Center for Forensic Psychiatry

Center for Forensic Psychiatry
  • Type of Service:
    Psychological Intervention
  • Is this service available in-person or online?
    In person
  • Language:
    Croatian
  • Cost:
    Paid by Insurances
  • Delivered By:
    Psychiatrists
  • Offered By:
    Clinic for Psychiatry at the University Psychiatric Hospital Vrapče
  • Email Address:
    bolnica@bolnica-vrapce.hr
  • Phone Number:
    (+385 1) 3780 666
  • City:
    Zagreb
  • Country:
    Croatia

About the service:

A treatment service improving existing provision and developing new ways of protecting forensic psychiatric patients, reducing the duration of hospitalization, increasing the efficiency of rehabilitation, and enabling further social inclusion of forensic psychiatric patients

Who is this service for?

The services of I.T.E.R. are at present limited to the needs of offenders of sexual abuse. Our help programme offers concrete help as follows:
Admission and provision of information.
Consultation, psycho-criminalistic testing, symptom analyses, expertise.
Treatment and guidance specially devised for offenders:
In the legal context, reporting back to the counts.
In the non-legal context, reporting back to the referring
authority (e.g. Help Centre for Child Abuse, Committee for Youth Welfare).
Such help and guidance requested by the offender and his/her milieu.
Pre-therapy for clients still under sentence in prison.
System support with the function of a therapy for offenders.

How can the service be accessed?

A referral from a family doctor or internal referral from the Psychiatric Clinic is required. Patients must be eligible for health insurance.

To what extent is the service anonymous?

This service operates within medical patient confidentiality. Mandatory reporting laws are in place for all professionals in the country.