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Forensic practitioners’ views on stimulating moral development and moral growth in forensic psychiatric care Universiteit Gent
In the context of debates on (forensic) psychiatry issues pertaining to moral dimensions of (forensic) psychiatric health care are frequently discussed. These debates invite reflection on the question whether forensic practitioners have a role in stimulating patients’ moral development and moral growth in the context of forensic psychiatric and psychological treatment and care. We conducted a qualitative study to examine to what extent forensic ...
Forensic Loci Allele Database (FLAD) : automatically generated, permanent identifiers for sequenced forensic alleles Universiteit Gent
The impact of forced forensic psychiatric confinement on composition and structure in the personal networks of personality-disordered forensic psychiatric patients KU Leuven
© 2018, © 2018 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This study explored to what extent the composition and structure of personal networks of personality-disordered forensic psychiatric patients changed before and after forced confinement in a forensic psychiatric centre. Semi-structured in-depth interviews with 36 patients and selected members of their networks were examined. During forensic psychiatric treatment, ...
How can forensic psychiatry contribute to legal and ethical controversies in society? What everybody should know about forensic psychiatry Universiteit Antwerpen
This chapter considers important topics in forensic psychiatry. First, several definition of forensic psychiatry are given and seven specialistic forensic skills are considered. Next, the relationship between various psychiatric disorders and violence is explained. Legal issues in the field of forensic psychiatry are explained. The importance of risk assessment and risk management is highlighted. Some major issues about correctional psychiatry ...
Forensic psychiatric treatment evaluation: The clinical evaluation of treatment progress with repeated forensic routine outcome monitoring measures KU Leuven
The likelihood of recidivism is considered to be the most important outcome measure in forensic psychiatry. Therefore, forensic psychiatric treatment focuses on the reduction of the risk of recidivism by treating dynamic risk and protective factors, aiming to reduce risk factors while enhancing protective factors during treatment. The goal of this study is to assess treatment progress with the Instrument for Forensic Treatment Evaluation (IFTE) ...
Routine Outcome Monitoring and Clinical Decision-Making in Forensic Psychiatry Based on the Instrument for Forensic Treatment Evaluation KU Leuven
BACKGROUND: Rehabilitation in forensic psychiatry is achieved gradually with different leave modules, in line with the Risk Need Responsivity model. A forensic routine outcome monitoring tool should measure treatment progress based on the rehabilitation theory, and it should be predictive of important treatment outcomes in order to be usable in decision-making. Therefore, this study assesses the predictive validity for both positive (i.e., ...
Trajectories of Dynamic Risk Factors During Forensic Treatment: Growth Trajectory of Clinical Risk Factors in a Sample of Dutch Forensic Patients KU Leuven
In this study, growth trajectories (from admission until unconditional release) of crime-related dynamic risk factors were investigated in a sample of Dutch forensic patients (N = 317), using latent growth curve modeling. After testing the unconditional model, three predictors were added: first-time offender versus recidivist, age, and treatment duration. Postanalyses were chi-square difference tests, t tests, and analyses of variance (ANOVAs) ...
Reconstruction and study of offending trajectories through forensic evidence : an illustration using a forensic DNA database Universiteit Gent
Virtual autopsy in forensic sciences and its applications in the forensic odontology KU Leuven
Nowadays, technological advances are becoming more and more important in forensic sciences. Yet autopsy is still one of the very traditional methods. This also applies for dental autopsies, in which visual, photographic and radiological evidences are collected. In this context, Virtual Autopsy appears as a helpful and complementary tool for dental and medical cadaveric examination. Using high-tech radiological approaches, Virtual Autopsy may ...