2025

• Røstad, Monica; Whittington, Richard; Søndenaa, Erik. (2025) Exploring Food-Related Coercion in Intellectual Disabilities: A Study on Challenges and Support in Norway. Journal of Multidisciplinary Healthcare
  Academic article
• Appleton, Catherine Amelia; Todd-Kvam, John James Rea; Dahl, Hilde; Berit, Johnsen; Whittington, Richard. (2025) The Evolution and Implementation of Norway's Ultimate Penalty: An Exceptional Approach to Life Imprisonment?. Law and Social Inquiry (LSI)
  Academic article

2024

• Lickiewicz, Jakub; Efkemann, Simone Agnes; Husum, Tonje Lossius; Lantta, Tella; Pingani, Luca; Whittington, Richard. (2024) Corrigendum: Expert opinions on improving coercion data collection across Europe: a concept mapping study(Front. Psychiatry, (2024), 15, (1403094), 10.3389/fpsyt.2024.1403094). Frontiers in Psychiatry
  Errata
• Hallet, Nutmeg; Whittington, Richard; Richter, Dirk; Eneje, Emachi. (2024) Coercion and Violence in Mental Health Settings. Causes, Consequences, Management. Springer Nature Springer Nature
  Academic anthology/Conference proceedings
• Whittington, Richard; McGuire, James. (2024) Psychosoziale Interventionen in der forensischen Psychiatrie: What works?. Springer Nature
  Chapter
• Haines-Delmont, Alina; Bjørngaard, Johan Håkon; Brown, Andrew; Bruen, Ashley; Tsang, Anthony; Wall, Abbie. (2024) Dynamic Relationship Between Protective Factors and Violent Outcomes Assessed Using the Structured Assessment of Protective Factors (SAPROF) in Secure Forensic Services. Journal of Forensic Psychology Research and Practice
  Academic article
• Birkeland, Søren; Steinert, Tilman; Whittington, Richard; Gildberg, Frederik Alkier. (2024) Abolition of coercion in mental health services – A European survey of feasibility. International Journal of Law and Psychiatry
  Academic article
• Aluh, Deborah Oyine; Almeida, José Miguel; Richter, Dirk; Whittington, Richard. (2024) Coercion in Contemporary Mental Health Services: Key Concepts, Historical Development and Contextual Factors. Springer Nature
  Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
• Lickiewicz, Jakub; Efkemann, Simone Agnes; Husum, Tonje Lossius; Lantta, Tella; Pingani, Luca; Whittington, Richard. (2024) Expert opinions on improving coercion data collection across Europe: a concept mapping study. Frontiers in Psychiatry
  Academic article

2023

• Lantta, Tella; Duxbury, Joy; Haines-Delmont, Alina; Björkdahl, Anna; Husum, Tonje Lossius; Lickiewicz, Jakub. (2023) Models, frameworks and theories in the implementation of programs targeted to reduce formal coercion in mental health settings: a systematic review. Frontiers in Psychiatry
  Academic literature review
• Davis Le Brun, Stephanie; Butchard, Sarah; Kinderman, Peter; Umeh, Kanayo; Whittington, Richard Charles. (2023) Applying the theory of planned behaviour to understand mental health professionals’ intentions to work using a human rights-based approach in acute inpatient settings. Journal of Mental Health
  Academic article
• Mulholland, Helen; Whittington, Richard Charles; Lane, Steven; Haines-Delmont, Alina; Nathan, Rajan; Saini, Pooja. (2023) Longitudinal investigation of the presence of different trajectories and associated health and socio-economic determinants, for participants who report suicidal ideation within a community-based public health survey. BMJ Open
  Academic article
• Røstad, Monica; Whittington, Richard Charles; Søndenaa, Erik. (2023) Minimising Restrictive Interventions for People with an Intellectual Disability: Documentary Analysis of Decisions to Reduce Coercion in Norway. Scandinavian Journal of Disability Research
  Academic article
• Whittington, Richard Charles; Haines-Delmont, Alina; Bjørngaard, Johan Håkon. (2023) Femicide trends at the start of the 21st. century: Prevalence, risk factors and national public health actions. Global Public Health
  Academic article
• Hvidhjelm, Jacob; Berring, Lene Lauge; Whittington, Richard Charles; Woods, Phil; Bak, Jesper; Almvik, Roger. (2023) Short-term risk assessment in the long term: A scoping review and meta-analysis of the Brøset Violence Checklist. Journal of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing
  Academic literature review
• Whittington, Richard Charles; Aluh, Deborah Oyine; Caldas de Alemeida, Jose Miguel. (2023) Zero Tolerance for Coercion? Historical, Cultural and Organisational Contexts for Effective Implementation of Coercion-Free Mental Health Services around the World. Healthcare
  Academic article

