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Papers

(The median citation count of International Journal of Forensic Mental Health is 2. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
‘You Still Need to Care for the patient’. Experiences of Forensic Mental Health Professionals with Inpatient Aggression	12
Being Humane in Inhumane Places: A Collection of Papers about Trauma-Informed Forensic Practice	11
Evaluating the Suitability of the Dynamic Appraisal of Situational Aggression for Māori in Forensic Mental Health Services in New Zealand: A Qualitative Descriptive Study, enhanced by aspects of Parti	10
Utility of the Fordham Risk Screening Tool (FRST) in an Alternative-to-Incarceration Program	10
Granted Leave in Bavarian Forensic-Psychiatric Hospitals	10
Community-Based Remediation of Juvenile Competence to Stand Trial: A National Survey	9
Are Hostility, Anger, and Aggression Involved in the Social Anxiety of Forensic Psychiatric Outpatients Convicted of a Violent Crime?	9
A Systematic Review of Participant and Facilitator Experiences of Restorative Justice Interventions in the Forensic Secure Estate	8
Clinical Services Addressing Violent Extremism: The Quebec Model	8
The Use of Simulation in Forensic Social Work Education: A Scoping Review	7
Trauma History in a Medium-Secure Adult Male Forensic Mental Health Setting	7
Construct Validity and Concordance of Clinician- and Patient-Rated DUNDRUM Programme Completion and Recovery Scales	6
Diversity in the International Journal of Forensic Mental Health	6
Substance Use in Forensic Assertive Community Treatment: Development and Implementation of a Pilot Project for Internees in Belgium	6
Assessment of everyday functioning in Swedish forensic mental health services	6
Patterns and Correlates of Inpatient, Emergency and Ambulatory Mental Health Service Contact for Forensic Patients Found Not Guilty by Reason of Mental Illness (NGMI) After Discharge from Secure Care	6
Understanding Women and Seclusion Use in a Forensic Mental Health Setting: A Retrospective Study	6
Practitioners’ Perceptions and Experiences of a Brief Joint Working Intervention Within the Offender Personality Disorder Community Pathway	5
Introducing the START:AV in Secure Youth Care: Illustration of a Structured Risk Assessment Implementation Process	5
“Prison Life Can Make You Go Crazy”: Insights Into the Situation for People With a Mental Illness in the Malawi Prison System	5
The Role Played by Theory of Mind and Empathy in the Feigning of Psychopathology	5
Knowledge and Opinions of Fitness to Stand Trial Elements in Australia	5
“No Safe Place to Call”: Perspectives and Experiences of Access to Mental Health Services by People Found not Criminally Responsible on Account of a Mental Disorder	5
Prisoners’ Experiences of Training and Working as a Peer Mental Health Mentor in an Irish Prison	5
Physical activity of inpatients under forensic mental health care: A mixed methods study of patient knowledge, preferences, practices and identified barriers	5

Adverse Childhood Experiences, Suicidality, and Aggression as Indicators of Polypharmacy Practice in Forensic Mental Health Systems	4
Mental Health Care in Nigerian Prisons: A Practice-Based Critique of the Current Legal Framework	4
“Containing the Network”: Referrers’ Experiences of the Community Forensic CAMHS Consultation and Liaison Model	4
Care Trajectories in the Ontario Forensic Mental Health System: Associations With Ethnoracial Status, Country-of-Birth, Citizenship, and Language Fluency	4
Trauma-Informed Care Practices in a Forensic Setting: Exploring Health Care Professionals’ Perceptions and Experiences	4
Not Criminally Responsible on Account of a Mental Disorder for a Homicide: Examining Gender Differences to Identify Opportunities for Early Prevention	4
Changes in Body Mass Index During Mandatory Forensic Psychiatric Care: Findings from a Long-Term (2009–2020) Cohort Study Based on Swedish Registry Data	4
Caring for Male Prisoners Who Self-Harm: Perceptions, Attitudes and Experiences of Custodial Prison Staff and Male Prisoners in England	4
Evaluating an Expedited Process to Assess Fitness to Stand Trial in Canada	3
Youth Experiences and Coping Strategies in a Correctional Facility During the 2023 Kahramanmaraş Earthquake in Türkiye	3
Correction	3
Understanding Trauma Symptoms Experienced by Young Men under Youth Justice Supervision in an Australian Jurisdiction	3
Faking Bad, Faking Good and the Dark Tetrad: Relationship Between Spontaneous Faking, History of Faking Behaviour, Propensity to Fake and Dark Tetrad	3
