Abbreviated BRACHA 0.9 Items and Response Options*
| Item | Abbreviated BRACHA Items | Response Options | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Previous psychiatric hospitalization or day treatment placement | □ Yes | □ No |
| 2 | School suspension or expulsion | □ Yes | □ No |
| 3 | Trouble accepting adult authority at home or at school | □ Little or none | |
| □ Some | □ A lot | ||
| 4 | Frequency of physical aggression toward others (e.g., hitting, kicking punching, biting, slapping, fights at school, throwing objects at others) | □ Never | |
| □ Occasionally | |||
| □ Often | |||
| 5 | Impulsiveness in the emergency department (e.g., often needing redirection, throwing objects, running out of the room, yelling at the interviewer, extremely talkative, etc.) | □ No Incidents | |
| □ One or more incidents | |||
| 6 | Intrusiveness in the emergency department (e.g., invading personal space, asking personal questions, etc.) | □ No incidents | |
| □ One or more incidents | |||
| 7 | Attempts to harm others or violent acts with intent to seriously harm others (includes all weapons use, even without injury, if used with harmful intent) | □ Never | |
| □ Once | |||
| □ More than once | |||
| 8 | Violent ideation towards others (i.e., thoughts, wishes, or desires to harm other people) | □ Never | |
| □ Occasionally | |||
| □ Often | |||
| 9 | Actual expressions of violent intentions or plans to hurt others (includes text messages and e-mails) | □ Never | |
| □ Occasionally | |||
| □ Often | |||
| 10 | Acts that intentionally destroyed property (e.g., breaking objects, vandalism, fire setting, making holes in the walls; does not include accidents or throwing things) | □ Never | |
| □ Occasionally | |||
| □ Often | |||
| 11 | Threats or physical aggression towards self or others in the past 24 hours | □ Yes | □ No |
| 12 | Pattern of either verbal or physical aggression towards self or others | □ Yes | □ No |
| 13 | Aggressive behavior before age 10 years (e.g. firesetting, destruction of property, stealing, trying to seriously hurt a person or animal, bullying, frequent fights; does not include lying) | □ Never | |
| □ Occasionally | |||
| □ Often | |||
| 14 | Signs of remorse (such as responsibility, shame, and/or guilt) after violence or aggressive acts | □ Not aggressive, or if aggressive, displays remorse, guilt, shame, or responsibility | |
| □ If aggressive, displays no remorse, guilt, shame, or sense of responsibility | |||
↵* A full version of the BRACHA 0.9 and scoring instructions may be obtained by contacting the first author.