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23 J. Offender Rehab. 1 (1996)

handle is hein.journals/wjor23 and id is 1 raw text is: JournalolOtfenderfRehabilitation, Vat 23{f/2), 1996. Pp. I-10. * 1996by The Haworth Press, Inc. Allu rights reserved. o CONTROLLINGSELF-DIRECTEDAGGRESSION VALIDITY OF TWO MEASURES OF SUICIDAL RISK: MCMI-II SELF-DESTRUCTIVE POTENTIAL NOTEWORTHY ITEMS VS THE SUICIDAL RISK SCALE MARC HILLBRAND Whiting Forensic Institute and Yale University School of Medicine ABSTRACT The validity of the Suicide Risk Scale (SRS) and of the Self-Destructive Potential noteworthy items (SDP) of the Millon Clini- cal Multiaxial Inventory-I was examined in a sample of 32 forensic inpa- tients. Their sensitivity, specificity, positive and negative predictive power, and overall diagnostic power in discriminating patients with distant and recent suicidal behavior (i.e., low vs. high risk of future suicide) were computed. Both measures demonstrated good overall diagnostic power (> 75%). The SRS was the more efficient measure. [Article copies avail- ablefrom The Haworh Document Delivery Service: 1-800-342-9678. E-mail address; getinfo@haworth.com] Numerous measures purported to assess suicidal risk have been devel- oped in recent years (Weishaar and Beck, 1990). Some have been derived from the leading psychological instruments such as the Minnesota Multi- phasic Personality Inventory (MMPI), the Millon Clinical Multiaxial Inven- tory (MCMI) and the Rorschach. Others have been developed as single- purpose instruments such as the Suicide Intent Scale (Beck et al., 1974), the Scale for Suicide Ideation (Beck et al., 1979), and the Suicidal Risk Scale (Plutchik et al., 1989a). Most have received little empirical evalua- tion beyond their initial derivation. Of fifteen suicide risk measures