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Supported Decision-Making: Good Practice Guide (2016)
Report
Stavert, J. (2016). Supported Decision-Making: Good Practice Guide. Edinburgh: Mental Welfare Commission for Scotland

Supported decision-making maximizes an individual's ability to ensure that their rights, will and preferences are at the centre of all decisions that concern them...

Organic vs. functional neurological disorders: The role of childhood psychological trauma (2016)
Journal Article
Karatzias, T., Howard, R., Power, K., Socherel, F., Heath, C., & Livingstone, A. (2017). Organic vs. functional neurological disorders: The role of childhood psychological trauma. Child Abuse and Neglect, 63, 1-6. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chiabu.2016.11.011

Although the relationship between psychological trauma and medically unexplained symptoms (MUS) is well established, this relationship is less well understood in people with medically unexplained neurological symptoms. In the present study, we set ou... Read More about Organic vs. functional neurological disorders: The role of childhood psychological trauma.

From Childhood Trauma to Self-Harm: An Investigation of Theoretical Pathways among Female Prisoners: Childhood Trauma and Self-Harm in Female Prisoners (2016)
Journal Article
Howard, R., Karatzias, T., Power, K., & Mahoney, A. (2017). From Childhood Trauma to Self-Harm: An Investigation of Theoretical Pathways among Female Prisoners: Childhood Trauma and Self-Harm in Female Prisoners. Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy, 24(4), 942-951. https://doi.org/10.1002/cpp.2058

Despite empirical evidence suggesting complex associations between childhood trauma and self-harm, there is a dearth of research investigating this association in the female prison population. The current study explored pathways to self-harm followin... Read More about From Childhood Trauma to Self-Harm: An Investigation of Theoretical Pathways among Female Prisoners: Childhood Trauma and Self-Harm in Female Prisoners.

Depression and resilience mediate the relationship between traumatic life events and ill physical health: results from a population study (2016)
Journal Article
Karatzias, T., Jowett, S., Yan, E., Raeside, R., & Howard, R. (2016). Depression and resilience mediate the relationship between traumatic life events and ill physical health: results from a population study. Psychology, Health and Medicine, 22(9), 1021-1031. https://doi.org/10.1080/13548506.2016.1257814

We set out to investigate the mediating roles of depression, resilience, smoking, and alcohol use, in the relationship between potentially traumatic life events and objective and subjective, physical and mental health in a single study. A face-to-fac... Read More about Depression and resilience mediate the relationship between traumatic life events and ill physical health: results from a population study.

Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms mediate the relationship between substance misuse and violent offending among female prisoners (2016)
Journal Article
Howard, R., Karatzias, T., Power, K., & Mahoney, A. (2017). Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms mediate the relationship between substance misuse and violent offending among female prisoners. Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology, 52(1), 21-25. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00127-016-1293-5

Purpose
Despite empirical evidence suggesting complex associations between psychological trauma, substance misuse, and violent offending, there is a dearth of research investigating these associations in the female prison population.
Methods
A cro... Read More about Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms mediate the relationship between substance misuse and violent offending among female prisoners.

"It's just the abuse that needs to stop": Social worker decision making regarding sibling living and contact arrangements in cases involving sibling sexual behaviour (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Yates, P. (2016, September). "It's just the abuse that needs to stop": Social worker decision making regarding sibling living and contact arrangements in cases involving sibling sexual behaviour. Paper presented at NOTA Annual Conference

Somewhere between a third and a half of sexual abuse perpetrated by children and young people involves siblings as victims (Hackett et al., 1998; Ryan 2010). Sibling sexual abuse often requires very difficult decisions to be made regarding whether or... Read More about "It's just the abuse that needs to stop": Social worker decision making regarding sibling living and contact arrangements in cases involving sibling sexual behaviour.

Early maladaptive schemas in adult survivors of interpersonal trauma: foundations for a cognitive theory of psychopathology (2016)
Journal Article
Karatzias, T., Jowett, S., Begley, A., & Deas, S. (2016). Early maladaptive schemas in adult survivors of interpersonal trauma: foundations for a cognitive theory of psychopathology. European Journal of Psychotraumatology Supplement, 7(1), 30713. https://doi.org/10.3402/ejpt.v7.30713

Background
Although the association between psychological trauma and early maladaptive schemas (EMS) is well established in the literature, no study to date has examined the relationship of EMS to PTSD and psychopathologies beyond depression and anx... Read More about Early maladaptive schemas in adult survivors of interpersonal trauma: foundations for a cognitive theory of psychopathology.

Rurality and Suicide (2016)
Book Chapter
Stark, C., Riordan, V., & Dougall, N. (2016). Rurality and Suicide. In The International Handbook of Suicide Prevention (569-593). (2nd). Wiley

The Management of Dementia in the Workplace in the Public Sector in Scotland (2016)
Report
Egdell, V. (2016). The Management of Dementia in the Workplace in the Public Sector in Scotland. Edinburgh: Edinburgh Napier University Business School Research Funding 2015/16

The Scottish population is ageing. This will have a significant impact on the labour market, in particular on the greater need for employers to employ relatively more older workers (those aged 50 plus) and extend people's working lives – especially s... Read More about The Management of Dementia in the Workplace in the Public Sector in Scotland.

