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CANFOR: Camberwell Assessment of Need - Forensic Version
By Stuart Thomas, Mari-Anne Harty, Janet Parott, Paul McCrone, Mike Slade and Graham Thornicoft
London: Gaskell (2003)
CANFOR is derived from the already well-known and widely used Camberwell Assessment of Need, but has been tailored collaboratively by the Institute of Psychiatry and the Bracton Clinic to meet the needs of forensic mental health populations. The format will be familiar to users of the Camberwell Assessment of Need, with a focus on evaluating a broad range of mental health and mental health-related needs.
In relation to forensic mental health the approach builds on the key recommendations of the Reed Report (DoH/HO,1992) which remain as pertinent today as...