Is Your Girlfriend or Wife Abusive? Take this Free Test and Find Out
MOSAIC has developed a series of questions designed to assess the risk that your partner or spouse will turn violent. Even though the questions use appropriate gender pronouns, the final report does not use gender-neutral wording.
The assessment is available free online at: www.mosaicmethod.comÂÂ
Here’s what part of a hypothetical report looks like:
MOSAIC is a computer-assisted assessment method that organizes and expresses research results and expert opinion in such a way that it can be directly applied to individual assessments. MOSAIC is not profiling, and it doesn’t predict the future. It can, however, improve the predictions people make.
Different MOSAIC systems have been used by police departments all over the country, as well as by the United States Supreme Court to assess threats to the Justices, by the U.S. Marshals Service for screening threats to judicial officials, by agencies protecting the governors of eleven states, and by more than thirty major universities.
This particular MOSAIC system was designed by many leading experts to enhance the safety and wellbeing of people affected by domestic violence, and to bring attention to factors and combinations of factors that might otherwise go unnoticed. You’ll see as you read that when everything is presented in one place, a clearer picture emerges.
Assessments are done by people -not by computers- and MOSAIC is just one part of your process. Your own intuition is every bit as important. It is not the purpose of this report to tell you what you should or should not do in your life. Rather, the purpose is to organize your own information in a way that helps you see and evaluate the possibility of danger in your relationship. Think of this report as a diagnosis rather than a prescription. It can show you where you are – so that you can choose the best course for yourself. This report will also offer resources to help you decide on that course.
ASSESSMENT RESULTS: 5 on a scale of 1 to 10
Based upon the information you have provided, and with a quality level of 148 out of a possible 200, this situation appears most similar to cases that -have- worsened and escalated. On a scale of 1 to 10 (10 being assigned to situations that have most of the factors experts associate with escalation), this situation is a 5. Some similar cases have escalated to include worsening abuse and substantial violence. Though not in the worst category of cases, this situation can escalate to the point that a future assessment would produce a higher number on the 1 to 10 scale. Accordingly, learn more about options and resources by contacting the National Domestic Violence Hotline: www.thehotline.org  or 1.800.799.SAFE (7233).
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