CANFOR: Camberwell Assessment of Need - Forensic Version
Stuart Thomas, Mari-Anne Harty, Janet Parrott, Paul McCrone, Mike Slade and Graham Thornicroft
The Camberwell Assessment of Need – Forensic Version
(CANFOR) is a tool for assessing the needs of people with mental
health problems who are in contact with forensic services. It is
based on the Camberwell Assessment of Need, a widely used
needs assessment for people with severe mental health problems.
Needs are assessed in 25 areas of life and cover a broad range of
health, social, clinical and functional domains. Comprehensive
versions are available for research (CANFOR-R) and clinical use
(CANFOR-C), as well as a short summary version (CANFOR-S) suitable
for both research and clinical use.
CANFOR includes the rating scales, descriptions of
how they were developed and their psychometric properties,
administration details, a full training programme, guidance on
scoring and blank assessment forms (for all three versions
mentioned above) for photocopying.
CANFOR has been rigorously developed by a
multi-disciplinary team at the Institute of Psychiatry and is
suitable for use in all forensic mental health and prison
settings.
"This is a well thought out and clear manual for use by busy
practitioners working in adult forensic mental health
services."
Journal of Mental Health
Contents
Acknowledgements
List of abbreviations
1. Introduction
2. Needs assessment
3. Development of the Camberwell Assessment of Need – Forensic
Version (CANFOR)
4. Practicalities of using the CANFOR scales
5. Using the Camberwell Assessment of Need – Forensic Research
Version (CANFOR–R)
6. Using the Camberwell Assessment of Need – Forensic Clinical
Version CANFOR–C)
7. Using the Camberwell Assessment of Need – Forensic Short Version
(CANFOR–S)
8. Training for CANFOR
9. Frequently Asked Questions
10. References
Appendix 1: CANFOR–R (in form designed for photocopying)
Appendix 2: CANFOR–C (in form designed for photocopying)
Appendix 3: CANFOR–S (in form designed for photocopying)
Appendix 4: CANFOR–R and CANFOR–C assessment summary score
sheets
Appendix 5: Training overheads