Assessment
• Pre-sentence reports - psychological mitigating factors
• Risk assessment - sex offenders and violent offenders
• Treatment needs
• Cognitive functioning
• Mental health applications including section 14 and section 32 reports
• Drug and alcohol
• Mental health
Treatment
• Offender treatment – evidence-based sex offender and violent offender treatment
• Treatment for people with chronic and severe mental illness (psychotic disorders)
• Specific populations - forensic patients (APNCR, unfit to plea), offenders with cognitive impairment, offenders with dual diagnosis
• Trauma-focused, attachment-based approach
• Personality disorders
• Anxiety and mood disorders
• Substance abuse and other addictive behaviour
Supervision
We provide individual supervision, specialising in forensic psychology, for practitioners (psychologists, social workers, nurses, medical professionals, allied health professionals) working with clients with legal issues, challenging or complex presentations, clients with cognitive impairment, mental illness and other specific needs.
Our psychologists are also AHPRA-approved supervisors for all registration pathways as both primary and secondary supervisors, including for the forensic psychologist registrar program.