Evaluations

A comprehensive evaluation helps identify any mental health, substance use, or other concerns that an individual may need help with. It may be beneficial to the individual as well to any Agency who has requested the evaluation, to understand the nature and cause of any difficulties affecting daily functioning so that appropriate recommendations and treatments may be offered. 

Evaluations may assist with: 

• Preliminary Diagnosis
• Recommended/proposed treatment
• The manner in which treatment should be administered 
• Probable consequences of not receiving treatment 

The sex offense specific evaluation focuses on an individual’s sexual development, sexual history, paraphilia interests, sexual adjustment and recidivism risk level. The evaluation includes a full social and family history, employment / school history, case formulation, and specific treatment recommendations. In addition, a rather unique and critical component of the evaluation is the detailed and thorough sexual history, which includes the exploration of sexual development, attitudes, fantasies, and adjustment. To enhance the reliability, comprehensiveness, and usefulness of sex offense specific evaluations, multiple sources of data is taken into account.

A risk assessment examines whether an individual presents with characteristics that have been found through research to be significantly associated with re-offense risk and then estimates the probability that someone with that specific set of characteristics is likely to commit a new sexual offense. Along with the assessment of such static, or non-changeable, offender characteristics, a risk assessment may also measure the effects of dynamic, or changeable, conditions that may either mitigate or enhance the assessed risk probability.