Training forensic clinicians to provide patient-centered care

Client-centered care, which emphasizes collaboration between clinicians and empowered consumers, is a model of care that has made only minimal inroads in the forensic arena. Many forensic clinicians view themselves more as agents of social control than as health care workers, which results in environments of care in which incarceration trumps rehabilitation. A novel training modality to modify the traditional values of a forensic hospital and introduce the values and principles of client-centered care is discussed.