ABSTRACT
This chapter describes up-to-date thinking around the assessment of sexual offenders in terms of what needs to be addressed in treatment. It focuses on motivation because of the importance placed on it in most treatment programmes. The chapter provides a more approach to the assessment for treatment of sexual offenders, as well as a more positive approach to treatment. The movement towards more positive approaches to treatment has highlighted the value of viewing assessment as more of a collaborative process than in other approaches. The chapter introduces two of these scales: the Juvenile Sex Offender Assessment Protocol-II and the Estimate of Risk of Adolescent Sexual Offender Recidivism. Assessment of mentally ill sex offenders can take place only when the individual’s mental state has stabilised. In determining an individual’s overall treatment needs, static actuarial assessments should always be combined with functional analysis and assessment of stable-dynamic factors.
