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  1. Harm-reduction approaches for self-cutting in inpatient mental health settings: Development and preliminary validation of the Attitudes to Self-cutting Management (ASc-Me) Scale

    Article • Journal of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing, September 2018, Wiley

    Professor Geoffrey L Dickens

  2. Community-based mealtime management for adolescents with anorexia nervosa: A qualitative study of clinicians’ perspectives and experiences

    Article • August 2018, Wiley

    Professor Geoffrey L Dickens

  3. Systematic review of studies of mental health nurses’ experience of anger and of its relationships with their attitudes and practice

    Article • Journal of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing, February 2018, Wiley

    Professor Geoffrey L Dickens

  4. Risk assessment with the START to reduce risk outcomes

    Article • Criminal Behaviour and Mental Health, June 2017, Wiley

    Cevher Gunenc, Professor Geoffrey L Dickens

  5. Use of the HCR-20 for violence risk assessment: views of clinicians working in a secure inpatient mental health setting

    Article • Journal of Forensic Practice, May 2017, Emerald

    Professor Geoffrey L Dickens

  6. Reliable and Clinically Significant Change in Outcomes for Forensic Mental Health Inpatients: Use of the HoNOS-Secure

    Article • International Journal of Forensic Mental Health, March 2017, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Geoffrey L Dickens

  7. Nursing and midwifery students' encounters with poor clinical practice: A systematic review

    Article • Nurse Education in Practice, March 2017, Elsevier

    Professor Geoffrey L Dickens

  8. Qualitative investigation of the role of collaborative football and walking football groups in mental health recovery

    Article • Mental Health and Physical Activity, March 2017, Elsevier

    Professor Geoffrey L Dickens

  9. Care planning for aggression management in a specialist secure mental health service: An audit of user involvement

    Article • International Journal of Mental Health Nursing, July 2016, Wiley

    Professor Geoffrey L Dickens

  10. Response to Jackson, Hutchinson & Wilson (2016) Editorial: In defence of patients.Journal of Clinical Nursing

    Article • Journal of Clinical Nursing, June 2016, Wiley

    Professor Geoffrey L Dickens

  11. Role of assessment components and recent adverse outcomes in risk estimation and prediction: Use of the Short Term Assessment of Risk and Treatability (START) in an adult secure inpatient mental health service

    Article • Psychiatry Research, June 2016, Elsevier

    Professor Geoffrey L Dickens

  12. Performance of Protective Factors Assessment in Risk Prediction for Adults: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

    Article • Clinical Psychology Science and Practice, June 2016, Wiley

    Professor Geoffrey L Dickens

  13. Mental health nurses’ attitudes, behaviour, experience and knowledge regarding adults with a diagnosis of borderline personality disorder: systematic, integrative literature review

    Article • Journal of Clinical Nursing, May 2016, Wiley

    Professor Geoffrey L Dickens

  14. Interventions to improve mental health nurses’ skills, attitudes, and knowledge related to people with a diagnosis of borderline personality disorder: Systematic review

    Article • International Journal of Nursing Studies, April 2016, Elsevier

    Professor Geoffrey L Dickens

  15. The HCR-20 as a measure of reliable and clinically significant change in violence risk among secure psychiatric inpatients

    Article • Comprehensive Psychiatry, October 2015, Elsevier

    Professor Geoffrey L Dickens

  16. Characteristics that predict firesetting in male and female mentally disordered offenders

    Article • Psychology Crime and Law, August 2015, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Geoffrey L Dickens

  17. Re-focusing risk assessment in forensic mental health nursing

    Article • Journal of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing, August 2015, Wiley

    Professor Geoffrey L Dickens

  18. How short should short-term risk assessment be? Determining the optimum interval for START reassessment in a secure mental health service

    Article • Journal of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing, June 2015, Wiley

    Professor Geoffrey L Dickens

  19. Predictive validity of the HCR-20 for violent and non-violent sexual behaviour in a secure mental health service

    Article • Criminal Behaviour and Mental Health, June 2015, Wiley

    Professor Geoffrey L Dickens

  20. De-escalation: A survey of clinical staff in a secure mental health inpatient service

    Article • International Journal of Mental Health Nursing, May 2015, Wiley

    Professor Geoffrey L Dickens

  21. Prevalence and predictors of verbal aggression in a secure mental health service: Use of the HCR-20

    Article • International Journal of Mental Health Nursing, May 2015, Wiley

    Professor Geoffrey L Dickens, Cevher Gunenc

  22. Predictive validity of the START for unauthorised leave and substance abuse in a secure mental health setting: A pseudo-prospective cohort study

    Article • International Journal of Nursing Studies, May 2015, Elsevier

    Professor Geoffrey L Dickens

  23. Predictive Validity of the Short-Term Assessment of Risk and Treatability (START) for Aggression and Self-Harm in a Secure Mental Health Service: Gender Differences