Using orthographic neighborhood size manipulations to investigate memory deficits in aging memory (2016)
Journal Article
Glanc, G. A., Logan, J. M., Grime, M., Anuwe, A., & Thompson, J. (2016). Using orthographic neighborhood size manipulations to investigate memory deficits in aging memory. Cogent Psychology, 3(1), Article 1220445. https://doi.org/10.1080/23311908.2016.1220445

In three previous studies, manipulations of orthographic neighborhood size and orienting task were used to differentiate between item-specific and rela-tional processing in young adults (aged 18–35) in standard recognition tasks. The current study at... Read More about Using orthographic neighborhood size manipulations to investigate memory deficits in aging memory.

Design and protocol for the Focusing on Clozapine Unresponsive Symptoms (FOCUS) trial: a randomised controlled trial (2016)
Journal Article
Pyle, M., Schwannauer, M., Norrie, J., Kingdon, D., Gumley, A., Turkington, D., Byrne, R., Syrett, S., MacLennan, G., Dudley, R., McLeod, H. J., Griffiths, H., Bowe, S., Barnes, T. R. E., French, P., Hutton, P., Davies, L., & Morrison, A. P. (2016). Design and protocol for the Focusing on Clozapine Unresponsive Symptoms (FOCUS) trial: a randomised controlled trial. BMC Psychiatry, 16(280), https://doi.org/10.1186/s12888-016-0983-6

Background

For around a third of people with a diagnosis of schizophrenia, the condition proves to respond poorly to treatment with many typical and atypical antipsychotics. This is commonly referred to as treatment-resistant schizophrenia. Clozap... Read More about Design and protocol for the Focusing on Clozapine Unresponsive Symptoms (FOCUS) trial: a randomised controlled trial.

Shared treatment decision-making and empowerment-related outcomes in psychosis: systematic review and meta-analysis (2016)
Journal Article
Stovell, D., Morrison, A. P., Panayiotou, M., & Hutton, P. (2016). Shared treatment decision-making and empowerment-related outcomes in psychosis: systematic review and meta-analysis. British Journal of Psychiatry, 209(1), 23-28. https://doi.org/10.1192/bjp.bp.114.158931

BACKGROUND:
In the UK almost 60% of people with a diagnosis of schizophrenia who use mental health services say they are not involved in decisions about their treatment. Guidelines and policy documents recommend that shared decision-making should be... Read More about Shared treatment decision-making and empowerment-related outcomes in psychosis: systematic review and meta-analysis.

Midwives’ experiences of asking the Whooley questions to assess current mental health: a qualitative interpretive study (2016)
Journal Article
McGlone, C., Hollins Martin, C. J., & Furber, C. (2016). Midwives’ experiences of asking the Whooley questions to assess current mental health: a qualitative interpretive study. Journal of Reproductive and Infant Psychology, 34(4), 383-393. https://doi.org/10.1080/02646838.2016.1188278

Backgound: Perinatal Mental Illness (PMI) is a key cause of maternal
mortality and morbidity in the UK, with one goal of midwives to
identify those at risk during pregnancy. At present, the system of
preliminary identification of existing PMI in t... Read More about Midwives’ experiences of asking the Whooley questions to assess current mental health: a qualitative interpretive study.

Mental Health and Well-being in the Learning and Teaching Environment (2016)
Book
Martin, C. R., Fleming, M., & Smith, H. (2016). Mental Health and Well-being in the Learning and Teaching Environment. Swan & Horn

Expertise from the two previously separate disciplines of education and mental health is combined in this book to examine the complex problems associated with today's high-stress, high-emotion learning and teaching environments - affecting learners a... Read More about Mental Health and Well-being in the Learning and Teaching Environment.

Mental health nurses' experiences of managing work-related emotions through supervision (2016)
Journal Article
MacLaren, J., Stenhouse, R., & Ritchie, D. (2016). Mental health nurses' experiences of managing work-related emotions through supervision. Journal of Advanced Nursing, 72(10), 2423-2434. https://doi.org/10.1111/jan.12995

Aim
The aim of this study was to explore emotion cultures constructed in supervision and consider how supervision functions as an emotionally safe space promoting critical reflection.
Background
Research published between 1995–2015 suggests superv... Read More about Mental health nurses' experiences of managing work-related emotions through supervision.

Clinical Supervision (2016)
Book Chapter
MacLaren, J. (2016). Clinical Supervision. In N. Evans, & B. Hannigan (Eds.), Therapeutic skills for mental health nurses (21-32). Open University Press

No abstract available.

These terrifying three words: A qualitative, mixed methods study of students' and mentors' understandings of ‘fitness to practise’ (2016)
Journal Article
Haycock-Stuart, E., MacLaren, J., McLachlan, A., & James, C. (2016). These terrifying three words: A qualitative, mixed methods study of students' and mentors' understandings of ‘fitness to practise’. Nurse Education Today, 43, 15-22. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nedt.2016.04.017

Background
There is little empirical published research pertaining to fitness to practise and pre-registration nursing students. Much of the existing fitness to practise literature focuses on medical students and there is a preponderance of literatu... Read More about These terrifying three words: A qualitative, mixed methods study of students' and mentors' understandings of ‘fitness to practise’.