What is our core task?
Our core tasks are to develop and maintain a clinical research culture and to research and evidence-based clinical forensic psychiatry practice for the benefit of patients, relatives, and staff. Additionally, we provide research, staff education, and project guidance, including guidance of PhD students.
What is the purpose of our research?
Through patient-centered and practice-relevant research, our aim is to generate knowledge, develop, test and implement research in strategically selected areas, in order to evidence or research-based clinical forensic psychiatric nursing and treatment of forensic psychiatric patients in clinical practice.
To improve the quality of health interventions for and in close collaboration with forensic psychiatric patients, relatives, professionals, and other relevant national and international institutions.
What is our vision?
"A society is judged by how it treats its weakest."
We strive for significantly better treatment and care for the benefit of our forensic psychiatric patients, their relatives, and staff. Therefore, we want a research unit that performs thorough, systematic, massive, solid, and innovative research in a wide range of fundamental areas.
What are our research areas?
Our research areas for 2021 - 2025 are:
- Reduction of coercion
- Involvement of relatives and patients
- Prevention of criminalization and abuse
- Inequality in health
- Sexual crime and trauma research
