James A. Reavis, Psy.D., is the director of two treatment programs in San Diego County, which together provide offense-specific treatment, risk appraisal, and forensic psychological evaluation to approximately 300 criminal offenders, whose crimes include general violence, domestic violence, sexual offense, stalking and child physical abuse.  He also supervises psychological interns  learning to work clinically with offenders.

 

Dr. Reavis specializes in the evaluation and treatment of criminal offenders, and conducts psychometric research on the nature and dynamics of offending behavior. He was the first treatment provider authorized by San Diego County Department of Probation to treat stalking offenders, and received the private bid contract to treat the highest risk sexual offenders in San Diego County, those adult males civilly committed to state hospital under California Welfare and Institutions Code 6600 and then released to the community under the legal designation Sexually Violent Predator.

 

Dr. Reavis is a founding member of San Diego Sex Offender Management Committee (SOMC), originally funded by the U.S. Department of Justice, and is the former chairman of the Treatment and Evaluation Committee of that group.  He has acted as a consultant to the National Institute of Mental Health, Department of Defense and United States Navy on the Psychopathic Personality.