
Clinician guide
How to Assess Risk, Safeguards, and Dignity of Risk
Assess benefits, credible hazards, uncertainty, safeguards, residual risk, values, authority, and outcomes without turning safety into a blanket veto.
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Clinician guide
Assess benefits, credible hazards, uncertainty, safeguards, residual risk, values, authority, and outcomes without turning safety into a blanket veto.

Clinician guide
Screen supporter conflicts, control, pressure, secrecy, retaliation, changed messages, and private confirmation while routing legal and safety concerns correctly.

Clinician guide
Assess access, information use, comparison, communication, time, support, and follow-through for one decision without assigning a global capacity label.

Clinician guide
Assess AAC, language, reading, motor, and supporter help while preserving the person's message, confirmation, correction, uncertainty, and decision authorship.

Clinician guide
Map decision information, real options, likely consequences, uncertainty, accessible comparisons, chosen supporters, and outcomes without testing memory.

Clinician guide
Define one supported decision-making question using the person's choice, accessible information, supporters, authority, privacy, risk, and real outcomes.

Clinician guide
Document self-advocacy evidence using message authorship, information access, partner power, authority, response, repair, privacy, denominators, and limits.

Clinician guide
Reassess self-advocacy after relationship and context changes using dated phases, message meaning, power, information, authority, access repair, and natural samples.

Clinician guide
Assess partner response and power using availability, recognition, authority, reasons, follow-through, retaliation risk, dependence, fit, and outcomes.

Clinician guide
Assess repair after an unhonored request using recognition, delays, denials, alternate channels, support, complaints, safety routes, and outcomes.

Clinician guide
Assess disclosure and privacy boundaries using person-selected scope, recipients, channels, authority, confidentiality limits, correction, withdrawal, and outcomes.

Clinician guide
Assess refusal and declining using person-defined messages, partner response, pauses, stops, change of mind, alternatives, privacy, safety exceptions, and outcomes.