ATAP CTM Complete Questions with
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Threat Management ✔✔ The progression of recognizing and thinking through a
problem situation to its successful outcome.
Active Situations ✔✔ Behaviors point to a continued or escalating or potentially
escalating risk to the target.
Inactive situations ✔✔ Stage when one can confidently document the assessment that
the subject does not pose a risk to the target at this time.
Chronic or habitual situations ✔✔ Involve subjects who make repeated, inappropriate
approaches toward targets, frequently multiple targets, over extended periods of time,
but never escalate.
Long-term situations ✔✔ Assessed as low risk, but steady, and the application of all
the appropriate Threat Management strategies has produced only limited success...
wait and watch.
Instinctive Evaluation ✔✔ Requires one to constantly monitor, flows with situational
currents. Relies on knowledge, instincts, training and experience. OODA Loop.
Formal Assessment ✔✔ Snapshot in time
TIME ✔✔ Threats, Intimidation, Manipulation, Escalation
PINs ✔✔ Pre-Incident Indicators
Behavioral Information ✔✔ The gathering of information that can provide insight into
the person of concern's physical behavioral choices, and then assessing what the
physical behavioral may reveal to us.
ECI Enhanced Cognitive Interviewing ✔✔ Incorporates several elements of our
heretofore normal interviewing process, while adding some valuable additional tools.
Collateral Source Interview ✔✔ Interviews of individuals who can provide us additional
information on specific occurrences or facts for the purpose of clarification,
corroboration or calibration.
CARG (Carwood Assessment and Response Intervention Grid) ✔✔ Typical SPJ Tool;
Assigns low, medium or high risk levels from mapping 6 or more pieces of information.
,predictive validity ✔✔ The degree that a tool can differentiate the items being tested
from the part of the specific sample that does not contain that item or outcome.
Case Monitoring ✔✔ Should be considered a continuous activity, from the initial report
of the case, to the final closure, assuming that ever occurs.
Domineering Victim ✔✔ Those who intimidate, browbeat, bully or simply have a
dominant personality.
Fantasy Victim ✔✔ See themselves as very important, superior, have a sense of
entitlement, are exploitive of others, lack empathy and are perceived as arrogant.
"Nice person" victim ✔✔ May appear orderly, organized and friendly upon initial
meeting.
Romantically Involved victim ✔✔ These victims may actually be the catalysts for
instigators.
Criminal Victim ✔✔ Fan the flames of violence
18 USC 2261 ✔✔ Interstate Domestic Violence
18 USC 2261A ✔✔ Interstate Stalking
18 USC 2262 ✔✔ Interstate Violation of a Protection Order
18 USC 2265 ✔✔ A full faith and credit restraining order
18 USC 922 ✔✔ Unlawful possession of a firearm
Guns and ammo
18 USC 875 ✔✔ Interstate Communications
47 USC 223 ✔✔ Obscene or harassing phone calls in DC or in Interstate Comms
Tarasoff Warning ✔✔ Specific type of warning provided by mental health professionals
who are told by patients that the patients plan to harm a named person or target and the
mental health professional believes, in their judgement that the threat is credible.
actuarial assessment ✔✔ Formal method that uses an equation, formula, a graph or
an actuarial table to arrive at a probability or expected value, of some outcome.
,SPJ (structured professional judgement) ✔✔ Presentation of Specific risks and
protective factors, which as usually derived from a broad review of literature rather than
from analysis of a specific threat.
Anamnestic Assessment ✔✔ Characterized as a process rather than a specialized
too. Uses applied behavior analytic strategies to gather detailed information about the
individual's history of violence.
PLC-R ✔✔ 20 item construct rating scale used in research and clinical settings to
assess psychopathy among adults.
Dynamic Appraisal of Situational Aggression in-patient Version (DASA-IV)) ✔✔ An
actuarial measure designed to assess for risk for imminent in-patient violence and
identify targets for staff intervention.
V-Risk-10 ✔✔ An SPJ measure developed to assist in the evaluation of risk for
inpatient and outpatient violence among adult psychiatric patients.
DVSI (Domestic Violence Screening Instrument) ✔✔ An actuarial measure designed
to screen for risk of intimate partner violence to indicate whether a more comprehensive
risk assessment should be conducted, or immediate risk management plans should be
put in place.
DROAR (Dynamic Risk assessment for offender Re-entry) ✔✔ A Clinical rating scale
designed to assist in the assessment and management of general and violent recidivism
of both male and female offenders over 18 under community supervision.
JSORRAT-II (Juvenile sexual Offender Recidivism Risk Assessment Tool ✔✔
Actuarial Measure designed to assist in the evaluation of risk of sexual violence among
male juvenile offenders aged 12-17 who have committed a sexual offense.
SAM (Stalking Assessment and Management) ✔✔ SPJ Risk assessment measure
developed to assess the risk of stalking or criminal harassment among individuals with a
known or suspected history of stalking.
Stalking Risk Profile (SRP) ✔✔ An SPJ measure developed to assist in evaluation and
management of different domains of risk related to stalking.
