“If we only ask whether interventions help, then we risk missing when they harm…. Safer interventions require the same scientific attention to harms as we already give to benefits.”

That was the conclusion to Dr. Lindsey Gilling’s presentation to the International Forensic Psychiatry Lecture Series.

She provided recommendations for forensic mental health practitioners, researchers, funding agencies, and journal publishers to expand the science of effectiveness to include the science of safety.

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