Assessment Report: Management of a Sexual Offender

Running head: ASSESSMENT REPORT: MANAGEMENT OF A SEXUAL OFFENDER
Assessment Report: Management of a Sexual Offender
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Abstract
The aim of the following article is to provide a preliminary assessment report of Mr Smith, a
pathological sex-offender, to the treating psychologist based on his childhood history, past
criminal records and the status of his current life after incarceration from the Melbourne
Correctional Centre. The report proceed with excavating the underlying potential causes of
Mr. Smith’s distorted personality, his chances of recovery and what possible strategies can
the forensic psychologist use to build a positive engagement with Mr. Smith with an intention
to revive him. In the process of unearthing those strategies, the importance of undertaking a
risk evaluation, pertaining to Mr. Smith’s severity of criminal mindfulness, is also cited. The
report concludes with few viable suggestions for the treating psychologist for keeping herself
at bay from the potential risks of counselling a sex-offender.

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Table of Contents
Introduction................................................................................................................................3
Discussion..................................................................................................................................3
Details about Mr. Smith’s present circumstances and background relevant to his Treating
Psychologists..........................................................................................................................3
Information about Mr. Smith’s current severity of condition and possible resolution that
the Treating Psychologist can deliver to reduce the risk........................................................4
Ethical Issues to consider while treating Mr. Smith..............................................................5
Possible Strategies that the Treating Psychologist can use to build Engagement with Mr.
Smith......................................................................................................................................6
Issues of risk relevant to Treating Psychologist’s own well-being at workplace that he or
she should consider while treating Mr. Smith........................................................................7
Conclusion..................................................................................................................................8
References..................................................................................................................................9

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Introduction
In recent times, the prevalence of sexual offences have heightened to such an extent that
several ‘sexual-predator’ laws have been enacted to control its impact. Such enactments
subscribe to involuntary confinement of the sexual offenders interspersed with systematic
psychopathological treatment. The successful outcomes of these treatments are archived to be
referred to on later occasions for the purpose of future forensic psychiatric evaluation
(Schmucker & Lösel, 2015). It is accompanied by a comprehensive document of the
convict’s history in similar cases of offense, his or her sexual history, and verified
information regarding the deviant nature of his sexual arousal. The treating psychologist
takes the entire above transcript, thus prepared by the assessing psychologist, to study the
offender’s pattern of committing the sexual crimes and based on the findings, prepares a
treatment plan (Wright, 2014). The present report iterates a specific framework based on
assessment of Mr. Smith’s case study which would provide a definitive strategy to the
treating psychologist to undertake his care intervention.
Discussion
Details about Mr. Smith’s present circumstances and background relevant to his
Treating Psychologists
Mr. Smith was casually employed in one of his friend and housemate’s trucking
business just before his 18-months of incarceration at Melbourne Correctional Centre for
committing sexual offence. He lived an unrestrained life with no stable career or relationship.
After his incarceration was over, he had moved into the residence of one of his female friends
who had a stable job and no previous record of criminal offence. He was under the strict
observance of the Parole Officer and was instructed to participate in the sex-offender
treatment at regular intervals.