![]() ![]() ![]() Requesting or sharing, as authorised under applicable legislative schemes, with other organisations and services about the risk factors present or other relevant information about a victim or perpetrator’s circumstances. ![]() Interviewing or assessing the victim survivor directly.With further information to inform the assessment that you can gather from a variety of sources, including: The evidence-based risk factors identified as present.A victim survivor’s self-assessment of their level of risk, fear and safety.Structured Professional Judgement comprises: The comprehensive assessment builds on guidance in Responsibilities 1–3 and supports a person-centred approach to assessment. Structured Professional Judgement is the practice approach model that underpins the comprehensive risk assessment to support you to determine the current level of risk, history and pattern of violence, and inform risk management and intervention (see Responsibility 8).Ĭomprehensive assessment is the direct asking of questions about evidence-based family violence risk factors that may be experienced by an adult, child or young person. 7.2 Structured professional judgement in comprehensive risk assessment Generally comprehensive risk assessment and management by specialist family violence practitioners will be undertaken as part of a case management framework that includes engagement, risk and needs assessment, safety and action planning, intervention/implementation of plans, monitoring and coordination and review/ case closure. Specialist family violence practitioners provide services for family violence intervention with all or the majority of their work directly focused on family violence risk assessment and management practice.įor further information please refer to your organisation’s family violence policies and procedures and the MARAM Organisational embedding guide. 7.1.1 Who should undertake comprehensive risk assessment?Ĭomprehensive risk assessment is undertaken only by professionals with a specialist level of skill, knowledge and expertise in family violence practice. This is further discussed in Section 7.15. This guide also includes practice approaches where misidentification of the victim survivor and perpetrator may have occurred. Risk assessment and management for adolescents should always consider their age, developmental stage and individual circumstances, and include therapeutic responses, as required. Guidance which refers to a perpetrator in this guide is relevant if an adolescent is using family violence for the purposes of risk assessment with a victim survivor about their experience and the impact of violence. Guidance on undertaking comprehensive assessment to determine risk for children and young people is in Section 7.7 of this chapter. Understand the circumstances of both the victim survivor and perpetrator that can cause change or escalation of risk from the perpetrator.Provide you with a comprehensive understanding of the experience and presentation of risk for the victim survivor, as well as an understanding of the protective factors.Form a professional judgement on the level or ‘seriousness’ of risk.See the Table 5, Section 7.5 for information on the structure of the tools. Experience of risk for children and young people.Presentation of risk factors for people who are Aboriginal or identify as belonging to a diverse community or at- risk age group (for example, older people).A comprehensive risk assessment builds on questions about evidence-based risk factors in the intermediate risk assessment, with additional questions relating to: This chapter uses all elements of the process of Structured Professional Judgement and applies an intersectional analysis to inform the assessment, building on the guidance in the Foundation Knowledge Guide and Responsibilities 1–3. Comprehensively assess the family violence risks, needs and protective factors for victim survivors (adults, children and young people).Understand and apply all guidance on each of the previous responsibilities.Professionals required to have knowledge of Responsibility 7, should be able to: This may be following a referral of a victim survivor who has been identified and assessed by another service, receipt of a referral from Victoria Police (known as an L17) or following direct contact and disclosure from a victim survivor. Docx 110.57 KB 7 Comprehensive risk assessment 7.1 Overview This chapter should be used to guide comprehensive risk assessment of family violence. ![]()
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