Recent Publications

Sakdalan, J., Buchwald, K. & Visser, S. (2024). IQ thresholds and influence of the assessor’s professional discipline on fitness to stand trial assessment outcomes in Aotearoa New Zealand. Psychiatry, Psychology and the Law, 1-12. https://doi.org/10.1080/13218719.2023.2280525


Sakdalan, J.A. & Mitchell, B. (2023). Development of an Evidence-based Violence Rehabilitation Program for Offenders with Intellectual Disability. International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology (online ahead of print) doi: 10.1177/0306624X231176005


Sakdalan, J.A. & Maxwell, Y. (2022). The application of Adapted Dialectical Behaviour Therapy Concepts and Skills in the treatment of Adults with ASD who exhibit challenging of Offending Behaviours. Advances in Autism, 9(2), 132-149.


Buchwald, K., Williams, M. & Sakdalan, J. (2019). Effects of Presser and legislative criteria on classifying New Zealand’s fitness to stand trial court outcomes. Psychiatry, Psychology and the Law, 468-479.


Sakdalan, J., Kittner, G., & Judd, D. (2017). ASAP-ID: Substance use program for a forensic ID population. Journal of Intellectual Disabilities and Offending Behaviour, 8, 157-165.


Easden, M.H., & Sakdalan, J. (2015). Clinical Diagnostic Features and Dynamic Risk Factors in a New Zealand Inpatient Forensic Mental Health Setting. Psychiatry, Psychology and the Law, 22(4), 483-499.


Sakdalan, J. & Egan, J. (2014). Fitness to Stand Trial in New Zealand:  Different Factors Associated with Fitness to Stand Trial between Mentally Disordered and Intellectually Disabled Defendants in the New Zealand Criminal Justice System. Psychiatry, Psychology and the Law, 21(5)


Sakdalan, J. & Collier, V. (2012). Piloting an Evidence-Based Group Treatment Programme for High Risk Sex Offenders with Intellectual Disability in the New Zealand Setting. New Zealand Journal of Psychology, 41(3), 5-11


Sakdalan, J, & Gupta, R. (2012). Wise Mind-Risky Mind: A Reconceptualisation of Dialectical Behaviour Therapy concepts and its application to sex offender treatment. Journal of Sexual Aggression (DOI:10.1080/13552600.2012.724457).


Sakdalan, J., Shaw, J., & Collier, V. (2010). Staying in the Here-and-Now: A pilot study on the use of dialectic behaviour therapy for forensic clients with intellectual disability. Journal of Intellectual Disability Research, 54(6), 568-572.


 

PRESENTATIONS

  1. 1. One-day training workshop on Working with neurodivergence in forensic settings and oral presentations on Schema therapy in sexual offender treatment, EMDR in forensic settings, DBT for Autistic Adults with Offending Behaviours, IQ thresholds and fitness to stand trial in New Zealand (November 2024). 42nd Australian and New Zealand Psychiatry, Psychology and the Law Congress, Melbourne, Australia.


  1. 2.One-day training workshop on Neurodiversity Affirming Forensic Assessment and Treatment and oral presentations on DBT for Autistic Adults with Offending Behaviours, Violence Reduction Program for Offenders with Intellectual Disability, IQ threshold and fitness to stand trial in New Zealand. (June 2024). International Association of Forensic Mental Health Service (IAFMHS),  San Francisco, USA.


  1. 3.One day training workshop on the Development of Violence Rehabilitation Program for Offenders with Cognitive Impairment, International Association of Forensic Mental Health Service (IAFMHS), June 2023.


  1. 4.Presented Papers and Symposiums in the areas of Family Violence, use of DBT within sex offender treatment, use of DBT on clients with Autism Spectrum Disorder, implementation of a substance use program for offenders with intellectual disability. 17th Conference on Offenders with a Intellectual Disability and/or Developmental Disability, Birmingham, UK (11 and 12 April 2018)


  1. 5.Symposiums on the Use of Effort Testing, Female Sex Offenders and Treating the Untreatable at the Australian and New Zealand Association of Psychiatry, Psychology and the Law (ANZAPPL) Conference, Auckland, NZ (24-26 November 2016)


  1. 6.Symposiums on Suggestibility and Psychological Vulnerabilities within the Criminal Justice System, Sex Offender Risk Assessment, Treatment , Management and Innovations in Forensic Intellectual Disability and a paper on the use of SAPROF with ‘untreatable’ patients. International Association of Forensic Mental Health Services (IAFMH) Conference, New York, USA (21-23 June 2016)


  1. 7.Symposiums on Assessment of Sexual Deviance and Suggestibility and Psychological Vulnerabilities within the Criminal Justice System. European Association of Psychology and the Law Conference, Nuremberg, Germany (4-7 August 2015)


  1. 8. Suggestibility and Issues around Cognitive and Psychological Vulnerabilities within the Criminal Justice System.  ANZAPPL Conference, Sydney, Australia (November 17 - 12, 2014)


  1. 9.Sexual offender risk assessment with forensic mental health and intellectually disabled offenders: How do risk assessment findings inform treatment and risk management within the forensic psychiatry setting? The Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists, Hongkong (August 12-15, 2014)


  1. 10.Symposium on Human Rights in Fitness to Stand Trial; Symposium on  Treating the ‘Untreatable’: Forensic Mental Health Clients with Personality Disorders. ANZAPPL Conference, Adelaide, Australia (November 28-30, 2013)


  1. 11.Symposium on Evolving Clinical Practice on Fitness to Stand Trial Evaluations; Workshop entitled Fit or Unfit?: Evolution of Fitness to Stand Trial Assessments; The process of review and change implementation in a forensic mental health hospital; Wise Mind – Risky Mind: Reconceptualisation of DBT and its Application to Sex Offender Treatment. ANZAPPL Conference, Melbourne, Australia (November 23-25, 2012)


  1. 12. Wise Mind-Risky Mind: A Reconceptualisation of Dialectical Behaviour Therapy in Sex Offender Treatment. NOTA  Conference, Brighton, UK (28-30 September 2011)