    Article • International Journal of Forensic Mental Health, April 2015, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Geoffrey L Dickens

  24. The Predictive Validity of the Short-Term Assessment of Risk and Treatability (START) for Multiple Adverse Outcomes in a Secure Psychiatric Inpatient Setting

    Article • Assessment, February 2015, SAGE Publications

    Professor Geoffrey L Dickens

  25. Predictive validity of the HCR-20 for inpatient aggression: the effect of intellectual disability on accuracy

    Article • Journal of Intellectual Disability Research, February 2015, Wiley

    Professor Geoffrey L Dickens

  26. Differential predictive validity of the Historical, Clinical and Risk Management Scales (HCR–20) for inpatient aggression

    Article • Psychiatry Research, December 2014, Elsevier

    Professor Geoffrey L Dickens

  27. Predictive validity of the HCR-20 for inpatient self-harm

    Article • Comprehensive Psychiatry, November 2014, Elsevier

    Professor Geoffrey L Dickens

  28. ‘Going into the unknown’: Experiences of male patients in secure settings during environmental transition

    Article • International Journal of Mental Health Nursing, October 2014, Wiley

    Professor Geoffrey L Dickens

  29. Features and motivators of emotionally expressive firesetters: the assessment of women in secure psychiatric settings

    Article • Journal of Criminal Psychology, September 2014, Emerald

    Professor Geoffrey L Dickens

  30. Violence prevention in inpatient psychiatric settings: Systematic review of studies about the perceptions of care staff and patients

    Article • Aggression and Violent Behavior, September 2014, Elsevier

    Professor Geoffrey L Dickens

  31. Short-Term Assessment of Risk and Treatability (START): Systematic review and meta-analysis.

    Article • Psychological Assessment, September 2014, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Professor Geoffrey L Dickens

  32. Nurses’ views about unlicensed and off-license medicines in forensic mental health

    Article • Journal of Forensic Practice, August 2014, Emerald

    Professor Geoffrey L Dickens

  33. Medicines management: an interview study of nurses at a secure psychiatric hospital

    Article • Journal of Advanced Nursing, August 2014, Wiley

    Professor Geoffrey L Dickens

  34. Barriers to the reporting of medication administration errors and near misses: an interview study of nurses at a psychiatric hospital

    Article • Journal of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing, March 2014, Wiley

    Professor Geoffrey L Dickens

  35. Associations between ward climate and patient characteristics in a secure forensic mental health service

    Article • Journal of Forensic Psychiatry and Psychology, March 2014, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Geoffrey L Dickens

  36. Facial Emotion Processing in Borderline Personality Disorder: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

    Article • Neuropsychology Review, February 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Geoffrey L Dickens

  37. A Service Evaluation of a 1-Year Dialectical Behaviour Therapy Programme for Women with Borderline Personality Disorder in a Low Secure Unit

    Article • Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy, February 2014, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Geoffrey L Dickens

  38. A Firesetting Offense Chain for Mentally Disordered Offenders

    Article • Criminal Justice and Behavior, December 2013, SAGE Publications

    Professor Geoffrey L Dickens

  39. Prevalence of low bone mineral density in inpatients with traumatic brain injury receiving neurobehavioural rehabilitation: a postoperative, observational study

    Article • Physiotherapy, December 2013, Elsevier

    Professor Geoffrey L Dickens

  40. Aggression in specialist secure and forensic inpatient mental health care: incidence across care pathways

    Article • Journal of Forensic Practice, August 2013, Emerald

    Professor Geoffrey L Dickens

  41. Smoking behaviour, motives, motivation to quit and self-efficacy among patients in a secure mental health service: comparison with staff controls

    Article • Journal of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing, May 2013, Wiley

    Professor Geoffrey L Dickens

  42. Moderators of the predictive efficacy of the Historical, Clinical and Risk Management-20 for aggression in psychiatric facilities: Systematic review and meta-analysis

    Article • Aggression and Violent Behavior, March 2013, Elsevier

    Professor Geoffrey L Dickens

  43. Off-licence prescribing and regulation in psychiatry: current challenges require a new model of governance

    Article • Therapeutic Advances in Psychopharmacology, January 2013, SAGE Publications

    Professor Geoffrey L Dickens

  44. Causes and management of aggression and violence in a forensic mental health service: Perspectives of nurses and patients

    Article • International Journal of Mental Health Nursing, November 2012, Wiley

    Professor Geoffrey L Dickens

  45. Authors' response

    Article • The Psychiatrist, May 2012, Royal College of Psychiatrists

    Professor Geoffrey L Dickens

  46. A systematic review of the evidence of clozapine's anti-aggressive effects

    Article • The International Journal of Neuropsychopharmacology, February 2012, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Geoffrey L Dickens

