FMH PDP - Risk Assessment Workshops 2025 | RSVP-V2 and SRV-20-V2
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Risk assessment has become a dominant focus in forensic mental health practice. The appraisal of risk is particularly important in cases where one has committed sexual offences. Indeed, decisions regarding bail, sentencing, post-sentence supervision, detention, and the release of sexual offenders routinely requires a formal risk assessment to be conducted. However, in order for this to be more than a simple predictive activity, the results of any risk assessment should provide appropriate structure and guidance for those tasked with managing this risk in the community. One particularly useful approach to both the assessment and management of sexual violence risk is to utilise a Structured Professional Judgment (SPJ) approach.
The Risk for Sexual Violence Protocol – Version 2 (RSVP-V2) and Sexual Violence Risk-20 – Version 2 are the most recently developed updates to SPJ guidelines that were first developed in 1997. This two-day workshop will provide forensic practitioners with the knowledge and skills to effectively use the RSVP-V2 and SVR-20-V2 in applied practice. Participants will be provided with an overview of the SPJ decision-making approach, the differences between the two related instruments, an awareness of important updates and additions that were made during the revision process, and a thorough understanding of how to code each of the risk factors. They will learn how to use the SVR-20-V2 to assess risk for sexual reoffending, and how to use the RSVP-V2 the to assist in formulation, identifying likely risk scenarios, and developing robust risk management plans. This workshop is an opportunity to learn how to use the RSVP-V2 from two of its authors.
This online training will be delivered over two days, and a certificate of attendance will be provided at the conclusion.
It is the expectation that attendees of this training will purchase a copy of these manuals. You can purchase these manuals from a number of places, for example: https://protect-international.com/product/risk-sexual-violence-protocol-rsvp-v2-manual/ (RSVPV2) and https://shop.acer.org/svr-20-v2-user-s-guide.html (SVR-20 V2)
The Forensic Mental Health Professional Development Program Risk Assessment Workshops are delivered through the Centre for Forensic Behavioural Science. Learn more about the centre here.
Presenters
Dr Rajan Darjee - Adjunct Associate Professor at the Centre for Forensic Behavioural Science
Dr Rajan Darjee is a Consultant Forensic Psychiatrist, Clinical Director (Psychiatry) of Forensic Behavioural Assessment and Consultation Services (FBACS), and Adjunct Associate Professor at the Centre for Forensic Behavioural Science, Swinburne University of Technology. He trained and worked in forensic psychiatry in Scotland for twenty years before moving to Australia, where he initially worked at the Forensicare Problem Behaviour Program, before a role as Deputy Statewide Speciality Director of the Forensic Mental Health Service in Tasmania.
In Scotland he was the first mental health professional to be a Board Member of the Scottish Criminal Cases Review Commission (SCCRC), he was the National Clinical Lead for Multi-Agency Public Protection Arrangements (MAPPA) and Sexual Offending, and he was the first expert accredited by the Risk Management Authority (RMA) to assess risk in serious violent and sexual offenders being considered for indeterminate sentencing in the High Court of Justiciary. He has extensive experience assessing and treating people who have committed violence, homicide, and/or sexual abuse, and people with mental illnesses, personality disorders, developmental disorders and/or paraphilic disorders in criminal justice, clinical and legal settings. This includes assessments of people who have committed serious sexual and violent offences for post-sentence supervision and detention across multiple Australian jurisdictions. His current research is on sexual homicide, online child sexual abuse, and atypical homicide. He has written over 90 academic publications, including chapters in recent/forthcoming international textbooks on sexual homicide, online child sexual abuse, the problem behaviour model, pharmacological treatment of sexual offenders, sexual sadism, paedophilia, multi-agency management of high risk sexual and violent offenders, and serial murder. He is co-author of the Risk for Sexual Violence Protocol - Version 2 (RSVP-V2). He has been training professionals in using Structured Professional Judgement (SPJ) approaches to risk assessment and management for over 15 years.
Dr Michael Davis - Adjunct Research Fellow at the Centre for Forensic Behavioural Science
Dr Michael R Davis is a Consultant Forensic Clinical Psychologist in full-time private practice. He is an Adjunct Research Fellow with the Centre for Forensic Behavioural Science at Swinburne University of Technology, an Adjunct Senior Lecturer with the Department of Psychiatry at Monash University, and an Honorary Fellow with the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Melbourne (Australia).
Dr Davis is a Consultant to the Victorian Institute of Forensic Mental Health (Forensicare) and a Senior Consultant to the Children’s Court Clinic (Victoria). He was previously the National Chair of the College of Forensic Psychologists of the Australian Psychological Society. Dr Davis’ consulting practice is divided between forensic assessment tasks (particularly the assessment of risk, sexual deviance, and personality disorder) and providing behavioural investigative advice to police agencies. He has completed hundreds of risk assessments for the courts, government departments, and prosecution and defence lawyers over the course of two decades of practice. Dr Davis has consulted with police in several countries across three continents and is the only mental health professional in Australia to be elected to membership of the International Criminal Investigative Analysis Fellowship (ICIAF). He also serves as an Instructor to the Behavioral Analysis Unit of the FBI and is co-author of the Risk for Sexual Violence Protocol - Version 2 (RSVP-V2).
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