Forensic Treatment Services in the Czech Republic: Current State and Future Challenges

Abstract

In the Czech Republic, Forensic Treatment (FT) services consist of inpatient protective treatment (PT), outpatients treatment and secure detention (SD). Currently, there are 13 facilities providing inpatient PT; 386 clinics providing outpatient treatment and 2 SD. 950 patients receive inpatient and 2,300 outpatient treatment. 85 patients are currently in SD. Czech psychiatric care reform aims to separate the inpatient care from the rest of psychiatric care as well as create Protective Multidisciplinary Teams and services for minority populations. The whole system of care needs to implement risk assessment and adjust recovery management plans to indicated risks.

Keywords:

• Protective treatment
• risk assessment
• secure detention
• analysis

Acknowledgments

We want to thank all experts involved in the data collection (Hana Benesova, Taťána Skalická, Vladimír Smékal), other experts (Jiří Švarc, Pavel Zeman) and support from the Ministry of Health Psychiatry care reform team.

Conflict of interest

Authors declare that they have no conflict of interest. The funding agencies had no role whatsoever in identification, design, conduct, or reporting of the analysis.

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Funding

This work has been supported by The New Services Department, The Ministry of Health, CR, Project No. KA 5, Podpora nových služeb v péči o duševně nemocné, reg. No.:CZ.03.2.63/0.0/0.0/15_039/0008217. The report was also carried out in the framework of the Security Research Program of the Czech Republic for 2015–2021, commissioned by the Czech Ministry of Interior (no. VI20172019087). The paper presents certain preliminary results of the project. Supported also by the Charles University, project GA UK No. 474119.