Domestic Violence Assessment Software

for Macintosh and Windows

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The Domestic Violence Assessment Software has been developed to assist mental health professionals, attorneys and investigators working perpetrators and victims of domestic violence and child abuse.

The Domestic Violence Inventory can be utilized to take comprehensive histories with both victims and perpetrators of violence. Summaries can be printed and inserted into the chart for easy review. This inventory also provides a numerical breakdown of the approximate number of physical, sexual and psychological violent acts.

The Domestic Violence Risk Assessment takes the user through over a dozen risk areas exploring such factors as: frequency of physical violence, severity of injuries, threats, history of child abuse, psychiatric diagnosis, proximity of victims and offender and attitudes towards violence. The user is provided both a summary of the risk factors chosen and recommendations that guide the professional in decision-making with regard to risk prevention and treatment planning. The package includes copies of the software for both Macintosh and Windows and electronic copies of the risk assessment, violence inventory and child abuse inventory forms.

Cost: $49.00 (download).

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"Sonkin rightly alerts his readers to two points about clinical assessment of risk: that the chances of being correct are about 50-50, but that the best predictor of future behavior is past behavior. He thus advocates a comprehensive assessment of both psychological and physical abusiveness. Sonkin emphasizes that his Checklist is a guide not a psychometric test. In effect it combines frequency and severity of physical and sexual violence, threats, intoxication, drug use, DSM-IV diagnosis, severity of current psychosocial stressors, global assessment of functioning, proximity of victim and offender, prior criminal convictions of offender, prior criminal behaviors and abuse of children and attitudes towards violence. Of all risk assessment inventories reviewed, it was probably the lengthiest and most comprehensive."

from Dutton, D. & Kroop (2000). A Review of Domestic Violence Risk Instruments. Trauma, Violence & Abuse (2000) 1, (2), 171- 181.

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