Erin K. Fuller

• Master of Arts
• PhD Student at Simon Fraser University

Section III of the fifth iteration of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5) includes an alternative model of personality disorder diagnosis that conceptualizes antisocial personality disorder as an interpersonal, rather than behavioral, construct. However, the diagnostic specifier for psychopathy has been met with recent...

The Structured Assessment of Protective Factors for Violence Risk - Youth Version (SAPROF-YV) is a new measure of protective factors. It is used with a risk-focused tool, such as the Structured Assessment of Violence Risk in Youth (SAVRY), to provide a more balanced and comprehensive assessment of violence risk in adolescents. Our study investigate...

The Comprehensive Assessment of Psychopathic Personality–Lexical Rating Scale (CAPP-LRS) is a self-report instrument designed to index psychopathy according to the CAPP psychopathy framework. Developed with the expressed goal of advancing the state of knowledge regarding the specific features of psychopathy, the CAPP model and associated instrument...

The Comprehensive Assessment of Psychopathic Personality (CAPP) is a lexically based conceptual model of psychopathy. Despite widespread use in research settings, the Lexical Rating Scale for the CAPP (CAPP-LRS) requires an advanced reading level for completion. The present study is the first to evaluate the content validity of the CAPP-Basic, a le...

The Comprehensive Assessment of Psychopathic Personality–Lexical Rating Scale (CAPP-LRS) is a self-report instrument designed to index psychopathy according to the CAPP psychopathy framework. Developed with the expressed goal of advancing the state of knowledge regarding the specific features of psychopathy, the CAPP model and associated instrument...

The Comprehensive Assessment of Psychopathic Personality (CAPP) is a recently developed conceptual model of psychopathy designed to index the disorder across 33 personality traits. Although recent research has evidenced support for the CAPP model with respect to the convergent, criterion, and predictive validity of CAPP instruments, little work has...

In this prospective study, we examined the association between three types of mental health symptom clusters (i.e., psychotic, internalizing, and externalizing) and the frequency and severity of violent-behavioral outcomes, and whether community disadvantage, residential instability, and criminogenic facility density moderated these associations. S...

In this prospective study, we examined the association between three types of mental health symptom clusters (i.e., psychotic, internalizing, and externalizing) and suicide-related behavior (SRB) and self-harm, and whether community disadvantage and residential instability moderated these associations. Psychotic and internalizing, but not externali...

School-based violence remains an important and developing area of inquiry in the violence risk prevention and threat assessment fields. In particular, teacher-directed violence has been a growing concern and numerous empirical studies have examined the prevalence of and implications associated with such acts (e.g., Dinkes et al., 2009; Reddy et al....

Although many risk assessment tools give professionals an opportunity to add case-specific factors, it is unclear if and how professionals use case-specific factors. Thus, we examined 292 SAVRY risk assessments conducted by Youth Probation Officers (YPOs). YPOs identified case-specific factors in 26.7% of cases. However, most case-specific factors...

Violence risk assessment and threat assessment research on school-based violence has remained relatively focused on student-to-student violence and bullying (Galand, Lecocq, & Philippot, 2007). However, there has been a recent shift towards studying the prevalence of violence directed towards teachers (e.g., Daniels, Bradley, & Hayes, 2007; Dinkes...

Amongst individuals with mental illness, rates of self-harm and suicide-related behavior (SRB) are higher compared to the general population. Studies have found that when dealing with distressing circumstances, people with psychiatric conditions often use less effective task-orientated strategies and more ineffective emotion-orientated coping. Poor...