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Developing an Intervention to Improve Occupational Participation for Justice-Involved People with a Personality Disorder: Defining and Describing Intervention Components (2021)
Journal Article
Connell, C., Furtado, V., McKay, E. A., & Singh, S. P. (2022). Developing an Intervention to Improve Occupational Participation for Justice-Involved People with a Personality Disorder: Defining and Describing Intervention Components. International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology, 66(6-7), 774-788. https://doi.org/10.1177/0306624x211013520

Occupational participation is undertaking personally meaningful and socially valued activities and roles. It is an important outcome for health and justice interventions, as it is integral to health and desistance. We report the third of a four-stage... Read More about Developing an Intervention to Improve Occupational Participation for Justice-Involved People with a Personality Disorder: Defining and Describing Intervention Components.

Reducing reoffending and improving health: Increasing occupational participation for people with criminal justice involvement and a personality disorder. (2019)
Presentation / Conference
Connell, C., Furtado, V., McKay, E., & Singh, S. (2019, October). Reducing reoffending and improving health: Increasing occupational participation for people with criminal justice involvement and a personality disorder. Paper presented at Fifth International Conference on Law Enforcement and Public Health, Edinburgh

External factors influencing length of stay in forensic services – a European evaluation (2019)
Journal Article
Connell, C., Seppänen, A., Scarpa, F., Gosek, P., Heitzman, J., & Furtado, V. (2019). External factors influencing length of stay in forensic services – a European evaluation. Psychiatria Polska, 53(3), 673-689. https://doi.org/10.12740/PP/99299

Objectives. A growing number of patients whose length-of-stay in forensic services is above average length are identifiable in several European countries. Forensic services are situated within a particular sociocultural setting. Accordingly, this tre... Read More about External factors influencing length of stay in forensic services – a European evaluation.

Recovery through work: service evaluation of the introduction of individual placement & support (IPS) services in secure mental health services (2019)
Presentation / Conference
Chambers, L., & Connell, C. (2019, June). Recovery through work: service evaluation of the introduction of individual placement & support (IPS) services in secure mental health services. Poster presented at Royal College of Occupational Therapists 43rd Annual Conference and Exhibition, Birmingham

Chambers, L., & Connell, C. (2019, June). Recovery through work: service evaluation of the introduction of individual placement & support (IPS) services in secure mental health services. Poster presented at Royal College of Occupational Therapists 43... Read More about Recovery through work: service evaluation of the introduction of individual placement & support (IPS) services in secure mental health services.

People with severe problematic personality traits and offending histories: What influences occupational participation? (2019)
Journal Article
Connell, C., McKay, E. A., Furtado, V., & Singh, S. P. (2019). People with severe problematic personality traits and offending histories: What influences occupational participation?. European Psychiatry, 60, 14-19. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eurpsy.2019.05.002

Background: Occupational participation is important for personality disordered offenders (PDOs) because it is integral to health and desistance from offending. What influences occupational participation is unknown for PDOs in the community, limitin... Read More about People with severe problematic personality traits and offending histories: What influences occupational participation?.

Outcomes of young people who reach the transition boundary of child and adolescent mental health services: a systematic review (2019)
Journal Article
Appleton, R., Connell, C., Fairclough, E., Tuomainen, H., & Singh, S. P. (2019). Outcomes of young people who reach the transition boundary of child and adolescent mental health services: a systematic review. European Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 28(11), 1431-1446. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00787-019-01307-7

When young people reach the upper age limit of child and adolescent mental health services (CAMHS), care should be transferred to an adult mental health service (AMHS) if they require ongoing support. However, many young people experience a significa... Read More about Outcomes of young people who reach the transition boundary of child and adolescent mental health services: a systematic review.

What influences social outcomes among offenders with personality disorder: A systematic review (2018)
Journal Article
Connell, C., Furtado, V., McKay, E. A., & Singh, S. P. (2018). What influences social outcomes among offenders with personality disorder: A systematic review. Criminal Behaviour and Mental Health, https://doi.org/10.1002/cbm.2082

Background: Personality disorder is highly prevalent in offender populations and is associated with poor health, criminal justice and social outcomes. Research has been conducted into factors that influence offending and health, but, in order to im... Read More about What influences social outcomes among offenders with personality disorder: A systematic review.

Effectiveness of mental health occupational therapy interventions in mental health: Advancing Research to develop the evidence base (2018)
Presentation / Conference
Connell, C., Inman, J., Birken, M., Bannigan, K., Morris, K., & Smyth, G. (2018, May). Effectiveness of mental health occupational therapy interventions in mental health: Advancing Research to develop the evidence base. Poster presented at World Federation of Occupational Therapists Congress, Cape Town, South Africa

This poster presented the need to improve and advance occupational therapy effectiveness research in mental health. It proposed the need to improve methodological quality, including descriptions of interventions and consensus on core outcomes and mea... Read More about Effectiveness of mental health occupational therapy interventions in mental health: Advancing Research to develop the evidence base.

