...Selim Polat; Şengül Kocamer Şahin Purpose In forensic psychiatric communities, internalized stigma and interpersonal violence pose significant obstacles. It has been proposed that spiritual orientation may be a protective factor affecting psychological health and behavioral consequences...

...Alexander Challinor; Olayemi Sadiku; Bayode Shittu; Julie Carlisle; Louise Robinson; Rajan Nathan Purpose The assessment and management of violence risk is integral to a patient’s care pathway in secure mental health care. Risk assessment tools, such as the Historical Clinical Risk-20 (HCR-20...

...-harm. Women prisoners Interpersonal trauma Self-harm Violence Prison Compassion focused therapy The population size for this research was limited due to the psychological intervention being in the pilot stages. Therefore, this study focused on the experiences of the two therapists who were...

... and useful points of analogy for violence risk assessment in mental health care. Design/methodology/approach The purpose of this paper is to describe key learnings for violence risk assessment research and clinical practice by drawing on similar concepts from the risk industry frameworks and standards...

... Authors Aims Type of incident Setting Study methods Study findings Bekelepi and Martin (2022) Qualitatively explored nurses’ experiences of patient violence Violent behaviour Secure psychiatric hospitals A semi-structured interviews assessed nurses’ experiences of being assaulted...

...Kara Kennedy; Stephan McAlpine Purpose Previous difficulties were identified with the evaluation of violence interventions, resulting in gaps in the literature regarding the effectiveness of violence interventions. This study aims to contribute towards addressing the gap in the evaluation...

... by pervasive gender-based violence, struggles in identity and systematic control. Gendered, trauma-informed women’s homelessness services are required. Practical implications Findings demonstrate the desperate need for an expansion in female-only homelessness services. The lived experience...

...Mathieu Dumont; Catherine Briand; Ginette Aubin; Alexandre Dumais; Stéphane Potvin Purpose This study aims to develop immersive scenarios (immersive videos) to foster generalization of learning while addressing social cognition, a factor associated to violence in schizophrenia. The authors sought...

...Kaitlin Hardin; Nicholas Scurich Purpose Official criminal justice statistics (e.g. arrest rates) underestimate the frequency of crime because not all crime gets reported to authorities, a phenomenon known as the “dark figure of crime.” The present study aims to examine the dark figure of violence...

... proceeding to consider qualitative interviews with therapists (n = 7) and forensic patients (n = 5), who had completed a long-term violence therapy (Life Minus Violence – Enhanced, LMV-E©). The research explored perceptions of forensic patients and treatment facilitators when completing...

...Jessica Holley; James Tapp; Simon Draycott Purpose Coercive practices – which are used as means to manage violent/aggressive behaviour in secure forensic settings – have come under scrutiny in recent years due to their paradoxical effects on provoking further service user aggression and violence...

...Nicola S. Gray; Jacqui Tiller; Robert J. Snowden Purpose Wales Applied Risk Research Network (WARRN) is a formulation-based technique for the assessment and management of serious risk (e.g. violence to others, suicide, etc.) for users of mental health services which has been adopted across most...

...Kirsten McCallum Purpose Given the amount of research examining the association between trauma and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) with aggression and violence, few studies have focussed on a UK prison population. Additionally, few have examined the relationship between PTSD symptoms...

...Annette Greenwood; Louise Braham Purpose The purpose of this paper is to undertake a systematic literature review to appraise the current evidence relating to the factors associated with violence and aggression in adult psychiatric hospital inpatient settings. Design/methodology/approach...

... (80%) Homosexual 1 (10%) Bisexual 1 (10%) Ethnicity White 9 (90%) Afro-Caribbean 1 (10%) © Emerald Publishing Limited 2018 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Q-methodology Forensic Psychosis Masculinity Mental health Violence...

...Alessandra Cappai; Jodie Wells; James Tapp; Derek Perkins; Anna Manners; Martha Ferrito; Nitin Gupta; Mrigendra Das Purpose Substance misuse (SMU) is widely prevalent in mentally disordered offenders and is linked with violence and offending behaviour. There is however, a scarcity of literature...

... to violence prediction but four of the five items rated most relevant were Historical items. A recent history of violence was rated more important for risk formulation than Historical and Risk management items, but not more important than Clinical items. While almost all respondents believed predictive...

...Nienke Verstegen; Vivienne de Vogel; Michiel de Vries Robbé; Martijn Helmerhorst Purpose Inpatient violence can have a major impact in terms of traumatic experiences for victims and witnesses, an unsafe treatment climate, and high-financial costs. Therefore, the purpose of this paper is to gain...

... with a primary diagnosis of severe mental illness, with and without a history of violence, and compared how levels of global functioning and risk impacted on recovery. Patients were divided into two groups: those with and without a previous or current history of violence. The two groups were compared on measures...

... approaches to training and management are required to ensure appropriate prevention and intervention. Future practice should draw on emerging theories of differential susceptibility. Originality/value This paper extends current knowledge about how incidents of violence and aggression differ across secure...