Speaker presentations for the 2019 ANZATSA Conference are available below from speakers who have given permission to share their slides.
Plenary presentations:
Case closed, then what? Recidivism, desistance and life course trajectories of young people with harmful sexual behaviours
Simon Hackett, Durham University
Long term vulnerabilities and short term change: understanding change and stability in sexual recidivism risk
David Thornton, Forensic Assessment, Training and Research
State of the Union re: Recommendations of the Royal Commission into Responses to Institutional Child Sexual Abuse
Garry Foster, Queensland Department of Child Safety
Domestic Violence
Sexual Abuse Claims in the Family Court and the Expert Witness
Challenges in Treatment
Mixing Oil and Water: The Path to Change in Correctional Therapeutic Environments in Victoria
Simone Shaw, Corrections Victoria
Putting change into practice: incorporating skills practice into treatment programmes for adults who have engaged in harmful sexual behaviour
Applying mindfulness to enhance treatment of sexual abusers: three strategic targets
Richard Ramsey, NYS Office of Mental Health, Division of Forensic Services
Understanding Sibling Abuse
The Many Sides of the Story: A Collaborative Interagency Response to Sibling Harmful Sexual Behaviour
Lisa Cassells, Renae Castle, New Street Sydney & Caroline Knight, Westemead Children’s Hospital
Using Environmental Criminology to Compare Sibling and Non- Sibling Sexual Abuse Incidents Perpetrated by Adolescents
Alexandra Bourke, Griffith University
Let’s Talk - A Joint Therapy Approach to Addressing Sibling Sexual Abuse
Linda Valenta, SAIFF - Support, Assessment & Intervention For Families
Female Perpetrated Sexual Offending
Gender Disparities in Sentencing Outcomes for Sexual Offenders
Amy Beeby & Tess Patterson, University of Otago
Evolution of practice with female sex offenders: understanding dynamics and management needs
Eliza Kirby, & Sally Oakley, Sex Offender Specialist Response Unit, Victoria Police
Applying a situational typology to female perpetrated institutional child sexual abuse
Children & Young People with Harmful Sexual Behaviours
Acceptance and Accountability: The Therapists Conundrum when working with Young People with harmful sexual behaviours
Catherine Ensor & Monica Robertson, Australian Childhood Foundation
Finding a bicultural path, helping traumatised youth who have hurt others
Understanding and working with children under 12 years old with problematic or harmful sexual behaviours – An introduction to the new AIM Assessment Framework and Intervention guidance (2019)
Navigating Risk
Offender Treatment, Statutory Schemes, Risk and the Control of Recidivism
John Tate & Zoe Rutherford, Crown Law, Department of Justice and Attorney-General
Risk Assessment of Registered Sex Offenders from a Policing Perspective: Validation of the SHARP
Kindalin Masters, Griffith University
Revision of the age weighting for the automated sex offender risk scale (ASRS) improvement in predictive accuracy across offense types for a New Zealand population convicted of sexual crimes
Trauma: A Child's Voice
A Child’s Voice: A Review of Practices for the Treatment of Complex Trauma
Innovations in Research
Latent Structure and Covariates of the Agonistic Continuum among community sample and college students
A Comparative Study of men arrested for Contact Child Sexual Abuse (CCSA) and men arrested for Child Exploitation Material (CEM)
Art Therapy in Indigenous Communities
Working Creatively with First Nations People
Donna Mahoney, True - Child and Family Service
Using and creating culturally responsive therapeutic tools
Autism Spectrum Disorder
Autism Spectrum Disorder and Sexual Offending
Joseph Sakdalan & Sabine Visser, Forensicare
Where on earth do you start? Risk assessing Sexual Behaviours of Adolescents on the Autistic Spectrum
Risk Communication
Is likelihood of sexual re-offending related to the amount of harm caused?
Treatment with Adolescents
Getting to know you: an attachment perspective on the power of language in shaping our attitude and approach towards young people with sexual behaviour problems
The logistics and complexities of keeping the victim’s experience alive in the treatment of sexually harmful behaviour in adolescents
Lynne Cossar, Miimi Morris & Alison Skehan, Rural New Street Hunter New England
Voices unheard
Examining the complexities of sexual offending in the transgender population
Nathan Brooks & Melinda Aldons, Queensland Corrective Services
Trauma experienced by non-offending partners is avoidable #metoo
Trends in Prevention
Sexual Violence and Secondary Prevention: An exploration of opportunities and barriers to implementing a secondary prevention approach to harmful sexual behaviour in New Zealand