Sarah-Jane O’Callaghan
Sarah-Jane O’Callaghan has experience of assessing risk of harm to others with adults with mental health issues, personality disorders, learning difficulties and those on the autistic spectrum. She has experience of structured clinical judgment in violent and sexual offending (including HCR-20v3; SVR-20; SAVRy; QACSO; SAPROF; PCL-R; VERA2-R; SOAP; SORAG; ERASOR; SRP; SARA). She has experience of capacity assessment and memory assessments. She has extensive experience of cognitive and psychological assessment and psychometric assessment (MCMI-III and IV; MACI; BAI; TOMM; MMPI-II; IPDE; PAI; WAIS-IV; Connors 3; Safari Fire setting; PANNS; TSI-2; ies-revised; ACE; NART; GSS; COPE; PCI; DES).
She has experience of assessment and treatment of anxiety, depression, complex trauma, psychosis and substance misuse.
She has prepared more than 200 reports for Social Services and Criminal Courts. These reports have covered the following areas:
- Cognitive and capacity assessments of adults
- Risk assessment of adults
- Psychological assessment of adults
- Assessment of neurodiversity, ADHD, Autism
Areas of specialism
- Assessment of Adults in community and Forensic settings
- Risk Assessment experience, violent and sexual offending
- Assessment of mental health problems, trauma, ASD, ADHD, personality disorders
- Experience of therapy 1-1 anger management with forensic mental health community clients
- Psychological therapy experience includes: CBT, CFT and schema therapy
- Experienced in working with DBT, mindfulness, MBT & providing clinical supervision
Profession: Psychologist
Courts or Tribunals: Criminal and Offending, Family Court
Age groups: Adult
Psychological Specialisms: ADHD, Autistic Spectum Disorder, Forensic, Learning Difficulties, Mental Capacity, Personality Disorder, Substance Misuse
Therapies offered: Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, CBT, Dialectic Behaviour Therapy, Mentalisation Based Therapy, Schema Therapy
