Secure services Blog Posts

• Headbanging as self-injury in secure mental health settings: who is most affected?

  08 Jan 2026

  • Samuel Woodnutt
  • and Jasmine Snowden

  
• Eye Movement Desensitisation and reprocessing impacts on symptoms of PTSD in adult with learning disabilities

  24 Jan 2014

  • John Northfield

  
• Development of leave/abscond risk assessment in clinical practice needs evaluation and validation

  24 Apr 2013

  • John Northfield

  
• Short social climate questionnaire is found to have validity in secure learning disability services

  08 Feb 2013

  • John Northfield

  
• Recovery approach shows promise in learning disabilities secure service

  28 Sep 2012

  • John Northfield

  
• Involving people with learning disabilities in a secure service in risk assessment supports holistic approach and promotes trust

  22 Nov 2011

  • John Northfield

  
• Evaluation of adapted sex offender treatment programme in secure learning disability service finds evidence of positive outcomes

  17 Aug 2011

  • John Northfield