“…Though a rapid reduction of beds in psychiatric hospitals generally has been witnessed internationally, there has been a significant increase in demand for forensic services (Hodgins, Müller-Isberner, & Allaire, 2006;JansmanHart, Seto, Crocker, Nicholls, & Cote, 2011;Priebe et al, 2005Priebe et al, , 2008. While the length of stay (LoS) in forensic inpatient mental health services has fallen, at least in some countries, and recovery principles have been applied to MDOs (Sugarman & Oakley, 2012), a number of patients still experience lengthy stays in forensic services, potentially at inappropriately high levels of security (Shah, Waldron, Boast, Coid, & Ullrich, 2011;Sharma, Dunn, O'Toole, & Kennedy, 2015;Shaw, Davies, & Morey, 2001).…”