G. Dickens

G. Dickens, Jaclyn Watt, 2018, Journal of child and adolescent psychiatric nursing : official publication of the Association of Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Nurses, Inc.

Be prepared for the ban

G. Dickens, 2008 .

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

M. Picchioni, G. Dickens, L. O'Shea, 2016, Assessment.

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

M. Picchioni, G. Dickens, P. Sugarman, 2014, Comprehensive psychiatry.

Psychometric Properties of the Insomnia Severity Index Among Arabic Chronic Diseases Patients

G. Dickens, Mohammed Al Maqbali, N. Madkhali, 2022, SAGE open nursing.

Reducing medication administration errors in learning disability nursing

G. Dickens, J. Calvert, Colin Doyle, 2006 .

A Firesetting Offense Chain for Mentally Disordered Offenders

G. Dickens, T. Gannon, Nichola Tyler, 2014 .

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

G. Dickens, E. Lamont, John P. Harris, 2017 .

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

G. Dickens, J. Sixsmith, J. Huber, 2016, International journal of mental health nursing.

Psychological first aid for workers in care and nursing homes: systematic review

G. Dickens, M. Schoultz, L. Macaden, 2022, BMC Nursing.

Effectiveness and experiences of mental health nurses in cases of medical emergency and severe physiological deterioration: A systematic review.

Lucie M. Ramjan, G. Dickens, L. Ramjan, 2019, International journal of nursing studies.

MENTAL HEALTH NURSES' EMOTIONS, EXPOSURE TO PATIENT AGGRESSION, ATTITUDES TO, AND USE OF, SECLUSION AND RESTRAINT: CROSS-SECTIONAL, CORRELATIONAL STUDY

G. Dickens, J. Sixsmith, J. Huber, 2017 .

Clarity, confidence, and complexity: Learning from nurses' experiences of events involving physiological deterioration of consumers in acute inpatient mental health settings.

Y. Salamonson, G. Dickens, A. Johnson, 2019, Journal of clinical nursing.

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

M. Picchioni, G. Dickens, J. McCarthy, 2015, Journal of intellectual disability research : JIDR.

Structured risk assessment for reduction of multiple risk outcomes in a secure mental health setting: Use of the START

G. Dickens, L. O'Shea, Cevher Gunenc, 2018, Criminal behaviour and mental health : CBMH.

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

G. Dickens, J. Bentley, Nicola Banham-Hall, 2013, Physiotherapy.

Running Head : FIRESETTING OFFENSE CHAIN MODEL ( FOC-MD ) A Firesetting Offense Chain for Mentally Disordered Offenders ( FOC-MD )

Calem de Burca, G. Dickens, T. Gannon, 2015 .

Mental health services, care provision, and professional support for people diagnosed with borderline personality disorder: systematic review of service-user, family, and carer perspectives

G. Dickens, E. Lamont, 2019, Journal of mental health.

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

G. Dickens, B. Stubbs, 2008 .

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

G. Dickens, 2010, Journal of psychiatric and mental health nursing.

Safety attitudes, perceived organizational culture and knowledge of the physiologically deteriorating patient among mental health nurses: Cross-sectional, correlational study.

Y. Salamonson, G. Dickens, L. Ramjan, 2019, International journal of mental health nursing.

Randomised controlled trials of mental health nurse-delivered interventions: A systematic review.

G. Dickens, M. Schoultz, N. Blay, 2022, Journal of psychiatric and mental health nursing.

Uptake and effects of psychological first aid training for healthcare workers’ wellbeing in nursing homes: A UK national survey

G. Dickens, M. Schoultz, L. Macaden, 2022, PloS one.

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

G. Dickens, C. Haw, J. Stubbs, 2008, International Psychogeriatrics.

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

M. Picchioni, G. Dickens, C. Long, 2013 .

Mixed-methods evaluation of an educational intervention to change mental health nurses' attitudes to people diagnosed with borderline personality disorder.

