SAPROF - Child Version
The SAPROF-Child Version offers guidelines for the assessment of protective factors for serious problem behavior in children (6-15). Particularly for children focusing on protective factors is essential in risk evaluation. Assessing resilience, motivational, relational and external strengths in addition to risks offers a more comprehensive view of the child, offers hope, and inspires positive goal setting and intervention planning. The SAPROF-Child Version tool is relatively new and currently being adopted into child care practice in various countries.
SAPROF - Child Version
Common questions SAPROF-Child Version
Assessing protective factors for children
The Structured Assessment of Protective Factors – Child Version (SAPROF-CV) is an SPJ assessment tool specifically designed for the structured assessment of protective factors for serious problem behavior in children (including aggression, bullying, stealing, vandalism, truancy, defiance, lying and serious violation of rules). The tool has been developed to be used in addition to child risk assessment tools, such as the EARL-V3, that focus primarily on risk factors.
All 16 protective factors of the SAPROF-CV are dynamic in nature and therefore have potential to change during intervention. Positive intervention guidance goals can focus on strengthening these factors. Repeated measurement offers opportunities for strengths-based evaluation of intervention progress.
The adult and juvenile versions of the tool, the SAPROF and SAPROF-YV, have successfully been implemented in (forensic) practice in many countries around the world. A wide range of empirical studies show the potential additional value of protective factors for a more balanced and increasingly accurate risk assessment and for offering additional guidance to treatment. The child version of the SAPROF has been developed as an entirely new tool, based on extensive literature review of protective factors specifically for the prevention of serious problem behavior in children (6-15 years).
In addition to the prerequisite that the factors in the SAPROF-CV are empirically well grounded, it is considered vital that they are of practical value for supervision and intervention planning. During its development, experienced clinicians provided feedback on the gender and cultural sensitivity and practical applicability of the SAPROF-CV factors for children and their families from a broad range of cultural and socioeconomic backgrounds.
The SAPROF-CV may be useful for the assessment of protective factors in various settings, such as child intervention programs, supervision projects, school counselling, pre-trial assessments, (school) threat assessments, etc. The SAPROF-CV protective factors aim to predict for various forms of serious problem behavior, including non-violent criminality, self-harm, and other negative and positive community outcomes. The tool was originally developed in English and has yet to be translated into other languages.
Manuals, training, and electronic use
The SAPROF manuals are only available as paper books. They can be ordered from several bookstores, as well as directly from this website. Translations in various languages are also available from the translators. The books are printed in high quality with a spiral binder for easy and sustainable use.
Complementary to the comprehensive professional rated tools, additional SAPROF Self-assessment and SAPROF Network-assessment questionnaires are also available.
It is highly recommended to attend training in the use of the SAPROF before applying the tool in practice.
Training workshops can be attended on-demand online (available shortly) or by means of live online or in-person training. Through the workshop you will learn about protective factors and become familiar with the tool. You will practice coding the SAPROF, learn about integrating risk and protective factors and contemplate on drawing conclusions from the assessment and how this translates into positive treatment goals and risk management.
SAPROF or Risk Screener open training
345,-
Risk Screener 245,-Date and time to be announced!
- Dr. Michiel de Vries Robbé
Training SAPROF adult, youth, child or Risk Screener adult, youth - online live event
SAPROF in-company training
2000,-
Price for up to 8 participants + 85,- per additional participantDate and time to be announced!
- Dr. Michiel de Vries Robbé
SAPROF adult, youth, or child training for your organization
For organizations who wish to appoint their own in-house SAPROF trainers, a train-the-trainer program is being offered. If you would like to become a SAPROF trainer, please contact us for more information on the opportunities to attend the train-the-trainer program.
Embedding the digital SAPROF rating forms in local electronic patient filing system is possible through a license agreement with SAPROF international based on a fair use policy. Please contact us for inquiries in this regard.