Synopsis
Intimate partner sexual violence
This half-day workshop will help practitioners to understand, assess, treat, and manage people who commit sexual violence against their intimate partners. It will include an overview of the prevalence and nature of intimate partner sexual violence, what is known about people who commit intimate partner sexual violence, and best practice in risk assessment and management. It will highlight that intimate partner sexual violence is targeted and often fuelled by grievance, which has implications for how it is conceptualised and managed. It will also examine the relationship between intimate partner sexual violence and homicide, including recent findings from research in the UK and Australia on intimate partner sexual homicide. It will be of interest to practitioners from mental health, police, criminal justice, legal or other professions or backgrounds who work with people who commit sexual violence and/or intimate partner violence.
Assessing and managing people with sexual sadism and violent sexual fantasies
This half-day workshop will equip participants with an understanding of sexual sadism and best practice and evidence-based approaches to assessment, treatment, and management. It is based on a chapter recently published by Raj Darjee and Mike Davis in Best Practices in Sexual Offender Assessment and Treatment. It will include training in how to apply an objective behavioural dimensional measure, the Sexual Sadism Scale (SESAS), when assessing people whose behaviour and offending appear to show aspects of sexual sadism. It will be of interest to practitioners from mental health, police, criminal justice, legal or other professions or backgrounds who work with people who commit sexual violence and/or present with sexually violent ideation/fantasies.
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Dr Raj Darjee
A consultant forensic psychiatrist in private practice and adjunct associate professor at the Centre for Forensic Behavioural Science at Swinburne University of Technology in Melbourne, Australia. He trained and worked in forensic psychiatry in Scotland for almost twenty years before relocating to Australia in 2018. He has extensive experience of assessing and treating people who commit sexual offences in legal, mental health and criminal justice contexts. He has authored a hundred academic publications on forensic topics and is co-author of the Risk for Sexual Violence Protocol Version 2 (RSVP-V2). His current research is on sexual homicide, online child sexual abuse, sexual offending risk assessment, stalking risk assessment, serial murder, paraphilic disorders, and atypical homicide.