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Raphael Healthcare continues to become leaders in the field of risk assessments and in particular, risk assessment within a female forensic population.  As a result, Raphael Healthcare’s Lead Psychologist Phil Coombes is proud to introduce the GRiST (Galetean Risk Screening Tool) Risk Assessment tool at The Farndon Unit.  The tool which will run alongside the HCR-20 tool will be able to record data and provide risk estimates for suicide, self-harm, self-neglect, and harm to others.
 
The Farndon Unit uses the HCr-20 as the standardised risk assessment tool which is utilised across forensic populations, but it was identified as violence specific and therefore did not meet the more important areas of risk which the female low secure population present with, i.e. self harm, suicide, self neglect and substance misuse.   With this in mind, it was decided that a tool needed to be found that could pick up on these areas to allow a more informed understanding of the complete risk areas presented. 
 
Having seen a presentation at a national risk conference regarding a new initiative developed from the need for better risk assessment across populations, Phil Coombes met and discussed GRiST with its developers.  Phil said “Being at its current stage I felt that it as an ideal time to be able to use our own experience and knowledge as an organisation to help shape this assessment tool and make it client specific, with the ongoing drive to be market leaders this gives the unit an ideal opportunity to be at the forefront of female forensic risk assessment development and implementation.“
 
For more information about GRiST visit https://www.grist.galassify.org/index.php


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