2022

• Whittington, Richard. (2022) Book review: “Disalienation. Politics, philosophy and radical psychiatry in postwar France”. Modern & Contemporary France
  Book review
• Gonçalves ., L.; Dirkzwager, A.; Andres-Pueyo, A.; Appleton, Catherine Amelia; Blanc, J-S.; Brosens, D.. (2022) Prison-related research in Europe: Annual meeting of the Prison Working Group of the European Society of Criminology, 21-22 April, Geneva. Forensic Science International: Mind and Law
  Abstract
• Towey-Swift, Kim D.; Lauvrud, Christian; Whittington, Richard. (2022) Acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) for professional staff burnout: a systematic review and narrative synthesis of controlled trials. Journal of Mental Health
  Academic article

2021

• Whittington, Richard; Pollak, Charlotte; Keski-Valkama, Alice; Brown, Andrew; Haines, Alina; Bak, Jesper. (2021) Unidimensionality of the Strengths and Vulnerabilities Scales in the Short-Term Assessment of Risk and Treatability (START). International Journal of Forensic Mental Health
  Academic article
• Mulholland, Helen; McIntyre, Jason C.; Haines-Delmont, Alina; Whittington, Richard; Comerford, Terence; Corcoran, Rhiannon. (2021) Investigation to identify individual socioeconomic and health determinants of suicidal ideation using responses to a cross-sectional, community-based public health survey. BMJ Open
  Academic article
• Rogerson, Michelle; Haines-Delmont, Alina; McCabe, Rhiannah; Brown, Andrew; Whittington, Richard. (2021) The relationship between inpatient mental health ward design and aggression. Journal of Environmental Psychology
  Academic article
• Nesset, Merete Berg; Bjørngaard, Johan Håkon; Whittington, Richard; Palmstierna, Tom Krisman Kule. (2021) Does cognitive behavioural therapy or mindfulness-based therapy improve mental health and emotion regulation among men who perpetrate intimate partner violence? A randomised controlled trial. International Journal of Nursing Studies
  Academic article

2020

• Whittington, Richard; McGuire, James. (2020) Violence Rewired: Evidence and Strategies for Public Health Action. Cambridge University Press Cambridge University Press
  Academic monograph
• Nesset, Merete Berg; Lara Cabrera, Mariela Loreto; Bjørngaard, Johan Håkon; Whittington, Richard; Palmstierna, Tom Krisman Kule. (2020) Cognitive behavioural group therapy versus mindfulness-based stress reduction group therapy for intimate partner violence: a randomized controlled trial. BMC Psychiatry
  Academic article