G. Dickens, E. Lamont, J. Mullen, 2019, Journal of clinical nursing.

Experiences of women in secure care who have been prescribed clozapine for borderline personality disorder

M. Picchioni, G. Dickens, Catherine L. Frogley, 2016, Borderline Personality Disorder and Emotion Dysregulation.

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

G. Dickens, N. Hallett, 2015, International journal of mental health nursing.

Nurses' Views About Unlicensed and Off-license Medicines in Forensic Mental Health

G. Dickens, C. Haw, J. Stubbs, 2014 .

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

G. Dickens, E. Fox, K. Krawczyk, 2014, Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy.

Pre-registration nursing students' anxiety and academic concerns after the second wave of COVID-19 pandemic in Italy: A cross-sectional study

G. Dickens, G. Cicolini, D. Comparcini, 2022, Nurse Education Today.

Interventions to Improve Social Climate in Acute Mental Health Inpatient Settings: Systematic Review of Content and Outcomes

G. Dickens, A. Johnson, Kelly Steel, 2022, SAGE open nursing.

Measuring the violence prevention climate: Development and evaluation of the VPC-14.

G. Dickens, J. Sixsmith, J. Huber, 2018, International journal of nursing studies.

Interpretation and knowledge of human rights in mental health practice.

G. Dickens, P. Sugarman, 2008, British journal of nursing.

Protecting patients in psychiatric care: the St Andrew’s Human Rights Project

G. Dickens, P. Sugarman, 2007 .

Safewards: Changes in conflict, containment, and violence prevention climate during implementation

G. Dickens, S. Frost, Tracy Tabvuma, 2020, International journal of mental health nursing.

A Systematic Review of Violence Risk Assessment Tools Currently Used in Emergency Care Settings

G. Dickens, N. Hallett, Dana Sammut, 2022, Journal of Emergency Nursing.

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

G. Dickens, N. Alderman, M. Piccirillo, 2013, International journal of mental health nursing.

Characteristics that predict firesetting in male and female mentally disordered offenders

G. Dickens, T. Gannon, Nichola Tyler, 2015 .

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

G. Dickens, C. Long, O. Dolley, 2014 .

Adult firesetters: prevalence, characteristics, psychopathology

G. Dickens, P. Sugarman, 2012 .

Characteristics of low IQ arsonists at psychiatric assessment

G. Dickens, S. Edgar, K. Hofberg, 2008, Medicine, science, and the law.

The evolution of secure and forensic mental healthcare

G. Dickens, P. Sugarman, 2015 .

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

M. Picchioni, G. Dickens, Catherine L. Frogley, 2013, Therapeutic advances in psychopharmacology.

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

G. Dickens, Kate Smith, R. Ion, 2017, Nurse education in practice.

Examining the utility of the Violence Prevention Climate scale: In a metropolitan Australian general hospital.

G. Dickens, W. Varndell, Scott Lamont, 2021, Journal of clinical nursing.

Identification of the components for investigation of the psychological strength of nursing applicants: A qualitative study

G. Dickens, V. Zamanzadeh, L. Valizadeh, 2021, Nursing open.

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

G. Dickens, B. Stubbs, 2009, Physiotherapy.

Structured assessments for imminent aggression in mental health and correctional settings: Systematic review and meta-analysis.

G. Dickens, M. Christensen, L. O’Shea, 2020, International journal of nursing studies.

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

G. Dickens, Cevher Gunenc, L. O’Shea, 2015, International journal of mental health nursing.

A case series of clozapine for borderline personality disorder.

M. Picchioni, G. Dickens, David Taylor, 2013, Annals of clinical psychiatry : official journal of the American Academy of Clinical Psychiatrists.

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

G. Dickens, L. O’Shea, 2017 .

Key performance indicators and HoNOS

G. Dickens, P. Sugarman, 2010 .

Tracking Risk Profiles and Outcome in a Medium Secure Service for Women: Use of the HoNOS-Secure

U. Mochty, G. Dickens, L. Craig, 2010 .

Self-cutting and harm reduction: Evidence trumps values but both point forward.

G. Dickens, Leah Hosie, 2018, Journal of psychiatric and mental health nursing.

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

G. Dickens, L. O’Shea, 2016, Psychiatry Research.

Mental health outcome measures in the age of recovery-based services.

