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Laura S. Guy
Researcher at Simon Fraser University
Publications - 44
Citations - 2435
Laura S. Guy is an academic researcher from Simon Fraser University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Poison control & Risk assessment. The author has an hindex of 25, co-authored 44 publications receiving 2204 citations. Previous affiliations of Laura S. Guy include Sam Houston State University & University of Massachusetts Medical School.
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Psychosis as a risk factor for violence to others: a meta-analysis.
TL;DR: A quantitative review of research on the association between psychosis and violence indicated that psychosis was significantly associated with a 49%-68% increase in the odds of violence, however, there was substantial dispersion among effect sizes.
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Does psychopathy predict institutional misconduct among adults? A meta-analytic investigation.
TL;DR: This meta-analysis coded 273 effect sizes to investigate the association between the Hare scales and a hierarchy of increasingly specific forms of institutional misconduct and discusses the utility of the Hare measures for decision-making in institutional and other contexts.
HCR-20 Violence Risk Assessment Scheme: Overview and Annotated Bibliography
TL;DR: Some criminal offences could be prevented if more time and effort were spent in general psychiatric practice in identifying patients at high risk for violence and in reducing symptoms of psychoses before discharge, as well as across three levels of security.
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Historical-Clinical-Risk Management-20, Version 3 (HCR-20V3): Development and Overview
Kevin S. Douglas,Stephen D. Hart,Christopher D. Webster,Henrik Belfrage,Laura S. Guy,Catherine M. Wilson +5 more
TL;DR: The HCR-20 Version 3 (HCR-20V3) was published in 2013, after several years of development and revision work as discussed by the authors, and it replaces the previous version 2, published in 1997, on which there have been more than 200 disseminations based on more than 33,000 cases across 25 countries.
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Performance indicators of the structured professional judgment approach for assessing risk for violence to others: a meta-analytic survey
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors applied meta-analytic techniques to examine the predictive validity of the SPJ model using 113 disseminations and concluded that both types of technologies perfonn at comparably good levels of predictive accuracy, but that additional factors are relevant when selecting an approach for clinical practice.