Training & Consultancy

Assessing and managing the risk of violence is a core task of professionals working in mental health and criminal justice services. Psychologists, psychiatrists, police, prison staff, managers, nurses, social workers, probation officers, judges are just some of the professions involved in minimizing risk of harm. Violence risk assessment constitutes a core task for practitioners working with offenders. It is essential that practitioners adhere to best practice in this complex and challenging task.

Dr. Hildebrand provides state-of-the-art training in a range of violence risk assessment tools for assessing risk for spousal assault (e.g., B-SAFER/SARA), child abuse (CARE-NL), general violence (HCR-20), sexual violence (SVR-20), as well as in the use of the Psychopathy Checklist-Revised (PCL-R) and the Psychopathy Checklist: Youth Version (PCL:YV). As well as being an experienced trainer, he is also familiar with the application and implementation of risk assessment to various real life settings, including forensic psychiatric hospitals, Child Protective Services, Dutch Probation Service etc.

Dr. Hildebrand also provides consultancy to organizations on all aspects of the design, delivery and implementation of risk assessment policies and practices.