2019

• Georgieva, Irina; Whittington, Richard; Lauvrud, Christian; Steinert, Tilman; Wikman, Sofia; Lepping, Peter. (2019) International variations in mental-health law regulating involuntary commitment of psychiatric patients as measured by the Mental Health Legislation Attitudes Scale. Medicine, Science and the Law
  Academic article
• Duxbury, Joy; Thomson, Gill; Scholes, Amy; Jones, Fiona; Baker, John; Downe, Soo. (2019) Staff experiences and understandings of the REsTRAIN Yourself initiative to minimize the use of physical restraint on mental health wards. International Journal of Mental Health Nursing
  Academic article
• McKeown, Mick; Thomson, Gill; Scholes, Amy; Jones, Fiona; Baker, John; Downe, Soo. (2019) “Catching your tail and firefighting”: The impact of staffing levels on restraint minimization efforts. Journal of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing
  Academic article
• Richter, Dirk; Wall, Abbie; Bruen, Ashley; Whittington, Richard. (2019) Is the global prevalence rate of adult mental illness increasing? Systematic review and meta-analysis. Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica
  Academic literature review
• Duxbury, Joy; Baker, John; Downe, Soo; Jones, Fiona; Greenwood, Paul; Thygesen, Helene. (2019) Minimising the use of physical restraint in acute mental health services: The outcome of a restraint reduction programme ('REsTRAIN Yourself'). International Journal of Nursing Studies
  Academic article
• Towey-Swift, Kim; Whittington, Richard. (2019) Person-job congruence, compassion and recovery attitude in Community Mental Health Team. Journal of Mental Health
  Academic article
• McKeown, Mick; Thomson, Gill; Scholes, Amy; Edgar, Fiona; Downe, Soo; Price, Owen. (2019) Restraint minimisation in mental health care: legitimate or illegitimate force? An ethnographic study. Sociology of Health and Illness
  Academic article

2018

• Whittington, Richard. (2018) Member of the Scientific Committee, 6th. Annual Conference on Violence in the Health Care Sector, Toronto, October 2018. .
  Other product
• Evans, Elizabeth; Perkins, Elizabeth; Clarke, Pam; Haines, Alina; Baldwin, Ashley; Whittington, Richard. (2018) Care home manager attitudes to balancing risk and autonomy for residents with dementia. Aging & Mental Health
  Academic article
• McCabe, Rhiannah; Whittington, Richard; Cramond, Laura; Perkins, Elizabeth. (2018) Contested understandings of recovery in mental health. Journal of Mental Health
  Academic article
• Hounsome, Juliet C.; Whittington, Richard; Brown, Andrew R.; Greenhill, Beth; McGuire, James. (2018) The Structured Assessment of Violence Risk in Adults with Intellectual Disability: A Systematic Review. JARID: Journal of applied research in intellectual disabilities
  Academic literature review

2017

• Haines, Alina; Brown, Andrew; Javaid, Syed Fahad; Khan, Fayyaz; Noblett, Steve; Omodunbi, Oladipupo. (2017) Assessing protective factors for violence risk in U.K. General Mental Health Services using the structured assessment of protective factors. International journal of offender therapy and comparative criminology
  Academic article
• Wilkinson, Helen; Whittington, Richard; Perry, Lorraine; Eames, Catrin. (2017) Examining the relationship between burnout and empathy in healthcare professionals: A systematic review. Burnout Research
  Academic literature review
• Nesset, Merete Berg; Bjørngaard, Johan Håkon; Nøttestad, Jim Aage; Whittington, Richard; Lynum, Cecilie; Palmstierna, Tom. (2017) Factors associated with police decisions on immediate responses to intimate partner violence. Journal of Interpersonal Violence
  Academic article

2015

• Søndenaa, Erik; Dragsten, Frode; Whittington, Richard. (2015) Practitioner explanations for the increasing use of restraint measures in the care of people with intellectual disabilities in Norway 2000-11. Journal of Policy and Practice in Intellectual Disabilities
  Academic article
• Søndenaa, Erik; Whittington, Richard; Lauvrud, Christian; Nonstad, Kåre. (2015) Job stress, burnout and job satisfaction in staff working with people with intellectual disabilities: community and criminal justice care. Journal of intellectual disabilities and offending behaviour
  Academic article
• Gudde, Camilla Buch; Olsø, Turid Møller; Whittington, Richard; Vatne, Solfrid. (2015) Service users’ experiences and views of aggressive situations in mental health care: a systematic review and thematic synthesis of qualitative studies. Journal of Multidisciplinary Healthcare
  Academic literature review

2014

• Whittington, Richard; Bjørngaard, Johan Håkon; Brown, Andrew; Nathan, Rajan; Noblett, Stephen; Quinn, Beverley. (2014) Dynamic relationship between multiple START assessments and violent incidents over time: a prospective cohort study. BMC Psychiatry
  Academic article
• Whittington, Richard. (2014) Clinical Risk Assessment. Policy Press
  Encyclopedia article