Health Services Research
Recovery
Camberwell Assessment of Need (CAN)

Adults of working age with mental health problems

Versions of the adult CAN

Three versions of the adult CAN are available:

  1. CANSAS - short version for routine clinical and research use
  2. CAN-R - full research version
  3. CAN-C - full clinical version

To obtain a copy of all three versions, you will need to buy the adult CAN book.

In addition, a brief patient-rated version has been developed and evaluated, which can be downloaded here CANSAS-P - short self-complete version

Frequently asked questions:

If your question is not answered here then you can email your question to can@iop.kcl.ac.uk.

Additional CAN publicat