TY - JOUR AU - Swinkels, L. T. A. AU - van der Pol, T. M. AU - Popma, A. AU - ter Harmsel, J. F. AU - Dekker, J. J. M. PY - 2020 DA - 2020/08/25 TI - Improving mental wellbeing of forensic psychiatric outpatients through the addition of an informal social network intervention to treatment as usual: a randomized controlled trial JO - BMC Psychiatry SP - 418 VL - 20 IS - 1 AB - Forensic psychiatric patients often suffer from a multitude of severe psychiatric and social problems. Meanwhile multimodal evidence-based interventions are scarce and treatment effectiveness is in need of improvement. The main goal of forensic psychiatric treatment is to address psychiatric and social factors and thereby mitigate criminal behaviour. Notably, a supportive social network is an important protective factor for criminal behaviour. As such, improving a poor social network may decrease the risk of criminal recidivism. This study aims to examine the effectiveness of the addition of an informal social network intervention (FNC) to treatment as usual (TAU) among forensic psychiatric outpatients. SN - 1471-244X UR - https://doi.org/10.1186/s12888-020-02819-2 DO - 10.1186/s12888-020-02819-2 ID - Swinkels2020 ER -