PATRIARCH ✔✔ Assessment of Risk for Honor Based Violence. An SPJ measure
designed to assist in assessment and management of risk foe any "Actual, attempted or
threatened physical harm, including forced marriages, with honor as the motive.
Barefoot v. Estelle (1983) ✔✔ Predictions are constitutional when introduced at the
sentencing stage of capitol trials. If expert predictions about violence are a
, constitutionally permissible means of establishing a persons eligibility for execution,
they presumably are constitutionally for all purposes/
Classification of Violence Risk (COVR) ✔✔ Developed with the goal of offering
clinicians a structured tool to assist in their estimation of the risk of violence to others
posed by an individual with a mental disorder.
Interactive Software Program, 3 stages, Derived from the MacArthur Violence Risk
Assessment Study.
STATIC-99R ✔✔ An actuarial assessment tool for use with adult male sex offenders
(18+) at the time of release from their most recent sexually motivated offence.
Scores DO NOT indicate perpetual risk.
Violence Risk Appraisal Guide (VRAG) ✔✔ An actuarial risk assessment instrument
that assesses the risk of violent recidivism among men charged with criminal violence.
Was developed to assess mentally disordered and normal male offenders convicted of
violent offenses and have been validated by such offenders.
Sex Offender Risk Appraisal Guide (SORAG) ✔✔ An actuarial tool that assesses
violence and sexual violence among male offenders
Violence Risk Appraisal Guide -Revised (VRAG-R) ✔✔ Developed in order to provide
a single tool that was easier to score and validated for use with violent or sexual
offenders.
Ontario Domestic Assault Risk Assessment (ODARA) ✔✔ 13 Item actuarial instrument
designed to assess the risk of violent recidivism against female domestic partners
among men with a police report of such violence.
Domestic Violence Risk Appraisal Guide (DVRAG) ✔✔ 14 Item actuarial instrument
that assesses a domestic assaulters risk of violent recidivism against his partner among
men with a police record of such violence. Comprises ODARA and PCL-R score.
Level of Service Instruments ✔✔ Began in the late 1970s.
Seek to standardize and render transparent the information that guided the
discretionary decisions of correctional professionals and make that information as a
matter of record; and develop the capacity of professionals to assess risk of criminal
recidivism, and identify dynamic risk factors.
Youth Level of Service/Case Management Inventory (YLS/CMI) ✔✔ -Designed to
assist the professional in evaluating risk and needs in youthful offenders (12-18).
-Considered an actuarial risk/need assessment tool based in empirically derived content
and yields quantitative estimates of risk and needs levels.
Answers 100% Correct
Threat Management ✔✔ The progression of recognizing and thinking through a
problem situation to its successful outcome.
Active Situations ✔✔ Behaviors point to a continued or escalating or potentially
escalating risk to the target.
Inactive situations ✔✔ Stage when one can confidently document the assessment that
the subject does not pose a risk to the target at this time.
Chronic or habitual situations ✔✔ Involve subjects who make repeated, inappropriate
approaches toward targets, frequently multiple targets, over extended periods of time,
but never escalate.
Long-term situations ✔✔ Assessed as low risk, but steady, and the application of all
the appropriate Threat Management strategies has produced only limited success...
wait and watch.
Instinctive Evaluation ✔✔ Requires one to constantly monitor, flows with situational
currents. Relies on knowledge, instincts, training and experience. OODA Loop.
Formal Assessment ✔✔ Snapshot in time
TIME ✔✔ Threats, Intimidation, Manipulation, Escalation
PINs ✔✔ Pre-Incident Indicators
Behavioral Information ✔✔ The gathering of information that can provide insight into
the person of concern's physical behavioral choices, and then assessing what the
physical behavioral may reveal to us.
ECI Enhanced Cognitive Interviewing ✔✔ Incorporates several elements of our
heretofore normal interviewing process, while adding some valuable additional tools.
Collateral Source Interview ✔✔ Interviews of individuals who can provide us additional
information on specific occurrences or facts for the purpose of clarification,
corroboration or calibration.
CARG (Carwood Assessment and Response Intervention Grid) ✔✔ Typical SPJ Tool;
Assigns low, medium or high risk levels from mapping 6 or more pieces of information.
,predictive validity ✔✔ The degree that a tool can differentiate the items being tested
from the part of the specific sample that does not contain that item or outcome.
Case Monitoring ✔✔ Should be considered a continuous activity, from the initial report
of the case, to the final closure, assuming that ever occurs.
Domineering Victim ✔✔ Those who intimidate, browbeat, bully or simply have a
dominant personality.
Fantasy Victim ✔✔ See themselves as very important, superior, have a sense of
entitlement, are exploitive of others, lack empathy and are perceived as arrogant.
"Nice person" victim ✔✔ May appear orderly, organized and friendly upon initial
meeting.
Romantically Involved victim ✔✔ These victims may actually be the catalysts for
instigators.
