Exam 21: Interventions for Offenders With Intellectual Disabilities

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

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.

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.

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?

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

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 _______ .

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).

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?

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

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