A narrative of recovery in forensic hospitals.

Aim: Concerns about the applicability of recovery orientation to forensic care have surfaced due to the traditionally restrictive practices associated with forensic institutions. We interviewed 19 experts-by-experience and 18 professionals working with them across five Finnish forensic hospitals and one out-patient clinic to describe how they define recovery in forensic.

Methods: We utilized semi-structured, one-on-one interviews and then analyzed the collected data using structural narrative analysis.

Forensic Psychiatric Patients' Experiences of Personal Recovery: A Wilsonian Concept Analysis.

Psychiatric patients' recovery processes have been studied rather extensively, and a relatively clear consensus on what recovery is already exists. We examined whether the personal recovery of forensic psychiatric patients varies from this definition. We conducted a concept analysis to assess the personal recovery of patients in forensic psychiatric hospitals based on 21 articles and then evaluated how our results compared with existing definitions on psychiatric and forensic recovery.