a diagnosis,
there are certainly more diagnoses
that can increase your risk
for being dangerous than others.
Historical risk factors, again going back
to what is your history?
What have you already done?
That's a good way to assess the future.
But it's not foolproof.
And then enviromental risk factors.
So she basically just took the checklist
that John came up with and just simplified
it down to three things.
So when you're working with individuals
you really want to pay attention
to these three categories.
Think about where people are within this.
Have that awareness, start to think about
that from a safety perspective.
Not only is it helpful for safety reasons,
but it's also really helpful to any
kind of assessments that you guys are going to be writing.
And then Robert Fine developed the person situation
environment theory of predicting future violent behavior.
This one is always interesting to me.
What's the most interesting is the wording
that he uses, but what he says is
when a person experiences unbearable
stress he or she has four choices.
I think it's the word choices that throws me.
Because I wouldn't choose any of those categories.
But what he basically says is that
you'll become physically ill,
you'll become psychotic,
you'll become violent to yourself,
or you'll become violent to others.
What he's not saying is that every
single person that experiences unbearable stress
will do only one of those four things.
So for those of you who have unbearable stress right now,
do not worry, that doesn't mean you're
going to fall into one of those categories.
But you could.
(laughing)
I'm sorry Ms. Smith if you have
students un-enroll after this.
(laughing)