Criminal Victim ✔✔ Fan the flames of violence
18 USC 2261 ✔✔ Interstate Domestic Violence
18 USC 2261A ✔✔ Interstate Stalking
18 USC 2262 ✔✔ Interstate Violation of a Protection Order
18 USC 2265 ✔✔ A full faith and credit restraining order
18 USC 922 ✔✔ Unlawful possession of a firearm
Guns and ammo
18 USC 875 ✔✔ Interstate Communications
47 USC 223 ✔✔ Obscene or harassing phone calls in DC or in Interstate Comms
Tarasoff Warning ✔✔ Specific type of warning provided by mental health professionals
who are told by patients that the patients plan to harm a named person or target and the
mental health professional believes, in their judgement that the threat is credible.
actuarial assessment ✔✔ Formal method that uses an equation, formula, a graph or
an actuarial table to arrive at a probability or expected value, of some outcome.
,SPJ (structured professional judgement) ✔✔ Presentation of Specific risks and
protective factors, which as usually derived from a broad review of literature rather than
from analysis of a specific threat.
Anamnestic Assessment ✔✔ Characterized as a process rather than a specialized
too. Uses applied behavior analytic strategies to gather detailed information about the
individual's history of violence.
PLC-R ✔✔ 20 item construct rating scale used in research and clinical settings to
assess psychopathy among adults.
Dynamic Appraisal of Situational Aggression in-patient Version (DASA-IV)) ✔✔ An
actuarial measure designed to assess for risk for imminent in-patient violence and
identify targets for staff intervention.
V-Risk-10 ✔✔ An SPJ measure developed to assist in the evaluation of risk for
inpatient and outpatient violence among adult psychiatric patients.
DVSI (Domestic Violence Screening Instrument) ✔✔ An actuarial measure designed
to screen for risk of intimate partner violence to indicate whether a more comprehensive
risk assessment should be conducted, or immediate risk management plans should be
put in place.
DROAR (Dynamic Risk assessment for offender Re-entry) ✔✔ A Clinical rating scale
designed to assist in the assessment and management of general and violent recidivism
of both male and female offenders over 18 under community supervision.
JSORRAT-II (Juvenile sexual Offender Recidivism Risk Assessment Tool ✔✔
Actuarial Measure designed to assist in the evaluation of risk of sexual violence among
male juvenile offenders aged 12-17 who have committed a sexual offense.
SAM (Stalking Assessment and Management) ✔✔ SPJ Risk assessment measure
developed to assess the risk of stalking or criminal harassment among individuals with a
known or suspected history of stalking.
Stalking Risk Profile (SRP) ✔✔ An SPJ measure developed to assist in evaluation and
management of different domains of risk related to stalking.
PATRIARCH ✔✔ Assessment of Risk for Honor Based Violence. An SPJ measure
designed to assist in assessment and management of risk foe any "Actual, attempted or
threatened physical harm, including forced marriages, with honor as the motive.
Barefoot v. Estelle (1983) ✔✔ Predictions are constitutional when introduced at the
sentencing stage of capitol trials. If expert predictions about violence are a
, constitutionally permissible means of establishing a persons eligibility for execution,
they presumably are constitutionally for all purposes/
Classification of Violence Risk (COVR) ✔✔ Developed with the goal of offering
clinicians a structured tool to assist in their estimation of the risk of violence to others
posed by an individual with a mental disorder.
Interactive Software Program, 3 stages, Derived from the MacArthur Violence Risk
Assessment Study.
STATIC-99R ✔✔ An actuarial assessment tool for use with adult male sex offenders
(18+) at the time of release from their most recent sexually motivated offence.
Scores DO NOT indicate perpetual risk.
Violence Risk Appraisal Guide (VRAG) ✔✔ An actuarial risk assessment instrument
that assesses the risk of violent recidivism among men charged with criminal violence.
Was developed to assess mentally disordered and normal male offenders convicted of
violent offenses and have been validated by such offenders.
Sex Offender Risk Appraisal Guide (SORAG) ✔✔ An actuarial tool that assesses
violence and sexual violence among male offenders
Violence Risk Appraisal Guide -Revised (VRAG-R) ✔✔ Developed in order to provide
a single tool that was easier to score and validated for use with violent or sexual
offenders.
Ontario Domestic Assault Risk Assessment (ODARA) ✔✔ 13 Item actuarial instrument
designed to assess the risk of violent recidivism against female domestic partners
among men with a police report of such violence.
Domestic Violence Risk Appraisal Guide (DVRAG) ✔✔ 14 Item actuarial instrument
that assesses a domestic assaulters risk of violent recidivism against his partner among
men with a police record of such violence. Comprises ODARA and PCL-R score.
Level of Service Instruments ✔✔ Began in the late 1970s.
Seek to standardize and render transparent the information that guided the
discretionary decisions of correctional professionals and make that information as a
matter of record; and develop the capacity of professionals to assess risk of criminal
recidivism, and identify dynamic risk factors.
Youth Level of Service/Case Management Inventory (YLS/CMI) ✔✔ -Designed to
assist the professional in evaluating risk and needs in youthful offenders (12-18).
-Considered an actuarial risk/need assessment tool based in empirically derived content
and yields quantitative estimates of risk and needs levels.
