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


CONCLUSIONS
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.
Gleeson
John
J
Department of Psychology, The University of Melbourne and Northwestern Mental Health Service, Melbourne, Vic., Australia. jgleeson@unimelb.edu.au
Nathan
Pamela
P
Bradley
Gail
G
D000328:Adult; D000987:Antisocial Personality Disorder / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000523:psychology; D001315:Australia; D003131:Combined Modality Therapy; D003156:Community Mental Health Services; D003415:Crime / Q000517:prevention & control* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D003417:Criminal Psychology; D006801:Humans; D020380:Needs Assessment; D011329:Prisoners / Q000523:psychology* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D011613:Psychotherapy; D055502:Secondary Prevention