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01-12-2018 | Editorial
Thematic series CAPMH “Forensic Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health 2017”
Authors:
Cyril Boonmann, Jörg M. Fegert, Klaus Schmeck
Published in:
Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health
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Issue 1/2018
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Excerpt
Since the end of the last century, there has been an increasing focus on tailored assessment and treatment of juvenile offenders with psychiatric and psychosocial problems. These include, among others, forensic psychiatric evaluations in which the development of the juvenile is taken into account, psychotherapeutic treatment in forensic psychiatric centres for young offenders, as well as in an ambulatory setting, psychiatric support in juvenile prisons. This increased attention is also reflected in a steady increase in the number of scientific publications in the field of forensic child and adolescent psychiatry and psychology since the 1990s. …