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Task 1

1. Hesitant because of a strong violation of personal values, hard to stay professional, especially if the crime strikes a nerve when their crimes have a personal effect.

2. Hard to stay professional, impartial, and objective. Cannot comprehend or understand the motivations of the perpetrator.

3. Hard to keep emotions in check, might end up being judgemental and flare out.

4. You start imprinting your client's tendencies on the people around you and start judging things less objectively. Might also be more empathetic in general to the scope of the crime

5. Become more paranoid, increase fear of loved ones becoming victims, and be more sensitive to warning signs of perpetrators.

6. Take a break, see them just like any other criminal, seek counselling, alcoholism, stay objective using tools, counsel in a pair, having a strong support system.

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1.
How do you feel about the idea of working with sex offenders?
- a bit nervous
- try to treat them like any other client / patient
- maybe also affected by the gender of the victim / gender of the therapist

2.
What would you find personally challenging about the work?
- not judging them
- staying impartial
- not using accusational language
- maybe similarities to your own life, e.g., the offender assaulting a child in the same age range as your own children / children in your familie

3.
How might these issues affect the way you work with sex offenders?
- try to treat them like any other client / patient
- not judging them
- staying impartial
- not using accusational language

4.
How might it affect your attitudes about other people?
- maybe becoming more vigilant
- more cautious ?
- looking for signs of potential abuse

5.
How might it impact on other areas of your life?
- looking for signs of abuse, also in potential victims who haven´t come forward just yet
- need to seperate work and private life: working closely with a limited group of offenders doesn´t mean they represent society as a whole and most people don´t become offenders in their life

6.
What would help you to cope with the difficulties in the work?
- counselling groups
- supervisor
- getting professional help if needed

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How do you feel about the idea of working with sex offenders?

May not feel comfortable with working with child sex offenders or sex offenders who are around our age

As females, it can be more uncomfortable because most sex offenders are male

We might have a stereotype on sex offenders and this could affect our judgement

What would you find personally challenging about the work?

The offender might find it difficult to open up about their thoughts, which will hinder the intervention process

If children are involved, it may be challenging especially if we have our own kids in the future.

Might judge them too harshly, cannot come to a neutral position

How might these issues affect the way you work with sex offenders?

They might not be able to be completely honest with us and these may affect the treatment

May not be able to establish trust with the offender because of personal issues towards him or not being able to be neutral

How might it affect your attitudes about other people?

May stereotype all males

How might it impact on other areas of your life?

We might become more wary around other males that we’re not close to

Might develop a heightened sense of caution especially when walking home alone

May put us at risk of mental health issues because of the weight of handling sex offense cases

What would help you to cope with the difficulties in the work?

Setting boundaries as to how frequent we work with sex offenders

Talking to colleagues about the struggles we face when dealing with such cases

Going for therapy if needed

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Working with sex offenders:

1) How do you feel about the idea of working with sex offenders?
- Fear for security
- Curious to know why they do what they do
- Anger based on their offense
- Inability to justify what they have done

2) What would you find personally challenging about work?
- Controlling your emotions
- Acceptance of crime would be low
- Trying to understand their mind state
- Challenging to have empathy towards them

3) How might these issues affect the way you work with sex offenders?
- Biasness towards them
- Fear/awkward when talking to them

4) How might it affect your attitudes about other people?
- Weaken stereotypical views of sex offenders (e.g., even innocent individuals can commit sexual crimes)
- More empathy for other sexual victims

5) How might it impact other areas of your life?
- Carry on negative emotions to personal life
- Increase in openness

6) What would help you to cope with the difficulties in the work?
- Supervisor that counsels/supports you
- Outlets to handle stress / Stress management

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Doge giving  a sexual offender  what he deserves (circa 2021 Colourised)

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1) Attempt to keep an open mind, tough it can be hard. Detachment of the situation in the interest of professionalism.  Privately or subconsciously  we may hold negative opinions on them.

2) How it would personally affect the therapist. The mere fact we have to work with a sexual offender requires us to manage our bias from the work at hand.

3) We may end up not doing our best to assist the sexual offender, and it affects our decisions we make and the advise we give.

4) We may become more suspicious of other and develop trust issues

5) our values may become more strong and robust , thus making it harder to change.

6) Therapy for the forensic psychologists and proper supervision from others.

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1. Mostly nervousness, anxiousness and what we might find out from their response.

2. Keeping it professional.

3. We will feel emotionally disturbed. Also, to keep an open-minded and unbiased point of view to help rehabilitate them and difficult to develop empathy with the client.

4. We will have a preconceive notion of the job from people around us.

5. More understanding to other people.

6. Talk to your peers, colleagues, superiors, therapist, etc. Go home and take a hot bath and relax. Take your time off from work.

