The program uses a group therapy format, and is designed to fit into institutional work and job-site organization.
Participants report to work five days per week throughout the five-month program.
This article sets out the preliminary results of a recent research project that attempted to evaluate both the clinic's risk assessment process and the effectiveness of the clinic's approach to treatment. T he Warkworth Sexual Behaviour Clinic uses a relatively novel process for assessing offender recidivism risk. The pre-treatment assessment looks for a history of sexual offending, signs of deviant sexual arousal, a history of antisocial behaviour, and other indicators of antisocial personality and social competence problems. Research indicates that these four characteristics are predictive of recidivism among sex offenders. The assessment then considers offender motivation for treatment and their degree of behaviour change during treatment, to incorporate the offender's progress into the risk assessment.