The research is to investigate the situation and difficulty that professional personnel might have in executing psychiatric treatment and counseling to sex offender with intellectual disabilities. Participants are clinical psychologists, counseling psychologist, social worker, psychiatrist, psychiatric mental health nurse and related workers who attended “Effective treatment model for the sex offenders with mental disorders”. We received 111 valid questionnaires with response rate 97.4%. Our research shows : (1) About 80% of professional personnel claim it is uneasy to execute treatment and counseling to sex offender with intellectual disabilities due to weakness of their communication, express, comprehension and learning.; It is hard to evaluate treatment efficacy and recidivism rate; lock of treatment model and program to follow. (2) About 70% of professional personnel claim that psychiatric treatment and counseling workers are far from sufficient because of undefined assignment of duty, labor mobility, lack of workers in community supervision, track, and supervise system.(3) About 90% of professional workers realize it is necessary to have further education with professional training, including the traits of intellectual disabilities, techniques in curing, interviewing model and usage of assessment instrument. (4) Professional personnel suggest to provide training, better payment, deinstitutionalization, enhance the function of family, case tracking, interdisciplinary cooperation, indigenization. The researcher proposes possible policies, practice and researching field in the future according to the paper.

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