G. Dickens, 2009, British journal of nursing.

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

G. Dickens, L. O’Shea, 2015, International journal of nursing studies.

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

G. Dickens, P. Sugarman, G. Rogers, 2005, Journal of psychiatric and mental health nursing.

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

G. Dickens, C. Haw, J. Stubbs, 2005, Journal of psychiatric and mental health nursing.

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

G. Dickens, C. Haw, J. Stubbs, 2004, Journal of psychiatric and mental health nursing.

Clinical Features of COVID-19 Patients in the First Year of Pandemic: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

G. Dickens, Mohammed Al Maqbali, Mohammed K. Al- Sinani, 2021, Biological research for nursing.

Measuring the violence prevention climate :

G. Dickens, J. Sixsmith, J. Huber, 2018 .

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

M. Picchioni, G. Dickens, Mareike Suesse, 2014 .

Violence Prevention Climate in General Adult Inpatient Mental Health Units: Validation study of the VPC‐14

G. Dickens, N. Hallett, Tracy Tabvuma, 2020, International journal of mental health nursing.

The violence prevention climate of mental health wards: a cross-sectional study of staff and patient views

G. Dickens, N. Hallett, 2020, Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology.

Protective Factors in Risk Assessment Schemes for Adolescents in Mental Health and Criminal Justice Populations: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of their Predictive Efficacy

G. Dickens, L. O’Shea, 2018 .

Protective Factors in Risk Assessment Schemes for Adolescents in Mental Health and Criminal Justice Populations: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of their Predictive Efficacy

G. Dickens, L. O’Shea, 2017, Adolescent Research Review.

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

G. Dickens, E. Lamont, N. Hallett, 2016, International journal of nursing studies.

Mixed methods evaluation of an educational intervention to change mental health nurses ' attitudes to people diagnosed with borderline personality disorder Running title : An intervention to improve BPD-related attitudes

G. Dickens, 2022 .

Student health professionals' attitudes and experience after watching "Ida's Diary", a first-person account of living with borderline personality disorder: Mixed methods study.

G. Dickens, E. Lamont, Fiona J. Stirling, 2018, Nurse education today.

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

G. Dickens, L. O’Shea, 2016 .

Coping strategies of family caregivers of patients with schizophrenia in Iran: A cross-sectional survey

G. Dickens, F. Rahmani, F. Ranjbar, 2019, International journal of nursing sciences.

Systematic review of therapeutic leave in inpatient mental health services

G. Dickens, E. Barlow, 2018, Archives of psychiatric nursing.

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

G. Dickens, P. Sugarman, L. Walker, 2007 .

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

M. Picchioni, G. Dickens, Marco Picchioni, 2013 .

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

G. Dickens, L. O’Shea, 2014, Psychological assessment.

Incremental Validity of Patients’ Self-Reported Anger Beyond Structured Professional Judgment Tools in the Prediction of Inpatient Aggression

G. Dickens, J. Sixsmith, J. Huber, 2019, International Journal of Forensic Mental Health.

Managing outcome performance in mental health using HoNOS: experience at St Andrew’s Healthcare

G. Dickens, P. Sugarman, L. Walker, 2009 .

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

G. Dickens, L. O’Shea, 2015 .

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

G. Dickens, J. Huber, N. Hallett, 2014 .

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

G. Dickens, C. Haw, J. Stubbs, 2007, International journal for quality in health care : journal of the International Society for Quality in Health Care.

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

G. Dickens, R. Jalil, Rahul Jalil, 2018, Journal of psychiatric and mental health nursing.

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

M. Picchioni, G. Dickens, A. Mitchell, 2014, Neuropsychology Review.

Student nurses' experiences of workplace violence: A mixed methods systematic review and meta-analysis.

