Increased media attention to post-deployment violence highlights the need to develop
effective models to guide risk assessment among military Veterans. Ideally, a method would …

Objective Violence toward others is a serious problem among a subset of military veterans.
The authors evaluated the predictive validity of a brief decision support tool to screen …

This study, using a longitudinal design, attempted to identify whether self-reported problems
with violence were empirically associated with future violent behavior among Iraq and …

Despite a long history of interest in, and criticism of, the ability of mental health professionals
to assess and predict violence, there have been few efforts to develop or evaluate …

In the past decade, research on violence risk assessment has aimed to establish empirically
validated risk factors. Although a number of papers have reviewed what clinicians should …

Guidance to identify and manage clients with a perceived high risk for future violence is of
great importance for mental health professionals. In the past decade, several structured …

BackgroundResearch into violence among military personnel has not differentiated between
stranger-and family-directed violence. While military factors (combat exposure and post …

Abstract This Current Issues section of the American Psychologist examines recent
advances in violence risk assessment, especially communications about risks of violence …

Although there has been extensive research on violence risk assessment in the past
decade, it has not been examined whether clinicians in actual practice consider violence …

Objective: After returning home, a subset of Iraq and Afghanistan War veterans report
engaging in aggression toward others. This study is the first to identify variables empirically …