Dr Phil Woods

Summary of qualifications

• PhD (Nursing Studies) 01/96-01/2000
  

• Dip Health Care Research (awarded with Distinction) 9/93-7/95
  

• Registered Mental Nurse 11/92
  

• Enrolled Nurse (Mental Illness) 8/85
  

• Cert Research (ENB 870) 9/93-7/94
  

• Counselling Level 1 1991
  

• Counselling Level 2  1992

Professional memberships 

• Royal College of Nursing Research Society
  

• Network for Psychiatric Nursing Research
  

• Royal College of Nursing Nursing in Secure Environments Forum
  

• National Forensic Nurses Research and Development Group

Previous Work Experience 

Phil is the Partnerships in Care Senior Lecturer in Forensic Mental Health Nursing, Florence Nightingale School of Nursing and Midwifery, Kings College London. His main role is to drive forward clinical practice and applied research and to strengthen the nursing contribution to care within Kneesworth House Hospital. Furthermore, he is to implement a programme of research and clinical practice development with a focus on three areas: (1) education and training; (2) clinical development; and (3) research.

Phil has over fifteen years clinical experience in mental health practice; with over ten years experience in high security forensic mental health care. His employment in high security services, initially as a ward-based clinician, involved the multi-disciplinary assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of care: and the day to day leadership and management of a residential unit. Latterly he occupied a dual role primarily as a research nurse; and secondly as a ward based clinician. Prior experience has involved working in main stream mental health care in a variety of roles, but predominantly in hospital and community based rehabilitation services. This involved the development of a community rehabilitation team at Lancaster Moor Hospital, involving the resettling of long-term patients back into the community and supporting half-way houses, group homes and boarding out schemes.

Phil has attained a national and international reputation in the forensic nursing field and is one of the few nurses currently holding a PhD specifically undertaken within the forensic context, focussing on the nursing assessment of patient risk. Phil is regularly consulted by national and international colleagues in the forensic nursing field, including Norway, the USA, Canada, and Australia, for support and advice on issues pertaining to forensic nursing and its future development. Phil publishes widely in the professional and academic press and is a regular presenter at national and international conferences. His ever growing portfolio reflects a commitment to life long learning, with extensive amounts of his personal time invested in career development. Phil has published two co-edited books which focus specifically on forensic mental health practice issues and forensic nursing interventions and the future directions these are likely to take.

Phil is extensively read in the speciality of forensic care, and has systematically reviewed the literature in two areas: the effectiveness of nursing interventions with personality disorders; and prison nursing. Phil has also analysed the forensic data from the last national community mental health nurse’s census and also had extensive input into the UKCC secure environments project.

Phil is a leading figure in the National Forensic Nurses Research and Development Group for whom he maintains their website. Phil was the founder of the Forensic Nursing Resource Homepage, a website which is recognised internationally as the foremost forensic nursing resource on the internet. Phil is the co-moderator on the international forensic-psychiatric-nursing email group, which has in excess of 200 members.

Current and Previous Posts

• Partnerships in Care Senior Lecturer in Forensic Mental Health Nursing, King's College London 2001-
  

• Lecturer in Nursing, University of Manchester 1998-2001
  

• Research Nurse, Ashworth Hospital 1995-1998
  

• Staff Nurse, Ashworth Hospital 1992-1998
  

• Enrolled Nurse, Ashworth Hospital 1987-1992
  

• Enrolled Nurse, Lancaster Moor Hospital 1985-1987
  

• Pupil Nurse, Lancaster Moor Hospital 1983-1985
  

• Nursing Assistant, Lancaster Moor Hospital 1981-1983

Research activity

Patient Dangerousness: The Views of Nurses on Low Dependency Wards

Diversion of Mentally Disordered Offenders: Indications from a Special Hospital

The Behavioural Status Index (BSI): Descriptive Studies within a Forensic Context: a collaborative study between Rampton Hospital, Ashworth Hospital.

Secondary analysis of Forensic Community Mental Health Nurse data collected during the Fourth Quinquennial Census of Community Mental Health Nurses in the UK.

A researcher in the Virtual Institute for Severe Personality Disorder (VISPED) who’s goal is to reduce the prevalence of severe personality disorder, to enhance public confidence and safety, and to develop better models of management. VISPED will pursue multidisciplinary approaches to the study of severe personality disorder so as to improve our understanding of causality and prevention, to intervene effectively and efficiently, to create improved services and modalities of treatment, and to evaluate outcomes. Staff development R&D will include recruitment, retention and morale, leadership and training, dissemination and uptake of best practice, innovative skill-mixes and service configurations. The academic infrastructure will optimise multidisciplinary, world-wide, collaboration with a variety of academic disciplines, including engagement with many not yet researching these problems.

Key tasks include:

1. To undertake a systematic review of the literature on "What is the effectiveness of nursing interventions with personality disorders"
2. To provide IT advice to the Virtual Institute, including the establishment of an e-mail system for the Virtual Institute, working closely with Dr Chris Evans, St George's Hospital.
3. The development of a strategic approach to personality disorder research including the identification of nurse-led research priorities.
4. To pursue and maintain existing European links through ongoing collaborative research work involving the Behavioural Status Index (BSI); and links with Norwegian Forensic Services at the Brøset RSU in Trondheim.
5. To complete specific study, using the existing BSI data base (and new data as it becomes available) to examine the BSI scores for patients with personality disorder compared with other groups.

