The "Unstructured Clinical Judgment" Approach to Risk Assessment Involves

question 33

Multiple Choice

The "unstructured clinical judgment" approach to risk assessment involves:

• A)using empirical or mechanical instruments following explicit rules about what factors to consider and how to combine those factors
• B)arriving at an estimate of risk based on the assessor's own idiosyncratic decisions about what factors to consider and how to combine those factors
• C)using tables linking scores to expected recidivism rates
• D)using a selection of factors derived from empirical literature on recidivism

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