MEGA ♪: A New Paradigm in Risk Assessment Tools for Sexually Abusive Youth

Performance of Protective Factors Assessment in Risk Prediction for Adults: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

“…Based on reviews of the literature about protective factors in forensic risk evaluation (de Ruiter & Nicholls, ; de Vries Robbé, de Vogel, & Stam, ), and from a search of computerized databases for studies involving assessment of protective factors for multiple adverse outcomes, we identified 17 instruments that aim to assist practitioners with the assessment of protective factors for the prediction of a range of adverse outcomes occurring in both institutional/correctional settings and the community following discharge or release: the Short‐Term Assessment of Risk and Treatability (START; Webster, Martin, Brink, Nicholls, & Desmarais, ), the START: Adolescent Version (START: AV; Viljoen, Cruise, Nicholls, Desmarais, & Webster, ), the Structured Assessment of PROtective Factors (SAPROF; de Vogel, de Ruiter, Bouman, & de Vries Robbé, ), the Structured Assessment of Violence Risk in Youth (SAVRY; Borum, ), the Dangerousness UNDerstanding, Recovery and Urgency Manual 3 and 4 (DUNDRUM‐3/4; Kennedy, O'Neill, Flynn, & Gill, ), the Inventory of Offender Risk, Needs, and Strengths (IORNS; Miller, ), the San Diego Regional Resiliency Check‐up (SDRRC; Turner & Fain, ), the Multiplex Empirically Guided Inventory of Ecological Aggregates for Assessing Sexually Abusive Children and Adolescents (MEGA; Miccio‐Fonseca, ), the Columbia Suicide Severity Rating Scale (CSSRS; Posner et al., ), and the Reasons for Living Inventory (RFL; Linehan, Goodstein, Nielsen, & Chiles, ) and its variations: BRFL (Ivanoff, Jang, Smyth, & Linehan, ), RFL‐A (Gutierrez, Osman, Kopper, & Barrios, ), BRFL‐A (Osman et al., ), RFL‐YA (Gutierrez et al., ), RFL‐OA (Edelstein et al., ), and RFL‐CS (Westefeld, Cardin, & Deaton, ).…”

Protective Factors in Risk Assessment Schemes for Adolescents in Mental Health and Criminal Justice Populations: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of their Predictive Efficacy

“…MEGA♪ (Miccio-Fonseca 2013, 2016Rasmussen 2013, 2015) MEGA♪ is a 75-item tool intended to aid assessment of risk for sexually inappropriate or abusive behaviors in children and adolescents aged 4-19 years. It comprises four scales: (1) the risk scale, containing 45 historical and dynamic items assessing generalized risk for "coarse sexual improprieties and/or sexually abusive behaviors" (p. 627);…”

Valoración y Gestión del Riesgo de Reincidencia Delictiva en Menores Infractores: una Revisión de Instrumentos

“…La herramienta también tiene en cuenta el componente familiar (historial y relaciones familiares) e información acerca del historial de comportamientos sexuales de abuso y sus características (escala de desviación sexual persistente) (frecuencia, sofisticación etc.). -Fonseca (2010-Fonseca ( , 2013-Fonseca ( , 2016 No existe adaptación en España "Desistimiento" sexual Instrumentos Objetivo / modelo Ítems y escalas Autores…”