title: [Staging with profiles in offence analysis: diagnostic steps in forensic psychiatry].
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Forensic psychiatry is concerned particularly with accurate risk-assessment of offenders’ future behaviour.
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  To describe a staging and profiling system that is applicable to mentally-ill patients who have committed an offence.
  
  
  METHODS
  The various steps in forensic psychiatric diagnosis are analysed and discussed.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Three diagnostic steps within a treatment trajectory are described: stage 1. psychiatric diagnosis; stage 2. the course of the trajectory; stage 3. supervision (i.e. protection from danger). Each step is divided into profiles.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  By means of staging and profiling, the treatment plan is integrated into a dynamic model in which each stage contains a set of activities that gradually lead to unique profiles and interventions which incorporate evidence for subsequent diagnostics.
authors.forename: H J C
authors.initials: HJ
authors.lastname: van Marle
mesh_terms: D015897:Comorbidity; D003415:Crime / Q000523:psychology*; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D017831:Diagnosis, Dual (Psychiatry); D005555:Forensic Psychiatry / Q000592:standards*; D006801:Humans; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000145:classification* / Q000175:diagnosis*; D018570:Risk Assessment