Violence Risk Scale - Sexual Offense Version

Dr. Stephen Wong, Ph.D. is Adjunct Professor, Department of Psychology, University of Saskatchewan, Canada and the Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, Australia and Fellow of the Canadian Psychological Association. His research focuses on the assessment and treatment of violent, sexual and psychopathic offenders. He is the lead author of the Violence Risk Scale (VRS) and the Violence Risk Scale- Sexual Offense Version (VRS:SO) and the Violence Reduction Program (VRP). He has published extensively in the areas of risk assessment, treatment and psychopathy; he also consults internationally with forensic mental health and criminal justice organizations. Dr. Mark Olver Ph.D. is a Full Professor and Registered Doctoral Psychologist at the University of Saskatchewan, in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada, where he is involved in program administration, graduate and undergraduate teaching, research, and clinical training. His research interests include offender risk assessment and treatment, young offenders, psychopathy, and the evaluation of therapeutic change. He provides training and consultation services internationally in the assessment and treatment of sexual, violent, and psychopathic offenders. Terry Nicholaichuk received his Ph.D. in clinical psychology from the University of Saskatchewan in 1987. He has worked as a psychologist, researcher and administrator in Canadian Corrections. His publications and research interests are in the areas of violence and sex offender assessment, sex offender treatment outcome and dynamic predictors of risk. He is currently an Adjunct Professor in the Psychology Department at the University of Saskatchewan. Audrey Gordon, M.Ed., R. Psych. is a Registered Psychologist and co-author of the Violence Risk Scale-Sex Offense Version (VRS-SO), Violence Risk Scale (VRS) and the Violence Reduction Program (VRP). Her areas of research and practice are in the assessment and treatment of violent and personality disordered offenders, as well as forensic program development. For 19 years she worked on a violent offender unit within a forensic psychiatric facility in Canada. As part of her private practice portfolio, she has provided risk assessment and treatment consultation services to numerous high-secure hospitals and prisons in Australia, Canada, Europe, New Zealand, United Kingdom and United States.