How Do Persons Found NCRMD and Identified as Indigenous Differ from Other Persons Found NCRMD: Profiles, Trajectories, and Outcomes	3
Systems and Processes that Enable Progress for Older Forensic Mental Health Patients	3
An Examination of a Modified START NOW Dialectical Behavior Therapy-Based Intervention and a Behavioral Level System on Male Inmate Misbehavior, Aggressive Behavior, and Suicide Precaution Status	3
Perceived Entrapment, Goal Adjustment and Goal Ambivalence as Predictors for Suicide Ideation in High-Risk Prisoners	3
Patient Participation in Pro Re Nata Medication in Forensic Psychiatric Care: Interview Study with Patients and Nurses	3
Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion in Forensic Mental Health: An Introduction to the Special Issue	3
The Integration of Risk Assessment and Risk Management: A Qualitative Interview Study of Dynamic Appraisal of Situational Aggression Use in Real-World Practice	3
The Different Functions of Self-Injurious Behavior Within an Inpatient Forensic Population	3
The Usability of WHODAS Self-Rating for Forensic Psychiatric Inpatients with Schizophrenia	3
At the Interface of Justice and Mental Health: Key Actors’ Perceptions of Involuntary Treatment Orders in Quebec (Canada)	3
Exploring the Psychosocial and Wellbeing Needs of Staff Accessing Trauma Support in Forensic Mental Health Services in the UK: Relations with Demographic, Occupational and Trauma Event Characteristics	2
Trauma Informed Organisational Consultancy and Staff Supervision in Forensic Services	2
Patterns of Mental Health Service Contacts for Young People Deemed Eligible for Court Diversion	2
Trauma-Informed Care Training in Forensic Mental Health Services: A Scoping Review	2
Staff perspectives of a violence intervention program in a forensic mental health hospital: Identification of environmental enablers and barriers to program implementation	2
The Meaningfulness of Grandiose and Vulnerable Narcissism in Forensic Mental Health Rehabilitation Practice: A Systematic Review	2
‘I was in a Jail within a Jail’: Prisoner's Experiences of Segregation within the Scottish Prison Service	2
‘The illusion of inclusion’: The Paradoxical Experiences of Patients, Carers and Staff Exposed to Violence and Aggression in Scotland and Northern Ireland's Forensic Mental Health In-Patient Services	2
Conducting Patient Oriented Research (POR) in a Forensic Psychiatric Facility: A Case Study of Patient Involvement	2
Stigma in forensic mental healthcare: An introduction to the special issue	2
Intersection between Justice-Involved Youth Personality Profiles and Criminal Risk-Need Patterns	2
Interpersonal Trauma, Gender, and Psychiatric Symptom Severity: Insights from Forensic Psychiatric Inpatient Data in Ontario, Canada	2
Testing Approaches to Mental Health Screening at Prison Entry, Considering Both Concurrent and Predictive Validity in Men and Women	2
Estimating the Effects of Secure Services on Reconviction. Part 1 – Predictive Validity of the Offending Groups Reconviction Scale (OGRS-2) and Redundancy of Patient Social and Clinical Features	2
Goals and Plans Card Sort Task: A Psychometric Assessment Tool to Measure and Support Life Goal Pursuits in People Who've Offended	2
Person-First, Recovery-Oriented Language and Public Attitudes Towards People in Forensic Mental Health Services	2
Physical Health and Activity of Inpatients under Forensic Mental Health Care: A Cross-Sectional Survey and Audit of Patients in a High Secure Setting in Queensland, Australia	2
Characterizing Contemporary Criminal Responsibility Evaluees Using the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory-2-Restructured Form (MMPI-2-RF)	2
A Study on Internalized Stigma in People Being Treated in a Forensic Psychiatry Hospital: The Example of Türkiye	2
Violence Prevention Climate in Civil and Forensic Mental Health Settings: Common Goal, Different Views?	2
Impact of Mental Health Court Diversion on Reoffending: A Direct Comparison of Diverted and Undiverted Groups	2
Effectiveness of Psychological Interventions for Incarcerated Individuals with Depression or Posttraumatic Stress Disorder: A Systematic Review	2
Circumstances Leading to and Characteristics of Belgian Forensic Patients Remitted to Prison	2
Roles of Families in the Forensic Mental Health System in Ontario, Canada: An Interpretive Phenomenology	2
A Secondary Data Analysis of Traumatic Brain Injury, Criminogenic Risk Factors, and Recidivism in a Correctional Reentry Sample	2