Deck 21: Interventions for Offenders With Intellectual Disabilities

Question 1

Assessment procedures with individuals who have intellectual disability (ID) naturally have to be altered. Which of the features below is an important component of assessment with ID offenders?

A) All assessments must be adapted to simplify the concepts and language used therein
B) Both the items and response categories on questionnaires must be explained
C) Assessments will take the form of a structured interview, such that the respondents' emotional reactions to questions (as well as their actual responses) will be taken into consideration
D) All of the above

Answer 1

All of the above

Question 2

What have the clinical and research literature shown to be the two most common problems among offenders with intellectual disability (ID)?

Answer 2

Anger and aggression

Question 3

Sexually deviant behaviour that is precipitated by factors such as a lack of sexual knowledge and poor social and heterosexual skills, rather than inappropriate sexuality, is described as _______ .

Answer 3

Counterfeit deviance

Question 4

The Questionnaire on Attitudes Consistent with Sexual Offending (QACSO) is an example of a psychometric tool that has been developed to assess cognitive distortions among sex offenders with intellectual disability (ID).

Question 5

Which measure, which assesses the risk of fire-setting among people with intellectual disability (IS), consists of 14 descriptions of fire-related situations and asks respondents to rate how they feel using a seven-point scale?

A) The Pathological Fire-Setters Interview (PFSI)
B) The Fire Setting Assessment Schedule (FSAS)
C) The Fire Interest Rating Scale (FIRS)
D) Goal Attainment Scales (GAS)

Question 6

Treatment programmes that concentrate on appropriate problem-solving skills do not demonstrate a significant impact on reoffending amongst offenders with intellectual disability (ID).

Question 7

Reductions in self- and other-reported anger, aggression and reactivity and reductions in the physical manifestations of anger (e.g. incidents of assault) are benefits of anger management training with intellectually disabled offenders.

Question 8

What type/s of treatment have shown tentative evidence that they can reduce sexual offending behaviour among offenders with intellectual disability (ID)? (2 missing words):
Psychological treatments are based on ______ principles.

Question 9

CAT has been applied successfully in a treatment context with fire-setters who have intellectual disability (ID). What does CAT stand for?

Question 10

The treatment of anger has shown promise as part of wider treatment programmes for fire-setting behaviour in intellectually disabled offenders.