QUALIFICATIONS
Academic Qualifications and Professional Memberships
Therese holds a Bachelor of Behavioural Science, LaTrobe University; Graduate Diploma in Applied Social Psychology, Swinburne University; a Master of Psychology (Forensic), Monash University, and a Doctor of Philosophy (Forensic Psychology) from Bond University.
Therese is a full member of the Australian Psychological Society, a fellow of the APS College of Forensic Psychologists and holds full registration, with endorsement in forensic psychology, with the Australian Health Practitioners Regulation Agency (AHPRA).
Conference Presentations
‘Management Strategies for Sex Offenders on Community Based Orders.' International Conference on Treatment of Sex Offenders, Brisbane QLD.
'Sex Offenders with an Intellectual Disability - Prevention and Intervention Strategies.' International Association for the Scientific Study of Mental Deficiency, Brisbane QLD.
'Current Research Perspectives on Interventions with Sex Offenders.' Forum on Sex Offending - Facts, Fiction & Effective Management, Melbourne VIC 1992.
'Intellectually Disabled Offenders - Issues of Fitness to Plead, Competency and Disposition Planning.' 1993 Magistrates Conference, Melbourne VIC.
'Justice Issues for Offenders with an Intellectual Disability.' Legal Aid Commission Annual Conference, Melbourne VIC 1993.
'Community Corrections Sex Offender Programs - A Queensland Pilot.' Community Corrections in the 21st Century - Challenge, Choice & Change, Brisbane QLD 1996.
The Management and Treatment of Sex Offenders in Custodial and Community Corrections: The Queensland Model. Paper presented at the Management of Sex Offenders: An International Conference, in Perth, April 1996.
Conference Chair – 3rdAustralasian Conference of Paroling Authorities February 2001.
Psychologists and Cognitive Skills Programs in Community Corrections – What Works? Probation and Community Corrections Officers Association Conference – Perth, September 2002.
Understanding Arson in Australian Indigenous Communities – Treatment targets and Responsivity considerations. Australian and New Zealand Association of Psychiatry, Psychology and the Law (ANZAPPL). Canberra, 2015.
Offender programs - maximizing the benefits; minimising the mistakes. Closing the Prison Gap Conference, Kingscliff, October 2016.
Publications and Reports
Ellis-Smith, T., Watt, B. D., & Doley, R. M. (2019). Australian arsonists: an analysis of trends between 1990 and 2015. Psychiatry, psychology and law, 26(4), 593-613.
Hamburger, K., Downes, L., Ellis-Smith, T., Paget, J. (2018). Report of Papua New Guinea Correctional Service - National Prison Review. Brisbane: Knowledge Consulting.
Ellis-Smith, T. (2017). Firesetters: A review of theory, facts and treatment. In W. Petherick & G. Sinnamon (Eds). The psychology of criminal and antisocial behavior - Victim and offender perspectives.London: Elsevier Inc.
Hamburger, R K., Ferris, A., Downes, L., Hocken, J., Ellis-Smith, T. & McAllister, N. (2016). A safer Northern Territory through correctional interventions: Report of the Review of the Northern Territory Department of Correctional Services. Brisbane: Knowledge Consulting/BDO.
Ellis-Smith, T., & Doley, R. (2016). Suicide by self-immolation: Causal and contributing factors. In R. M. Doley, G. L. Dickens, & T. A. Gannon (Eds.). The Psychology of arson: A practical guide to understanding and managing deliberate firesetters. Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge.
Peach, F.; Ellis-Smith, T; Scott, D; Kane, M & Howe, C. Corrections in the Balance – A Review of Corrective Services in Queensland. A Commission of Inquiry. January 1999.
Capitelli-May, C; Palk, G; Ellis-Smith, T; Farris, R & Kennedy, M. Management of Offenders with an Intellectual Disability: A Community - Based Service Model. The Journal of the Australian Psychological Society, College of Community Psychologists, Vol11, No 1June 1997.
Ellis-Smith, T. (1995). Intervention and Management of Sex Offenders in the Community. Community Corrections in the 21st Century - Conference Proceedings Book 2.