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:
- CANSAS - short version for routine clinical and research use
- CAN-R - full research version
- 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:
- The adult CAN
- Rating the adult CAN
- Using the adult CAN clinically
- Using the adult CAN for research
- Translations
- Training
If your question is not answered here then you can email your question to can@iop.kcl.ac.uk.


