SAVRY™

Structured Assessment of Violence Risk in Youth™

Purpose: Assesses the risk of violence

Format: Paper and pencil

Age range: 12 years to 18 years

Time: 10-15 minutes

DETAILS:

The SAVRY is composed of 24 items in three risk domains (Historical Risk Factors, Social/Contextual Risk Factors, and Individual/Clinical Factors), drawn from existing research and the professional literature on adolescent development as well as on violence and aggression in youth.

Features and Benefits

• Based on the structured professional judgment (SPJ) model, the SAVRY helps you structure an assessment so that important factors will be emphasized when you formulate a final professional judgment about a youth’s level of risk.

• Addresses the primary domains of known risk and protective factors and provides clear operational definitions. Risk and protective factors are based on their relationship to adolescents—not to children or adults.

• Not designed to be a formal test or scale, there are no assigned numerical values or specified cutoff scores.

• Both reactive and proactive aggression—aggression subtypes that are extensively theoretically supported—are emphasized.

• Items have direct implications for treatment, including the consideration of dynamic factors that can be useful targets for intervention in risk reduction.