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Q1. Neutral POV, maintain professionalism, and without judgement/discrimination/cynicism

Q2. Criminal justice system stresses too much on punishment, not so much on rehabilitation. It is important to analyse and report on the offender without any personal feelings. May be challenging to separate personal values with the case we are handling.

Q3. Our personal values may influence our behaviour and attitudes towards the offender i.e. the words we use towards them, the potential inaccuracy/style of reporting on the offender

Q4. Seeing things in new perspectives, trying to understand the possible causes for certain behaviours, be it positive or negative.

Q5. If you are able to have strong work-life balance, draw the line and not bring your work home, it should not affect your life too much.

Q6. Seek a therapist or a consultant about the difficulties you are experiencing at work. Must recognise early signs of burnout.

Activity 2
Denying Fault - The female did not fight back and remained quiet.
Denying Harm - He thought that they were both enjoying and he did not mean to hurt her etc.
Denying Offence, To Minimise - When he mentioned that there is no way that that could be rape as she scream or complain.

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1.
-Take caution towards the offender and be more critical about the statements they make.

2.
-One may find it challenging to empathize with them or become judgmental towards the offender.

3.
-The severity of their crimes influence your emotions and it might cause you to be less objective.

4.
-We might become more sensitive to the mannerisms of other people similar to the offenders
-We might see them as a lesser person

5.
-Might corrupt your perception of your own values should you empathize with the offender for too long.
-Change you into a guarded person
-Become a weary person
-Unable to be professional and allow it to influence your personal life

6.
- Consult a personal psychologist to keep yourself in check (self-care)
-Take breaks from projects

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Group 1 (Hao, Josephine, Sarah, Sindhu, Tianyi)

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Group 1 (Hao, Josephine, Sarah, Sindhu, Tianyi)

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Question 1.
We feel conflicted at the idea of working with sex offenders (SOs), after everything they did. Some of us would prefer not working with them entirely in order to avoid getting personal, but generally, though SOs' offend is/are disgusting and horrible, if placed in it, it is our job to help them rehabilitate and prevent unfortunate offend from happening again in the future; therefore, if we have to, we'll try to be open-minded and professional.

Question 2.
As previously stated from question 1, one of the major challenges when working with SOs for us would be trying not to get personal and emotional. Working with SOs also requires us to know about what they did IN DETAIL and thus, may be disturbing and unsettling for some of us. Another challenge is that we must find the appropriate treatment for the right type of SO. Some of the research on the topic and treatments for SOs have been inconclusive, making it harder to decide which type of treatment may be effective for them.

Question 3.
constantly have to try being non-judgemental and professional.

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Group 2 (Dylan, Gareth, Vania, Yun En, Sophie) 

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Group 2 (Dylan, Gareth, Vania, Yun En, Sophie) 

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1) We feel that it might be unsafe, and it might get a little uncomfortable for some female forensic psychologists. It might be quite difficult and hard to keep an objective mindset while working with these offenders, which might also depend on the severity of the crime. However, it is also interesting to learn and understand more from them, for example, understanding why they would commit such acts.

And even if we are can approach the situation objectively and have the desire to reform these offenders, other figures in the  justice system might not (rule out harsh punishments?), which could render our work pointless.

2) Hard to keep an objective mindset while working with them, affecting professionalism. Especially if it strongly goes against personal values.

3) May be biased in perspective. Distrustful even if they claim to be regretful of their actions.

4) It may result in being more cautious when dealing with other people.

5) It may give a new perspective upon learning the thought process of sexual offenders. Try to understand people and their circumstances before forming an opinion.

6) Trying to be more open minded(?) Objectivity would be the most important

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Group 3 (Felice, Lester, Qi Xin, Zhiming, Zongming)

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Group 3 (Felice, Lester, Qi Xin, Zhiming, Zongming)

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1. We all would feel quite uncomfortable because we won't feel safe. Even though it will be extremely difficult, we'll try to keep the conversation professional. We'll try not to judge them, and keep in mind that they're just sick people who need to be treated and we're there to help them.

2. Keeping the relationship professional. This means that we cannot judge them and should try to hold back our negative opinions.

3. It might distort our opinions towards them (could be biased), resulting in an unfair decision.

4. We might not trust other people as much as we would. We'll always be alarmed if there's physical touch.

5. We would be more cautious in our environment and always keep a lookout for red flags.

6. Should reflect on our very first goals on why we decide to be forensic psychologists, which is to understand the underlying psychological problems they might have, so we could refer them to necessary help.

