Month: October 2024

Shelley Turner1, Tobias Mackinnon2 1Forensicare, Yarra Bend Road, Fairfield, Vic 3078, 2Forensicare, Yarra Bend Road, Fairfield, Vic 3078 Abstract: Forensic risk assessment identifies risks of harm to inform treatment planning for transition from secure facilities to the community, and accounts...

Michael R Davis1 1Consultant Forensic Clinical Psychologist, PO Box 50, Doveton Vic 3177 Abstract State and Commonwealth Governments in Australia have enacted legislation that permits the post-sentence supervision and detention of terrorism offenders based on their assessed level of risk....

Dr Joseph Allan Sakdalan1, Dr Bonnie Albrecht1 1Forensicare Abstract: Schema therapy is an integrative therapy that can aid in the conceptualisation and intervention of the underlying belief systems (i.e., early maladaptive schemas) and socioemotional patterns (i.e., modes) of individuals who...

Izaak Lim1, Fleur Ward2, Nicole Milburn3 1Monash Health, 2Accredited Children’s Law Specialist, 3Clinical Psychologist in Private Practice Abstract: Professionals working with infants must grapple with a unique constellation of ethical challenges . For example, how does the infant’s dependence on...

Bernadette McSherry1 1Melbourne Law School, 185 Pelham Street, Carlton Vic 3053 Abstract Risk assessment is an important component of judicial decision-making in many areas of the law. In Australia, those convicted of terrorist offences may be the subject of continued...

Dr Niki Loft, Dr Kate McGregor, Dr Joseph Sakdalan Abstract: Individuals in forensic settings present with elevated rates of exposure to adverse experiences and trauma-related disorders. Childhood adversity and trauma exposure have also been linked to criminogenic needs within the...

Matthew Wilson1, Nicole Milburn2, Fleur Ward3 12020 Churchill Fellow, Winston Churchill Trust (Australia), 2Clinical Psychologist in private practice, 3LIV Accredited Children’s Law Specialist Abstract: Child protection jurisdictions throughout Australia (and internationally) are perpetually described as being in crisis, with yearly...

Andrew Carroll1 1Consultant Forensic Psychiatrist, PO Box 4085 Eaglemont VIC 3084 Abstract: In this presentation I will argue that the 'impact' of a feared 'harm' is an inherently value-laden social construct. I will further argue that the existence of the...

Nichola Tyler1, Troy McEwan2, Emma R. Barrowcliffe3, Lauren Ducat4, Theresa A. Gannon5, Robert Kinscherff6, Robert Stadolnik7, James R.P. Ogloff8 1Centre for Forensic Behavioural Science, 1/582 Heidelberg Road, Alphington, VIC, 3078, 2Centre for Forensic Behavioural Science, 1/582 Heidelberg Road, Alphington, VIC,...

Nicole Milburn1 1Clinical Psychologist in private practice Abstract: The embedding of the best interests of the child in Court proceedings has led courts to rely upon mental health professionals such as Psychologists and Psychiatrists to provide assessments of parents. Just...