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Lost in translation? Psychometric properties and construct validity of the English Essen Climate Evaluation Schema (EssenCES) social climate questionnaire
(2012)The social climate of correctional (forensic) settings is likely to have a significant impact on the outcome of treatment and the overall functioning of these units. The Essen Climate Evaluation Schema (EssenCES) provides ... -
Male Afro-Caribbean patients admitted to Rampton Hospital between 1977 and 1986--a control study
(1995)All Afro-Caribbean patients admitted to the Mental Illness Division of Rampton Hospital (a Special Hospital) between 1977 and 1986 and a randomly selected control cohort of Non Afro-Caribbean patients admitted in the same ... -
Management of a patient with a coccyx ulcer in a nursing home
(2017)Older people are at increased risk of developing pressure ulcers. They are also more likely to have comorbidities that increase the challenges of managing such a wound. This article reviews a complex case in which a ... -
Managing problematic anger: The development of a treatment program for personality disordered patients in high security
(2004)Anger can present as a significant component in the expression of aggression and violence. Anger management is one therapeutic approach that has recorded some success in reducing levels of anger. However, there is a lack ... -
The mask with three faces [In Press]
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Measuring health-related quality of life of care home residents, comparison of self-report with staff proxy responses for EQ-5D-5L and HowRu: protocol for assessing proxy reliability in care home outcome testing
(2018)INTRODUCTIONResearch into interventions to improve health and well-being for older people living in care homes is increasingly common. Health-related quality of life (HRQoL) is frequently used as an outcome measure, but ... -
Measuring motivation to change in offenders
(1998)Measuring motivation to change in offender populations is important both for selection into treatment programmes and for assessing progress in therapy. Two studies are reported in this paper, both looking at the psychometric ... -
Measuring the quality of life of people with severe and enduring mental health problems in different settings
(2002)Research has shown that quality of life (QOL) among people with severe and enduring mental health problems is better if they live in the community rather than in hospital. In the course of a study to replicate this result ... -
Mechanical restraint: Legal, ethical and clinical issues
(2016)The use of mechanical restraint as a means to manage the violent and/or self-injurious behaviour of psychiatric patients remains controversial, due primarily to this practice restricting freedom, and often being implemented ... -
Medicine, madness and murderers: the context of English forensic psychiatric hospitals
(2017)Purpose The purpose of this paper is to add to the understanding of context by shedding light on the relationship between context and organisational actors? abilities to resolve ongoing challenges. Design/methodology/approach ... -
Medico-legal reports and gatekeeping: One year of referrals to a forensic service
(2002)Forensic psychiatrists and the services they provide have been subject to recent scrutiny and high public profile. This study examined part of the work of a regional and district forensic service by looking at a one-year ... -
Meeting patients' needs in secure forensic psychiatric units
(2003)The authors have developed a security needs assessment profile designed to match the service provided in secure, forensic psychiatric units more accurately with the needs of individual patients. They are carrying out an ... -
Meeting the challenge of research while treating mentally disordered offenders: The future of the clinical researcher
(2009)Forensic mental health services must be theoretically driven and subject to sound research evaluation if they are to be maximally effective. People who are trained in both clinical and research skills are ideally placed ... -
Menopause and work: An overview of UK guidance
(2018)Background: Recent evidence suggests that some women experience menopausal symptoms that impact on their working lives, and that work environments can impact upon the experience of menopause. As a result, guidance for ... -
The mental health needs of older patients and older patients with cognitive impairment/dementia living in secure forensic-psychiatric settings
(2018)The population of older patients (i.e. 50 years old and above) in secure-forensic psychiatric settings has showed a dramatic increase over the last 20 years. In a study at Broadmoor Hospital in 1995 (Wong et al.), around ... -
Mental health/illness and prisons as place: Frontline clinicians' perspectives of mental health work in a penal setting
(2014)This article takes mental health and prisons as its two foci. It explores the links between social and structural aspects of the penal setting, the provision of mental healthcare in prisons, and mental health work in this ... -
Mentally disordered parricide and stranger killers admitted to high-security care. 1: A descriptive comparison
(2001)Parricide is an uncommon crime, so that many of the descriptive studies suffer from methodological shortcomings of small sample sizes and a non-representative ascertainment. We describe a consecutive series of mentally ...
