The need for the development and evaluation of preventive psychosocial forensic interventions in mainstream adult community mental health services

Abstract

Objective: This paper provides a selective review of forensic research with the aim of making recommendations for the development and evaluation of psychosocial interventions for the mainstream community mental health setting to address the needs of patients with a history of offending.

Conclusion: Mainstream community mental health services can be guided by existing findings in the design of psychosocial intervention and prevention programmes. There is growing need to develop and evaluate such interventions.

• community mental health
• dangerousness
• forensic psychiatry
• psychosocial interventions