Danny is a clinical academic forensic psychiatrist based in Nottingham where he works clinically in prison mental health services. He is interested in the epidemiology of violence in mental illness and clinical prediction models, particularly how they might best be validated and clinically translated as clinical support tools in psychiatry. He completed his PhD as part of an NIHR Doctoral Research Fellowship, which involved developing approaches to improve violence risk assessment and intervention in first episode psychosis.
RCTs are rare in prison settings, but today, Tom Stephenson and Danny Whiting blog about a new rigorous trial that provides grounds for therapeutic optimism.
Danny Whiting reviews a recent Canadian prison study which finds that schizophrenia, bipolar disorder and homelessness are some of the factors significantly associated with reincarceration.
Danny Whiting writes his debut elf blog on a recent Danish study that uses police data to measure the risk of being subjected to crime, including violent crime, after onset of mental illness.
