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New videotape training program available from Sinclair Seminars!

“Sinclair and his colleagues have compacted, but never reduced, vast information into a program accessible to those with beginning and advanced skills alike. It is comprehensive, versatile and contains valuable information for treatment planning and decisions beyond formalized risk assessment.”

David S. Prescott, LICSW
In ATSA Forum, Summer 2000

Sex Offender Re-Offense Risk Assessment

12-hour videotape training program and 350-page manual which includes over 800 slides used in the video presentation, all of the non-copyrighted risk assessment instruments, relevant research articles and bibliographies

Presenters include:
R. Karl Hanson, Ph.D., Thomas Grisso, Ph.D., Douglas Epperson, Ph.D., Robert Prentky, Ph.D., David Thornton, Ph.D., Dennis Doren, Ph.D., Robert Hare, Ph.D., and Vernon Quinsey, Ph.D.

Price: $495.00 US / $725.00 CDN

Sinclair Seminars’ Sex Offender Re-Offense Risk Assessment videotape training program covers virtually every element of sex offender risk assessment and related legal and ethical issues. In this program, the developers of the leading sex offender re-offense risk assessment instruments and other experts:

  • Present the most recent and accurate methods to assess sex offender recidivism risk

  • Teach how to properly administer several empirically-validated risk assessment instruments

  • Demonstrate the scoring of three cases on the various instruments

  • Interpret the meaning of risk assessment instrument results

  • Instruct how to conduct sex offender re-offense risk assessment evaluations and how to report results

  • Impart skills in effective re-offense prediction forensic testimony

  • Discuss ethical issues in sexual re-offense recidivism prediction

Readers of ATSA’s recent pamphlet Risk Assessment (included in the manual) will recognize the RRASOR, Static-99, MnSOST-R, SONAR, VRAG and SORAG. In addition, the program includes Robert Prentky’s Juvenile Sex Offender Assessment Protocol (J-SOAP) and David Thornton’s Structured Risk Assessment (SRA). The SRA currently is available only in this program and in special training with Dr. Thornton.

Sex Offender Re-Offense Risk Assessment is relevant to a variety of professionals – including psychologists, psychiatrists, social workers, probation and parole officers, attorneys and judges – who need to assess sex offender re-offense risk.

Continuing Education credits for this home study program are available for psychologists. See Sinclair Seminars’ website for more information.

For further information, to order this program or to register for Sinclair Seminars’ training programs visit their website, www.sinclairseminars.com, or contact:

Sinclair Seminars
426 S. Yellowstone Drive
Madison, WI 53719-1051
Phone (608) 829-3880
Fax (608) 829-1422
Email: heather@sinclairseminars.com or kristi@sinclairseminars.com


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