Identifying risk and protective factors is foundational to developing strategies to prevent disruptive behavior in children. There are currently two Structured Professional Judgement instruments aimed for this purpose, both of which incorporate gender- and cultural considerations: the Early Assessment Risk List Version 3 (EARL-V3) and the Structured Assessment of Protective Factors for serious problem behavior – Child Version (SAPROF-CV). While these instruments can be used entirely independently, they complement each other and allow for a balanced estimate of a child’s risk for future behaviour problems, as well as a detailed treatment plan. In this presentation, we will present a prototypical case of a 10-year-old child at risk of engaging in crime. We will show how the risk/protective factors of the two instruments are scored and how they can be integrated to create a comprehensive treatment plan to reduce the identified risks and enhance protective factors to decrease negative outcomes.
Learning Objectives
Built within a measurement-based care model, the audience will learn about two structured professional judgement assessment tools for children displaying disruptive behaviour (EARL-V3 and SAPROF-CV) and experience rating a fictitious case using both instruments.
Presenters:
Leena Augimeri (Child Development Institute)
Leena Augimeri, PhD is SNAP Co-Founder/Director of SNAP® Scientific & Program Development at Child Development Institute and Adjunct Professor, University of Toronto. For 38 years, this innovative scientist-practitioner has focused on research, development, dissemination, and implementation of evidence-based children/youth mental health (MH) and crime prevention (CP) strategies, and the creation of a comprehensive MH CP framework for children/youth with serious disruptive behaviour problems that included community referral protocols, risk/need assessment guides (EARL-V3), and gender-sensitive SNAP model programs.
Areti Smaragdi (Child Development Institute)
Areti Smaragdi, Ph.D, is a Research and Development Consultant for CDI, based in the U.K. Over the last nine years, her research has focused on the neurodevelopmental correlated of conduct problems in children. Areti is also a co-developer and author of the Early Assessment Risk List (EARL) V3, assessing risk of antisocial behavior for children under 12. In addition, she is also part of the development team and has co-authored the Structured Assessment of Protective Factors for violence risk (SAPROF) Child-Version.
Margaret Walsh (Child Development Institute)
Margaret Walsh, Manager of SNAP Research, Evaluation and Systems, is one of the principal leads on the SNAP Youth Justice development project. Her research has focused on gender, treatment responsiveness, risk, implementation and fidelity protocols. She is heading the development of the SNAP Implementation Fidelity Tool (SNAPiT) as part of SNAP’s national scaling up project. Margaret has published extensively on gender effects and program evaluation, risk and protective factor identification and management assessment tools (EARL V3 & SAPROF-CV).
