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Journal Articles 2024/25

When the ward is the patient: Using the PRISM protocol to understand and reduce violence in an inpatient intellectual disability setting. 

Long-term segregation and seclusion for people with an intellectual disability and/or autism in hospitals: critique of the current state of affairs.

Evaluation of a self-report distress measure in a high-secure forensic population: CORE-OM psychometric properties and test structure.

The international prevalence of prenatal alcohol use obtained via meconium biomarkers: A systematic literature review.

Acquired brain injury and the assessment and management of violence risk.

Telling tales: storytelling and disbelief in clinical encounters.

Time from referral to discharge: Challenges for flow through the forensic estate.

Appeals against detention in conditions of excessive security: an analysis of cases from medium secure units in Scotland.

Pre and post diagnostic dementia care in four Scottish prisons.

What influences the use of seclusion? A cross-sectional study of forensic mental health nurses in a UK high secure hospital.

Developing a web-based app for non-mental health nurses to support children and young people with mental health problems.

 ‘It was like a jail within a jail’; Prisoners experience of Segregation within the Scottish prison Service.

Provision of Mental Health Scrutiny and Assurance Evidence Review.

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Thomson, L. & Gilling, L. (in press). International perspectives and practice differences. J. Metzner, R. Kapoor, T. Tamburello, and J. Knoll (Eds.) Oxford Textbook of Correctional Psychiatry (2nd edition). Oxford University Press. 

Thomson, L.D.G. (2024) Community Forensic Psychiatry including Liaison with Health, Criminal Justice and Public Protection Agencies. In Seminars in Forensic Psychiatry, Chapter 8. Editors: Kennedy H. and Davoren, M. Pubs: Royal College of Psychiatrists.

MacRae, R., Tolson, D., Taylor, J., Anderson, K., Russ, T. and Thomson, L.D.G. (2024) The health and social care of people living with diagnosed of suspected dementia in prison: current provision, lived experiences and recommendation. Final report, Dunhill Medical Trust, UWS and Alzheimer Scotland.

Murray, Y., Fleming, M., Walker, H. (2025) Chapter on ‘People with depression’. The Art and Science of Mental Health Nursing, Fifth Edition (eds) Ian Norman and Iain Ryrie. United Kingdom, McGraw-Hill Education.