Speaker presentations for the 2019 ANZATSA Conference are available below from speakers who have given permission to share their slides.

2019 ANZATSA Program

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

Kathryn Mandla, National Office for Child Safety

Stephen Smallbone, Emeritus Professor Griffith University

Domestic Violence

Sexual Abuse Claims in the Family Court and the Expert Witness

Christopher Lennings OAM, LSC Psychology

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

Martin Bouse, STOP

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

Amanda Robertson, Griffith University

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

Brandon Wilson, Stop

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)

Carol Carson, The AIM Project

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

Nick Wilson, Office Chief PsychologistCorrections New Zealand & Randolph Grace, University of Canterbury

Trauma: A Child's Voice

A Child’s Voice: A Review of Practices for the Treatment of Complex Trauma

Rebecca Allen & Nicole Childs,

Innovations in Research 

Latent Structure and Covariates of the Agonistic Continuum among community sample and college students

Nicholas Longpre, University of Roehampton, Raymond Knight, Brandeis University & Jean-Pierre Guay, Université de Montreal

A Comparative Study of men arrested for Contact Child Sexual Abuse (CCSA) and men arrested for Child Exploitation Material (CEM)

Samuel Nicol, Griffith University

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

Sandi Brown, True Relationships & Reproductive Health

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

Carol Carson, Carol Carson Associates

Risk Communication

Is likelihood of sexual re-offending related to the amount of harm caused?

Mark Kebbell, Griffith University

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

Fernanda Mottin, WellStop

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

Natalie Walker, PartnerSPEAK

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

Heath Hutton, WellStop