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Group 4 (Alicia, Andrea, Aryan, Fu Mei, Yuci)

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Group 4 (Alicia, Andrea, Aryan, Fu Mei, Yuci)

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Question 1:

- will be hard to stay professional

- moral conflict as much as we want to help them, but would still view them in a biased lens and it might affect my judgement if we don't keep it in check

_ hesistant because it is not what we are used to seeing and i think it take a lot of courage to choose to take that profession, so i feel like we should not view it so negatively here

- will be found being cautious of them

Question 2:
- hard to stay objective and not biased
- concern about recidivism
- trying to look past the objective fact that they committed such a crime and work with them
- trying hard not to be judgemental

Question 3:
- Might give the wrong advise and end up being even more objective
- would be hard to treat them fairly and with complete professional conduct
- might be too harsh or unwilling to provide the best help

Question 4:
- maybe being more cautious, trust issues also may occur
- might be less receptive to different kinds of people
- might become very sterotypical

Question 5:
- becoming more fearful and our values maybe stronger now
- Might change my views on sex offenders because of their experiences, but it might be very hard to stay professional, to separate how we view things at work and personally
- it might stress out a lot, which would hinder other activities that we engage in, or might get into arguments a lot with others because of this
- being more aware of the people around us

Question 6:
- seeking help from a therapist or psychologist when needed
- talking to colleagues or supervisors to make sure we stay on the right track, and not fall into a pit of biasness
- we could put aside our preconceptions about sex offenders and actually hear them out, get help ourselves if we really struggle with acceptance, do more research on ways to help sex offenders
- learn to embrace that people make mistakes. However difficult to get rid of negative thoughts/biases, find a healthy way of releasing the mental tension

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Group 1 (Chang Xu, Cheryl, Jordan, Zuying)

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Group 1 (Chang Xu, Cheryl, Jordan, Zuying)

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1. Afraid, hesitant, uncomfortable due to the nature of their crimes. Personal values get in the way as there is the belief that sexual offences are disgusting. Moreover, depending on gender, we may wonder if we're a potential victim.

2. Difficulty in separating personal morals from professional duty. Sex crimes are emotionally charged and it is difficult compartmentalise our personal opinions and our duty to help the offender. Listening to their crimes in detail may be upsetting as well, especially if there is personal experience as a victim

3. We may not be able to be impartial or give the best help possible as we cannot separate our personal judgement of the offender from our job to work with them. Burnout is also an issue

4. It might make you more distrusting of others as it may humanise the offender, making you realise that such people may be around you and you don't realise. Noticing red flags, suspicious behaviours, telltale signs of sexual offenders in your friends or family etc.

5. We may also become less judgemental overall because working with sexual offenders humanises them.

6. If we truly cannot cope, we can remove ourselves from the situation. We can also talk to someone we trust, or a counsellor about the issues we face.

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Group 2 (Charlene, Jia Wen, Jingyuan, Yulong)

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Group 2 (Charlene, Jia Wen, Jingyuan, Yulong)

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1. Conflicted. Some of us might feel unsafe or uncomfortable with them. This is because we would have to remove our bias/preconceived notions towards sexual offenders when working with them and that might be difficult, especially if we might have had personal encounters.

2. Staying objective, managing our bias and overcoming our fears

3. These issues might make us appear judgemental. Additionally, our decisions might not be of the most help because we may just be acting on our bias, instead of actually addressing their problems.

4. We may be more suspicious, cautious or even afraid in dealing with other people

5. We may become more sensitised and paranoid regarding our handling of sexual offences, and our negative perceptions towards sexual offenders may be stronger

6. Seek a counsellor to address the issues faced at work and ease ourselves, do relaxation activities such as meditation, seeking social support

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1. How do you feel about the idea of working with sex offenders?

(Sarah) We feel that when any human is called to work with a sex offender, it may very likely make us have a 'negative' view of them based on the judgment we would naturally make as humans. But as a psychologist, we would have to choose to be professional and instead separate them from any stereotypical/unfair judgements and instead, see them as a patient/client in need of help and a mental health service. Also as a human, we must understand that it is a mistake they did in the past and they may very much likely not be that 'person' anymore. It is ethically and morally wrong as a psychologist, to negatively put a stereotypical judgment over them with our own personal views. We need to learn to separate our personal self and our professional self.

2. What would you find personally challenging about the work?

3. How might these issues affect the way you work with sex offenders?

I don't think any personally experience should affect professional work, but maybe I would still feel a little bit unwilling to go to work. because again I used to be sexual assaulted before, it wasnot too serious tho.

4. How might it affect your attitudes about other people?

If it was me I would be judgemental toward everyone haha.

5. How might it impact on other areas of your life?

Interacting with criminals brings negative influences to forensic psychologists' life. First, it's physically and mentally exhasting which leads to unhappy family life(?) They might become for causious toward other people, so it would be hard for them to make new friends, or more seriouly, lossing old relations.

6. What would help you to cope with the difficulties in the work?
In order to not be drained by all the difficulties, forensic psychologists should keep and open mind and be objective, but I guess that's not as easy as saying. Trying to keep a work-life balance is also important.