The Structured Assessment of Protective Factors for violence risk (SAPROF) was developed as an SPJ tool to assess protective factors for violence risk. The tool is intended to be used in addition to risk focused tools such as the HCR-20/HCR-20V3 or other SPJ (or actuarial) violence risk and/or sexual violence risk assessment tools. The SAPROF contains 17 empirically founded protective factors (internal, motivational and external), most of which are dynamic and thus changeable during treatment. Research results with the SAPROF in various international samples are promising for its predictive validity and clinical applicability for a wide range of forensic psychiatric clients