ID: ACJ5-A004 02 Apr 2018

by Ms. Yasmin Ahamed, Zhihao (Paul) Yong, Rashida Mohamed Zain, Ke Xiu (Natasha) Lim

Advancing Corrections Journal - Edition #5 - Can Research Help Improve Practice? (ACJ5-A004)

Article 4: Pathological Personality And Violence Re-Offending-Findings And Applications From Singapore (ACJ5-A004)

Authors

Ms. Yasmin Ahamed

Assistant director, Singapore Prison Service

Yasmin Ahamed has been a psychologist with Singapore Prison Service for 10 years. She completed her Master of Psychology (Clinical) in the National University of Singapore in 2016. Yasmin has extensive clinical experience working with different offender populations including young offenders, offenders with violence and sexual crimes and offenders with mental health issues. In 2019, Yasmin co-wrote a chapter titled ‘Interventions for Sex Offenders who Target Child Victims’ that was published in the international book ‘Child Sexual Abuse: Forensic Issues in Evidence, Impact and Management’. The publication helps to share SPS’s expertise in the area of sexual offending rehabilitation. In addition to her clinical experience, Yasmin has embarked on research endeavours to help improve SPS’s rehabilitative efforts and conducts trainings for correctional staff and community stakeholders to upskill them to take on rehabilitative roles. In her current role as Assistant Director at the Programme Design and Evaluation branch, Yasmin overseas the designing, implementation and evaluation of rehabilitative efforts in SPS. Yasmin is passionate about leveraging on technology to drive rehabilitation efforts and has co-developed applications that enable inmates to engage in e-learning, tele-counselling and complete surveys on digital platform. She endeavours to push the boundaries to make learning fun, engaging and interactive for inmates and is actively reshaping inmates’ learning experience by experimenting with different modality of learning including digital, creative media and infusion of gamification.

Zhihao (Paul) Yong

Singapore Prison Service

Rashida Mohamed Zain

Senior Assistant Director, SPS

Ms Rashida is a Lead Psychologist in the Operational Psychology Branch of the Psychological and Correctional Rehabilitation Division. She oversees the mental wellbeing and crisis management for staff in the Singapore Prison Service. Trained in Clinical Psychology, she conducts clinical assessments and interventions for inmates, and therapy for SPS staff who require counselling support. Rashida is also a teaching associate at the Singapore University of Social Sciences where she teaches Forensic Psychology to undergraduate students.

Ke Xiu (Natasha) Lim

Singapore Prison Service

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