3-min GREAT Conversations - Purposeful Interactions for Meaningful Outcomes

ICPA2024 Presentation by Sarah Joseph and Theepan Ravintheran (ICPA2024-PID190)

Authors

Sarah Joseph

Senior Psychologist/ Assistant Director, SPS

Sarah Lavinia Joseph is an Assistant Director of the Programme Design and Evaluation Branch in the Psychological and Correctional Rehabilitation Division. Her team oversees the design, implementation and evaluation of psychology-based correctional programmes and prison regime-related initiatives. In both her current and previous positions, Sarah has extensive experience working with correctional officers to improve rehabilitative operations. She is also a trainer with SPS and trains correctional officers to run a group-based motivation programme for offenders. She deeply enjoys working with correctional officers and strives to improve her designed initiatives and training methods to best suit their needs.
By training, Sarah is a Senior Psychologist and obtained her MSc in Forensic Clinical Psychology from King’s College London. She undertakes forensic risk assessments and interventions with offenders with violent offences. She is also interested in working with substance abusers and is currently working on a longitudinal research on youths who abuse substances.

Theepan Ravintheran

Officer-in-Charge, SPS

Theepan Prakash Ravintheran is currently the Officer-in-Charge of B2 (Remand Prison) Medical Centre. He leads a team of officers in working with the appointed medical service provider to oversees the operations of the B2 Medical Centre and manage the inmates undergoing medical and / or psychiatric treatment at the facility. During his 15 years of service with the Singapore Prison Service (SPS), Theepan has worked with and engaged various categories of inmates to achieve operational outcomes and facilitate their rehabilitation. Theepan is also a Principal Trainer with SPS. He has trained correctional officers in the fields of corrections and leadership and coached fellow trainers to enhance their training competencies. By training, he had obtained a Master of Arts in Professional Education (Training & Development) from the National Institute of Education in Singapore.

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