SAPROF
Definition
Structured Assessment of Protective Factors for Violence Risk (2009): 17-item SPJ instrument covering internal, motivational, and external protective factors; used alongside HCR-20 V3 to provide a balanced risk-and-protective-factor formulation.
- Full name
- Structured Assessment of Protective Factors for Violence Risk
- Published
- 2009
- Item count
- 17
- Approach
- Structured Professional Judgment (SPJ)
- Common pairing
- Used alongside HCR-20 V3
Common questions
Why is SAPROF used alongside HCR-20 V3 rather than on its own?+
HCR-20 V3 focuses on risk factors that increase the likelihood of violence, while SAPROF was built specifically to assess protective factors that reduce it, so pairing the two gives an evaluator a more balanced formulation than either instrument alone.
What kinds of protective factors does SAPROF's 17-item structure cover?+
The instrument spans internal factors such as self-control, motivational factors like treatment engagement, and external factors such as social support and stable living circumstances, reflecting the view that protection against violence comes from more than one domain.
How does a Structured Professional Judgment tool like SAPROF differ from a purely actuarial risk score?+
An SPJ instrument guides the evaluator through a structured set of factors but still relies on clinical judgment to weigh and integrate them into a final risk formulation, rather than producing a fixed numerical score the way a purely actuarial tool would.
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