How effective are interventions to improve social outcomes among offenders with personality disorder: a systematic review (2017)
Journal Article
Connell, C., Furtado, V., McKay, E. A., & Singh, S. P. (2017). How effective are interventions to improve social outcomes among offenders with personality disorder: a systematic review. BMC Psychiatry, 17(1), Article 368. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12888-017-1536-3

Background: Offenders with personality disorder are supported by health, criminal justice, social care and third sector services. These services are tasked with reducing risk, improving health and improving social outcomes. Research has been conduc... Read More about How effective are interventions to improve social outcomes among offenders with personality disorder: a systematic review.

The World Health Organization’s concept of participation: A proposal for assessing mental health and evaluating outcomes in real world settings (2017)
Presentation / Conference
Connell, C., Birken, M., & Inman, J. (2017, November). The World Health Organization’s concept of participation: A proposal for assessing mental health and evaluating outcomes in real world settings. Poster presented at European Network for Mental Health Service Evaluation (ENMESH), Groningen, the Netherlands

This poster proposed participation as an important outcome in mental health and the need for valid and reliable tools to measure it.

Advancing intervention effectiveness research in mental health occupational therapy (2017)
Presentation / Conference
Birken, M., Connell, C., & Inman, J. (2017, September). Advancing intervention effectiveness research in mental health occupational therapy. Poster presented at Royal College of Occupational Therapists Specialist Section: Mental Health, Birmingham

This work proposed that advancing to advance occupational therapy intervention effectiveness research there needs to be consensus on the description of interventions, outcomes and measures.

Occupational narratives to explore participation among offenders with personality disorder (2017)
Presentation / Conference
Connell, C., McKay, E., Furtado, V., & Singh, S. (2017, June). Occupational narratives to explore participation among offenders with personality disorder. Paper presented at RCOT Annual Conference 2017, Birmingham

Background: Offenders with personality disorder (PDOs) experience worse health and desistance outcomes than other offender and mentally disordered groups, prompting significant cross-government investment in the Offender Personality Disorder Pathway.... Read More about Occupational narratives to explore participation among offenders with personality disorder.

Improving positive community outcomes among offenders with personality disorder: The POPPED Project (2017)
Presentation / Conference
Connell, C., McKay, E., Furtado, V., & Singh, S. (2017, March). Improving positive community outcomes among offenders with personality disorder: The POPPED Project. Paper presented at British and Irish Group for the Study of Personality Disorder–18th Annual Conference, Inverness

Connell, C., McKay, E., Furtado, V., & Singh, S. (2017, March). Improving positive community outcomes among offenders with personality disorder: The POPPED Project. Paper presented at British and Irish Group for the Study of Personality Disorder–18th... Read More about Improving positive community outcomes among offenders with personality disorder: The POPPED Project.

What influences participation in prosocial occupation among offenders with personality disorder in the community, and how effective are current interventions? Two systematic reviews. (2017)
Presentation / Conference
Connell, C., Furtado, V., McKay, E. A., & Singh, S. (2017, March). What influences participation in prosocial occupation among offenders with personality disorder in the community, and how effective are current interventions? Two systematic reviews. Paper presented at British and Irish Group for the Study of Personality Disorder 18th Annual Conference, Inverness

Connell, C., Furtado, V., McKay, E. A., & Singh, S. (2017, March). What influences participation in prosocial occupation among offenders with personality disorder in the community, and how effective are current interventions? Two systematic reviews.... Read More about What influences participation in prosocial occupation among offenders with personality disorder in the community, and how effective are current interventions? Two systematic reviews..

Forensic occupational therapy to reduce risk of reoffending: a survey of practice in the United Kingdom (2016)
Journal Article
Connell, C. (2016). Forensic occupational therapy to reduce risk of reoffending: a survey of practice in the United Kingdom. Journal of Forensic Psychiatry and Psychology, 27(6), 907-928. https://doi.org/10.1080/14789949.2016.1237535

Forensic services are required to reduce an individual’s risk of reoffending. Despite being integral to forensic mental health services, the contribution of forensic occupational therapy to achieving this aim is unclear. This study describes current... Read More about Forensic occupational therapy to reduce risk of reoffending: a survey of practice in the United Kingdom.

An integrated case formulation approach in forensic practice: the contribution of Occupational Therapy to risk assessment and formulation (2014)
Journal Article
Connell, C. (2015). An integrated case formulation approach in forensic practice: the contribution of Occupational Therapy to risk assessment and formulation. Journal of Forensic Psychiatry and Psychology, 26(1), 94-106. https://doi.org/10.1080/14789949.2014.981566

Forensic services focus on risk reduction and extol the value of multidisciplinary working. Due to the complex relationship of personality disorder and risk, a multidisciplinary approach to risk assessment, formulation, management and reduction is es... Read More about An integrated case formulation approach in forensic practice: the contribution of Occupational Therapy to risk assessment and formulation.