FAVT™ and FAVT-A™

Features and benefits

• The FAVT and FAVT-A can have multiple applications:
  • as a screening device of violence potential within normal, clinical, and forensic settings
  • as a threat assessment measure
  • in the identification of violent thoughts and subsequent clinical intervention; and
  • for monitoring an individual’s level of change or progress at regular intervals or at key points in the treatment process.
• Derived directly from clinical material gathered from violent individuals, FAVT items represent thoughts experienced prior to committing violent acts.
• FAVT items are organized into five levels - (i.e., Paranoid/Suspicious, Persecuted Misfit, Self-Depreciating/Pseudo-Independent, Overtly Aggressive, Self-Aggrandizing) and two theoretical subscales (i.e., Instrumental/Proactive Violence, Hostile/Reactive Violence), allowing you to better understand the client and thus offer more targeted treatment.
• Data on two reference groups (i.e., Incarcerated, Anger Management) provide you with valuable information for making level-of-care/restriction decisions and for identifying the appropriate intervention intensity.
• Change score tables are provided across four different levels of significance for four normative groups and two reference groups so that you can judge the significance of a change over two administrations.