The SAPROF - Youth Version (SAPROF-YV) was developed in 2014 as an altogether new tool specifically intended to offer a positive addition to juvenile and young adult violence risk assessment in forensic youth psychiatry (age 12-23). It contains 16 dynamic protective factors for juvenile / young adult violence risk.

The tool was originally developed in Dutch (first published November 2014), and shortly thereafter translated into English, Spanish, German and French.

The SAPROF-YV can be used to complement (predominantly) risk-focused assessment tools, such as the SAVRY, YLS/CMI or JSOAP, in order to create a more comprehensive and balanced risk assessment of future violent and/or sexually violent behavior for juveniles and young adults in forensic psychiatry. The SAPROF-YV may also prove useful for the assessment of protective factors in other settings (general psychiatry, probation services, detention, addiction care, education etc).

Please see the SAPROF-YV flyer for more information and an overview of the protective factors included in the tool.

The SAPROF-YV is now available in Dutch, English, Spanish, German and French! For more information regarding the different versions of the tool, please see the links in the menu on the left. Currently, translations into Italian, Finnish and Japanese are in preparation.

Upcoming SAPROF-YV workshops are posted on the Upcoming events page.

For questions regarding manuals please visit the Order manuals page.

Validation studies are currently ongoing in The Netherlands, Belgium, Switzerland, Germany, Spain, UK, US, Canada and Singapore. Preliminary results are promising.

For additional information regarding the SAPROF-YV you may contact the authors at: info@saprof.com.