Field Reliability of the SAVRY with Juvenile Probation Officers: Implications for Training
UMass Chan Affiliations
Department of Psychiatry, Center for Mental Health Services ResearchDocument Type
Journal ArticlePublication Date
2012-06-01Keywords
ViolenceJuvenile Delinquency
Mental Disorders
Adolescent
Psychiatric Status Rating Scales
Risk Assessment
Reproducibility of Results
Health Services Research
Mental and Social Health
Psychiatric and Mental Health
Psychiatry
Psychiatry and Psychology
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Two complimentary studies were conducted to investigate the inter-rater reliability and performance of juvenile justice personnel when conducting the Structured Assessment of Violence Risk for Youth (SAVRY). Study 1 reports the performance on four standardized vignettes of 408 juvenile probation officers (JPOs) and social workers rating the SAVRY as part of their training. JPOs had high agreement with the expert consensus on the SAVRY rating of overall risk and total scores, but those trained by a peer master trainer outperformed those trained by an expert. Study 2 examined the field reliability of the SAVRY on 80 young offender cases rated by a JPO and a trained research assistant. In the field, intra-class correlation coefficients were 'excellent' for SAVRY total and most domain scores, and were 'good' for overall risk ratings. Results suggest that the SAVRY and structured professional judgment can be used reliably in the field by juvenile justice personnel and is comparable to reliability indices reported in more lab-like research studies; however, replication is essential.Source
Law Hum Behav. 2012 Jun;36(3):225-36. Link to article on publisher's website
DOI
10.1007/s10979-011-9284-2Permanent Link to this Item
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14038/45319PubMed ID
21523526Related Resources
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10.1007/s10979-011-9284-2