G. Dickens, N. Hallett, A. Gayton, 2023, Nurse education today.

Mental health nurses’ attitudes, experience, and knowledge regarding routine physical healthcare: systematic, integrative review of studies involving 7,549 nurses working in mental health settings

E. Atlantis, G. Dickens, B. Everett, 2019, BMC Nursing.

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

G. Dickens, C. Long, J. Staniford, 2014, Journal of psychiatric and mental health nursing.

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

M. Picchioni, G. Dickens, 2012, The International journal of social psychiatry.

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

M. Picchioni, G. Dickens, Amanda Lange, 2011 .

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

G. Dickens, K. Peters, C. Cunningham, 2016, Journal of Clinical Nursing.

'Going into the unknown': experiences of male patients in secure settings during environmental transition.

G. Dickens, J. Parkes, Alison R Ward, 2015, International journal of mental health nursing.

Recovery Star: validating user recovery

G. Dickens, P. Sugarman, Yetunde Onifade, 2012 .

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

G. Dickens, C. Rooney, G. Rogers, 2009, Journal of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing.

Breakaways in specialist secure psychiatry.

G. Dickens, C. Rooney, D. Doyle, 2012, Journal of psychiatric and mental health nursing.

A review of medication administration errors reported in a large psychiatric hospital in the United kingdom.

G. Dickens, C. Haw, J. Stubbs, 2005, Psychiatric services.

Predictive validity of the Short-Term Assessment of Risk and Treatability (START) for multiple adverse outcomes: The effect of diagnosis

M. Picchioni, G. Dickens, L. O’Shea, 2017, Psychiatry Research.

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

G. Dickens, L. O’Shea, 2015, Journal of psychiatric and mental health nursing.

The role of interpersonal style in aggression and its containment in a forensic mental health setting: A correlational and pseudoprospective study of patients and nursing staff.

G. Dickens, J. Sixsmith, J. Huber, 2019, International journal of mental health nursing.

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

M. Picchioni, G. Dickens, C. Knight, 2016, Criminal behaviour and mental health : CBMH.

Mental health nurses' measured attitudes to people and practice: Systematic review of UK empirical research 2000–2019

G. Dickens, M. Schoultz, N. Hallett, 2022, Journal of psychiatric and mental health nursing.

Mental health nurses' emotions, exposure to patient aggression, attitudes to and use of coercive measures: Cross sectional questionnaire survey.

G. Dickens, J. Sixsmith, J. Huber, 2017, International journal of nursing studies.

MENTAL HEALTH NURSES ' EMOTIONS , EXPOSURE TO PATIENT AGGRESSION , ATTITUDES TO AND USE OF COERCIVE MEASURES : CROSS-SECTIONAL , CORRELATIONAL STUDY

G. Dickens, J. Sixsmith, J. Huber, 2017 .

Mental health nurses' attitudes towards risk assessment: An integrative systematic review.

G. Dickens, M. Schoultz, N. Hallett, 2023, Journal of psychiatric and mental health nursing.

Measuring the violence prevention climate: Development and evaluation of the VPC-14.

G. Dickens, J. Sixsmith, J. Huber, 2018, International journal of nursing studies.

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

G. Dickens, N. Alderman, L. Bowers, 2011, Journal of psychiatric and mental health nursing.

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

G. Dickens, N. Hallett, 2015, International journal of mental health nursing.

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

G. Dickens, N. Alderman, M. Piccirillo, 2013, International Journal of Mental Health Nursing.

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.

G. Dickens, Leah Hosie, 2018, Journal of psychiatric and mental health nursing.

Mental health nurses' emotions, exposure to patient aggression, attitudes to and use of coercive measures: Cross sectional questionnaire survey.

G. Dickens, J. Sixsmith, J. Huber, 2017, International journal of nursing studies.

AGGRESSION: NURSES' EMOTIONS, ATTITUDES AND MANAGEMENT 1 MENTAL HEALTH NURSES' EMOTIONS, EXPOSURE TO PATIENT AGGRESSION, ATTITUDES TO, AND USE OF, SECLUSION AND RESTRAINT: CROSS-SECTIONAL, CORRELATIONAL STUDY

G. Dickens, J. Sixsmith, J. Huber, 2017 .

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

M. Picchioni, G. Dickens, L. O’Shea, 2016, Assessment.

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

G. Dickens, L. O’Shea, 2017 .