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Journal Articles 2025/26

Long-term segregation and seclusion for people with an intellectual disability and/or autism in hospitals: critique of the current state of affairs. The British Journal of Psychiatry. 2025;226(1):39-46.

Fit for whose future? A critical omission of people with intellectual disability in the 2025 NHS 10 Year Health Plan for England. The British Journal of Psychiatry. 2026;228(4):300-303.

ACKR1 genetic testing should be offered before starting clozapine treatment. Nat. Mental Health 4, 30–41 (2026).

Organising care for complexity: a pathways model for adult community intellectual disability services. Int Rev Psychiatry. 2026 Feb 2:1-12.

HLA genotype testing for Carbamazepine, Oxcarbazepine, and Eslicarbazepine: a guideline developed by the UK Centre of Excellence in Regulatory Science and Innovation in Pharmacogenomics (CERSI-PGx). British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology.

The longitudinal properties of the HCR-20: A systematic review. 1 Jan 2026, In: Aggression and Violent Behavior. 86, p. 1-11 11 p., 102111.

‘The illusion of inclusion’: The Paradoxical Experiences of Patients, Carers and Staff Exposed to Violence and Aggression in Scotland and Northern Ireland’s Forensic Mental Health In-Patient Services. International Journal of Forensic Mental Health, 14999013251349220.

“Tricky interactions”: exploring mental health staff responses to stressful interpersonal sequences following mentalizing skills training. 3 Mar 2026, In: Mental Health Review Journal: Research, Policy and Practice. p. 1-17.

Interpersonal skills training for the emergency department – exploring a mentalizing approach. Emergency Care Journal, 22(1).

The layers we wear: Understanding relational patterns and the slow work of change. 11 Feb 2026, (E-pub ahead of print) In: InnovAiT: Education and inspiration for general practice.

Attending to patients who do not attend – missed appointments deserve clinical attention. 3 Dec 2025, In: BMJ. 391, p. r2534.

The point of disinterest: Exploring the forgotten consultation. 14 Jun 2025, In: InnovAiT: Education and inspiration for general practice.

Measuring recovery in high-security patients: psychometric evaluation of the Questionnaire about the Process of Recovery and its utility to assess the forensic recovery journey. BJPsych Open. 2026 Jan 22;12(1):e47. PMID: 41568704; PMCID: PMC12835695.

Establishing standards of care for forensic mental health: an international Delphi consensus-building study. Front. Psychiatry 17:1802511.

Role and responsibilities of a forensic mental health nurse: a scoping review protocol. BMJ open, 15(7), e098745.

‘It was like a jail within a jail’; Prisoners experience of Segregation within the Scottish prison Service. International Journal of Forensic Mental Health, 1-10.

Evaluating the effects of a co-developed education programme to support the care of people with dementia in a secure setting. Mental Health Practice.

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Hutton, P., Taylor, C. D. J., Kelly, J., Emsley, R., Vikram, A., Alexander, C. H., McCann, A., Saddington, D., Eliasson, E., Burke, J., Harper, S., Karatzias, T., Taylor, P. J., Watson, A., Dougall, N., Stavert, J., O’Rourke, S., Glasgow, A., Murphy, R. & Palmer, K. & 5 others. (Aug 2025) Accelerating the development of a psychological intervention to restore treatment decision-making capacity in patients with schizophrenia-spectrum disorder: An umbrella trial. In: Schizophrenia Research. 282, p. 184-197 14 p.

Zammitt, D. C., McDougall, S., O’Rourke, S., Gilling, L., Brown, S., Brown, R. & Shields, J.,  Perspectives of Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder diagnoses in children: The experiences of adoptive parents in Scotland, 21 Apr 2026, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Adoption & Fostering.

Ross, S., Brown, R. H., McDougall, S. & O’Rourke, S., Parallel journeys: Exploring the lived experience of pregnant women with alcohol/substance use problems in Scotland. Feb 2026, In: Women and Birth. 39, 1, p. 1-8 8 p., 102148.

McDougall, S., Brown, R., Shields, J., Brown, S., Burn, R. & O’Rourke, S., The fundamentals of Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder: Evaluation of an awareness-raising webinar19 Feb 2026, In: Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research. 50, 2, p. 1-14 14 p., e70251.

Brown, R. H., McDougall, S. & O’Rourke, S., Dual psychometric evaluation of measures assessing attitudes towards prenatal alcohol exposure and fetal alcohol spectrum disorder. Feb 2026, In: Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research. 50, 2, p. 1-13 13 p., e70239.

Mercer, F., McIntyre, K., Lawson, M. & O’Rourke, S., The lived experiences of adoptive and foster parents of children with Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD): A systematic review of parental stress, social networks and social support. 2 Dec 2025, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Child & Family Social Work. p. 1-19 19 p.

Keating, O., Brown, R., McDougall, S., Kuenssberg, R. & O’Rourke, S., Knowledge as prevention: A cost-effective intervention to reduce prenatal alcohol exposure. Aug 2025, In: Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research. p. 1792-1802 11 p.

Brown, R. H., Keating, O., McDougall, S. & O’Rourke, S., Exploring the influence of maternal behavioural activation and inhibition on predicting fetal alcohol exposure. 23 Dec 2025, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Substance Use & Misuse. p. 1-11 11 p.

Murray, Y., Fleming, M., Walker, H. (2026) In press: Chapter 20 on ‘The Person with depression’. The Art and Science of Mental Health Nursing, Fifth Edition (eds) Ian Norman and Iain Ryrie. United Kingdom, McGraw-Hill Education.

Thomson, L., & Gilling, L. (2025). International perspectives and practice differences. In R. Kapoor, A. C. Tamburello, J. L. Knoll, & J. L. Metzner (Eds.), Oxford textbook of correctional psychiatry (2nd ed.). Oxford University Press.

Gilling, L., Alcock, D., & Thomson, L.D.G. (in press). The crux of decisions about who requires high-security care: A systematic analysis of referrals to the State Hospital. Medicine, Science, and the Law.