  47. Recovery Star: validating user recovery

    Article • The Psychiatrist, February 2012, Royal College of Psychiatrists

    Professor Geoffrey L Dickens

  48. Labelling people who are resident in a secure forensic mental health service: user views

    Article • Journal of Forensic Psychiatry and Psychology, December 2011, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Geoffrey L Dickens

  49. Breakaways in specialist secure psychiatry

    Article • Journal of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing, September 2011, Wiley

    Professor Geoffrey L Dickens

  50. Potential severity of aggressive behaviour after acquired brain injury: implications for recording

    Article • Journal of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing, March 2011, Wiley

    Professor Geoffrey L Dickens

  51. A systematic review of the terms used to refer to people who use mental health services: User perspectives

    Article • International Journal of Social Psychiatry, February 2011, SAGE Publications

    Professor Geoffrey L Dickens

  52. HoNOS‐Secure: tracking risk and recovery for men in secure care

    Article • The British Journal of Forensic Practice, November 2010, Emerald

    Professor Geoffrey L Dickens

  53. Imitative suicide: an issue for psychiatric and mental health nursing?

    Article • Journal of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing, June 2010, Wiley

    Professor Geoffrey L Dickens

  54. An audit of the use of breakaway techniques in a large psychiatric hospital: a replication study

    Article • Journal of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing, November 2009, Wiley

    Professor Geoffrey L Dickens

  55. Recidivism and dangerousness in arsonists

    Article • Journal of Forensic Psychiatry and Psychology, October 2009, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Geoffrey L Dickens

  56. Physical assault by patients against physiotherapists working in mental health settings

    Article • Physiotherapy, September 2009, Elsevier

    Professor Geoffrey L Dickens

  57. Managing outcome performance in mental health using HoNOS: experience at St Andrew's Healthcare

    Article • Psychiatric Bulletin, July 2009, Royal College of Psychiatrists

    Professor Geoffrey L Dickens

  58. Dangerousness in firesetters: a survey of psychiatrists' views

    Article • Psychiatric Bulletin, March 2009, Royal College of Psychiatrists

    Professor Geoffrey L Dickens

  59. Prevention and management of aggression in mental health: An interdisciplinary discussion

    Article • International Journal of Therapy and Rehabilitation, August 2008, Mark Allen Group

    Professor Geoffrey L Dickens

  60. Trials and errors: accidents in administration

    Article • British Journal of Nursing, July 2008, Mark Allen Group

    Professor Geoffrey L Dickens

  61. Characteristics of low IQ arsonists at psychiatric assessment

    Article • Medicine Science and the Law, July 2008, SAGE Publications

    Professor Geoffrey L Dickens

  62. Interpretation and knowledge of human rights in mental health practice

    Article • British Journal of Nursing, May 2008, Mark Allen Group

    Professor Geoffrey L Dickens

  63. HoNOS-secure: A reliable outcome measure for users of secure and forensic mental health services

    Article • Journal of Forensic Psychiatry and Psychology, December 2007, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Geoffrey L Dickens

  64. Dose form modification – a common but potentially hazardous practice. A literature review and study of medication administration to older psychiatric inpatients

    Article • International Psychogeriatrics, August 2007, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Geoffrey L Dickens

  65. Gender differences amongst adult arsonists at psychiatric assessment

    Article • Medicine Science and the Law, July 2007, SAGE Publications

    Professor Geoffrey L Dickens

  66. An observational study of medication administration errors in old-age psychiatric inpatients

    Article • International Journal for Quality in Health Care, June 2007, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Geoffrey L Dickens

  67. Protecting patients in psychiatric care: the St Andrew's Human Rights Project

    Article • Psychiatric Bulletin, February 2007, Royal College of Psychiatrists

    Professor Geoffrey L Dickens

  68. A Review of Medication Administration Errors Reported in a Large Psychiatric Hospital in the United Kingdom

    Article • Psychiatric Services, December 2005, American Psychiatric Association

    Professor Geoffrey L Dickens

  69. Smoking in a forensic psychiatric service: a survey of inpatients’ views

    Article • Journal of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing, November 2005, Wiley

    Professor Geoffrey L Dickens

  70. Nurses' perceptions of the working environment: a UK independent sector study

    Article • Journal of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing, June 2005, Wiley

    Professor Geoffrey L Dickens

  71. Smoking and mental health nurses: a survey of clinical staff in a psychiatric hospital

    Article • Journal of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing, August 2004, Wiley

    Professor Geoffrey L Dickens

  72. The NHS, the private sector, and the virtual asylum

    Article • BMJ, November 2002, BMJ

    Professor Geoffrey L Dickens

  73. Absconding of patients from an independent UK psychiatric hospital: a 3-year retrospective analysis of events and characteristics of absconders

    Article • Journal of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing, December 2001, Wiley

    Professor Geoffrey L Dickens