About SAVRY

SAVRY is a copyrighted decision support tool and the original version in English is available from Psychological Assessment Resources (PAR)(See link). The Swedish version is exempt from this principle. For more information in English please visit this page.

The SAVRY was developed by Randy Borum, Patrick Bartel, and Adelle Forth to help in the assessment and management of risk for violence and other serious antisocial behaviour in boys and girls age 12-18 years. SAVRY is based on the structured professional judgement model of risk assessment and a review of the scientific literature on adolescent development and youth violence. SAVRY contains 24 risk and 6 protective factors. SAVRY risk items are grouped into three domains: historical, social/contextual and individual. All risk factors are scored low, medium/moderate or high. The protective factors are scored absent or present. The practioner/clinician arrive at a final risk summary: low, moderate or high risk of serious antisocial behaviour within a specified timeframe. The final risk rating takes the number of risk/needs factors into account, the specific constellation and possible case-specific factors not included among the 24 + 6 SAVRY items.

The aim of SAVRY is to guide the clinician to a better informed assessment of the level of risk that could aid interventions, including support, treatment and management. Assessing violence risk with young people is less problematic ethically when one also tries to reduce the assessed risk by targeted case-specific interventions.