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