Forensic Mental Health

Forensic mental health research covers the understanding, assessment, and treatment of people with personality disorders, focusing on those who offend.

Our research interests include:

• understanding the links between personality disorder and dysfunction, including offending
  
• treatment design, development and evaluation
  
• prediction, management and treatment of violent behaviour
  
• social problem solving theory and therapy
  
• neurobiological bases of personality disorder
  
• assessment and treatment of alcohol-related violence
  
• anger in relation to violence
  
• antisocial and psychopathic disorders
  
• risk assessment and prediction
  
• readiness for treatment
  
• naturalistic follow-up studies examining the course of mentally disordered offenders
  
• assessing the evidence base for interventions for mentally disordered offenders
  
• organisational aspects of forensic services provision
  
• single case research methodologies