@article{ref1,
title="Violence risk instruments may be culturally unsafe for use with Indigenous patients",
journal="Australasian psychiatry",
year="2016",
author="Shepherd, Stephane M.",
volume="24",
number="6",
pages="565-567",
abstract="OBJECTIVE: Violence risk assessment assumes a critical medico-legal role addressing offender/patient needs and informing forensic mental health decision making. Yet questions remain over the cross-cultural applicability of such measures. In their current form, violence risk instruments may not reflect the unique life and cultural experiences of Indigenous Australians rendering them culturally unsafe. <br><br>CONCLUSIONS: To realize equitable forensic assessment, it is necessary to ascertain whether there are cultural differences across risk factors for violence and that risk instruments are validated as culturally appropriate. Greater cross-cultural rigour in forensic mental health risk assessment, research and practice is proposed.<br><br>© The Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists 2016.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1039-8562",
doi="10.1177/1039856216665287",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1039856216665287"
}