Background: Engaging in trauma-informed approaches in nonforensic mental health
settings improves therapeutic relationships, promotes healing, promotes posttraumatic …

Trauma is associated with an increased likelihood of experiencing suicidality, indicating the
need for and potential value of trauma‐informed suicide prevention strategies. The aim of …

Introduction Children's development into healthy well-functioning adults can be negatively
affected by adversity. Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) have been shown to lead to a …

This article discusses insights arising from a Community of Practice (CoP) initiative within a
mental health short stay inpatient unit adjacent to a major Emergency Department to explore …

Background: Childhood abuse and neglect increase the risk of both mental disorders and
violent behavior. Associations between child relational adversities and violent behavior …

Pharmacotherapy is a front-line intervention used to address complex health concerns
among forensic system consumers. Many are prescribed a polypharmacy pharmacotherapy …

Purpose This study aimed to explore how forensic mental health service users make sense
of their past adverse experiences. Secondly, it aimed to explore whether service users …

Carers of loved ones with Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) often present to Emergency
Departments (ED) during acute crisis situations. The initial contact for the carer and …

The environment in which one grows up, if it is negative, can, depending on one's resilience
and internal resources, have a deleterious psychological impact-more so than can be …

Purpose Secure mental health services in one UK region have acted within a network to
develop a range of involvement practices. A new quality benchmarking tool has been …