...James Tapp; Fiona Warren; Chris Fife-Schaw; Derek Perkins; Estelle Moore Purpose – The evidence base for what works with forensic patients in high-security inpatient settings has typically focused on outcome research and not included clinical expertise from practice-based experience, which...

... self-report knowledge at the start showed large improvements. Recorded levels of participation and understanding were lower than expected. Research limitations/implications – Group-based interventions in low secure settings can be developed from existing “what works” information. Such treatments...

..., and is largely what will be considered here. The paper concludes that low secure interventions need to capitalise on the evidence of ‘what works’ while revisiting key concepts such as ‘dose’ and responsivity in order to design appropriate treatments. Individual outcome evaluation needs to form part...