ReviewBJPsych open2021
Personal recovery and its challenges in forensic mental health: systematic review and thematic synthesis of the qualitative literature.
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28 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Quantitative Outcomes for Shared Assessment and Management in Forensic Mental Health: A Meta-Analysis and Systematic Review.Trauma, violence & abuse · 2026Pooled it
- Developing forensic patient-oriented research guidelines: a rapid review using an integrated knowledge translation approach.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2026Pooled it
- Identifying studies examining the validity of instruments for use as outcome measures in child and adolescent forensic mental health services: a systematic review.European child & adolescent psychiatry · 2025Pooled it
- Health promotion as relational, practical, and structurally constrained work in forensic psychiatric care: a qualitative study on registered nurses' experiences.International journal of qualitative studies on health and well-being · 2026Article
- Nurses' Perceptions of the Scope of Nursing Support for Offense-Related Self-Reflection Beyond Formal Programs and Dedicated Interviews in Japanese Forensic Psychiatric Care.Nursing reports (Pavia, Italy) · 2026Article
- Recovery in Mental Health: A Synthesis of the Perspectives of Experts by Experience, Recovery-Oriented Professionals and Family Caregivers in Relation to the CHIME and SPICE Frameworks.Health expectations : an international journal of public participation in health care and health policy · 2026Article
- What helps people with mental illness to function in daily life? Findings from a Delphi study.BMC psychiatry · 2026Article
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- Humanization of care in forensic mental health wards: a qualitative study.International journal of qualitative studies on health and well-being · 2025Review
- Personal recovery in mental health difficulties in people with experience of homelessness: qualitative systematic review.BJPsych open · 2025Review
- International developments in the provision of recovery-oriented care in forensic mental health services.World psychiatry : official journal of the World Psychiatric Association (WPA) · 2025Article
- The Experience of Prisoners with Serious Mental Disorders Participating in a Dog-Assisted Therapy Program: A Qualitative Study.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2025Article
- 'If one doesn't happen, the other will': forensic mental health service patients' experiences of co-occurring self-harm and aggression.BJPsych open · 2025Article
- Between rights and reality: patient perceptions of social inclusion in a forensic psychiatric clinic implementing safewards.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2025Article
- Understanding the Mechanisms that Operate within CHIME: A Realist Review Protocol.HRB open research · 2025Article
- Gratitude despite unease among Swedish male forensic psychiatric patients with substance use disorders: an interview study.International journal of qualitative studies on health and well-being · 2024Article
- The Spanish Adaptation of the Quality in Psychiatric Care-Forensic Inpatient (QPC-FIP) Instrument: Psychometric Properties.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Procedural justice and forensic mental health: An introduction and future directions.Medicine, science, and the law · 2024Article
- The meaning of the recovery process and its stages for people attending a mental health day hospital: A qualitative study.Health expectations : an international journal of public participation in health care and health policy · 2024Article
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Abstract
backgroundThere has been a call for a framework to guide recovery-oriented practices in forensic mental health services.
aimsThis study aims to examine personal recovery and its challenges in forensic mental health settings in relation to the established framework for personal recovery in mental illness: connectedness, hope, identity, meaning and empowerment (CHIME).
methodThis study is an updated and expanded systematic review and thematic synthesis of the qualitative literature. A systematic search of six electronic databases (Web of Science, Medline, PsycINFO, CINAHL, EMBASE and SocIndex) was carried out in January 2019, using the terms [Recover*] AND [Forensic OR Secure] AND [Patient* OR Offend* OR Service User*]. Only studies that included service user's own perceptions and were published from 2014 onward were included in the review. Data were examined with thematic synthesis and subsequently analysed in relation to the CHIME framework.
resultsTwenty-one studies were included in the review. Findings suggest that some adjustments to the original CHIME framework are needed for it to be more relevant to forensic populations, and that an additional recovery process regarding feeling safe and being secure (safety and security) could be added to CHIME, providing the CHIME-Secure framework (CHIME-S). Specific challenges and barriers for forensic recovery were identified and found to represent the opposite of the recovery processes defined by CHIME (e.g. hopelessness).
conclusionsWe present the CHIME-S as a framework for the personal recovery processes of forensic mental health service users. The CHIME-S may guide the recovery-oriented work of forensic mental health services.
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