Navigating Stormy Seas: Desensitization Strategies to Mitigate Re-Traumatization in Neurodivergent Juveniles in Correctional Settings

ICPA 2025 Presentation by Sayed Mawismi Sayed Mohamad Mustar (PID028)

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Sayed Mawismi Sayed Mohamad Mustar

Senior Associate Social Development Officer, Department of Social Welfare, Malaysia

With a background in Social Work, Psychology and Disability Studies, Sayed has been a practitioner for more than 15 years in the Correctional field both in institutionalized and community-based settings. Focusing on rehabilitation services for youths aged 14 to 21, he has been handling individual and family intervention, initiating community integration, managing, and delivering rehabilitation programs, and involving directly in policy making. He is currently integrating interdisciplinary knowledge of Adolescence Psychology, Criminology and Disability Studies in doing research on Youth Justice Systems, especially for youths with cognitive and intellectual impairments.

Sayed has been invited to be a panel in developing National Youth Rehabilitation Policy, specifically in drafting the Standard Operating Procedures for Community Services under Department of Social Welfare, focuses on children and youths conflicting with laws. He has been selected as Supervisor for delivering Community Services programs since 2017. He is also being elected as an auditor for Community Services implementation standard in 2018 and 2019. At the same, he is entrusted in addressing talks and sharing sessions focusing on the issues of Youth Correctional Settings as well as Neurodiversity in Malaysia and was invited by Malaysia Human Rights Commission to be one of the panelists to review on reintegration program of released prisoners to be integrated in the community. With relevant experience, he acquires an interest in becoming a researcher, emphasizing the development of proper, justifiable and effectual programs specifically on juvenile, those within neurodevelopmental divergent groups and people with disabilities within the justice system.

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