Developing Community Living Skills in Offender Group: a Thematic Network Study.

European Fifth Framework funding awarded in excess of £530,000 over three years. Dr Woods component is in the region of £90,000 over three years.

Description of the Consortium:

Sektion Forensische Psychiatrie, Universitätsklinikum, Ulm; Norwegian University of Science and Technology (Medical Faculty); Ministerium fur Frauen, Jugend, Familie, Gesundheit, Dusseldorf; Geestelijke Gezondheidszorg Eindhoven en De Kempen, Eindhoven; Centre for Health and Social Care Research, Sheffield Hallam University; Rampton Hospital Authority; The Blair Unit, Aberdeen (Grampian Primary Care NHS Trust); The State Hospital, Carstairs; School of Nursing and Midwifery, Kings's College London.

Description of the Participants:

Prof Friedemann Pfaefflin (an eminent forensic psychotherapist); Dr Kirsten Rasmussen (consultant forensic psychologist); Mr Roger Almvik (nursing research fellow); Uwe Doenisch-Seidel (psychologist and clinical forensic psychotherapist); Dr Antonius C.J.M. van Erven (clinical psychologist); Dr Jan B. Dijkstra (statistical consultant); Professor Alfred Lange (social scientist and psychometrician); Prof Val Reed (psychiatric nurse, developmental psychologist); Ms Anne Dean; Prof Christopher Cordess (distinguished forensic psychiatrist and psychotherapist); Mick Collins (research nurse); Carol Watson (Senior Nurse Practice Development, Carstairs Hospital); Alyson Kettles (Nurse; Research and Development Officer); Dr Philip Woods (forensic psychiatric nurse, senior lecturer)

The project:

The increasing problem of violent offending in the EU is addressed in a four-country study (Germany, The Netherlands, The UK, and Norway). Unified approaches to assessment/treatment of socially ’risky’ behaviours in offender groups are developed. Parallel assessment/treatment of offenders in psychiatric care is undertaken, using innovative profiling (the Behavioural Status Index) with other validators. This allows systematic cross-border studies of offenders and continuous monitoring of responses to rehabilitation. Multilingual formats allow EU partners to develop individual ’profiles’ for offenders, which can accompany their subsequent treatment careers. Key elements are improvement of carer assessments; development of offender profiles; related care planning and delivery; and studies of change processes. More effective and efficient rehabilitation of violent and aggressive offenders is posited.

The project objectives are: (1) complete cross-cultural studies informed by ICIDH-2 classifications using the Behavioural Status Index (an instrument which facilitates individual profiling, risk prediction and treatment selection for dangerous offenders); (2) pilot related development of actuarial databases and of behavioural profiles for individual offenders; (3) evaluate utility, acceptability and generalising properties of the innovative programme within the European collaborative network; (4) examine impacts of the change process on care staffs’ attitudes to assessment and treatment, and on their ways of working with patients; (5) validate a related multilingual educational, assessmental, analytic and profiling infosystem for potential use throughout the EU.

Cross-cultural psychological profiling and treatment will take place in multi-centres comprising clinics in Germany, the Netherlands, Norway and the UK, involving cohort samples of mentally disordered offenders. In each country representative sub-samples of forensic psychiatric patients and their controls (total N=420) will be recruited, assessed, profiled and their progress re-evaluated using selected sub-scales of the Behavioural Status Index (BSI) and cross-validating instruments (HCR-20; PCL-R; SCL-90-R; BDHI-D). Profiles will be related to ICIDH-2 classifications, many of whose psychologically-involved items are operationalised by the BSI sub-scales. These will be used to ’customise’ therapeutic interventions for selected patients; and clinical outcomes reported. There will be concurrent studies of the impacts of the programme on staff attitudes to, and ways of working with, patients; and of a related CD-ROM-based assessment and profiling package. The programme employs a wide-spectrum classification instrument (the Behavioural Status Index), proven robust in UK validation studies (N=503), and aimed at reducing the probability of social risk when offenders are returned from hospital to community care; and improving all-round social functioning and integration in such groups, by carefully focusing therapeutic inputs. The model posits that the social risk presented by an offender varies inversely with his/her degree of personal insight and capacity to perform well in key areas (communication and social skills; empathy; self and family care; work and recreation). These repertoires provide critical focal areas for treatment planning and delivery in forensic psychiatric care. Statistical evidence suggests that such variables are inter-related and cross-predictive. Shared concerns on social violence make it urgent to develop this type of behavioural profiling as ’common currency’ in EU communities.

Brøset Violence Checklist (BVC) and BSI projects, along with Roger Almvik, Research Fellow, Institute of Forensic Psychiatry, Norwegian University of Science and Technology.

BVC:

BSI

2000 - 2001

Evaluation of the Reconfiguration of a Service for Psychosis. First phase of the study is complete. This involved a caseload audit of all six community mental health teams in the Trust and a casenote analysis of a random sample of psychosis clients from the teams. The results of the caseload audit have been used to reconfigure the service and the recommendations are currently being implemented in collaboration with Dr Woods.

2001

Consultancy work on the caring for prisoners RCN/prison nurses forum roles and boundaries project

2002

A number of nursing research projects are currently in the proposal stage

International links (established and developing)

• Collaborative European study with the Dutch, German, and Norwegian forensic services. 

• Strong working relationship established with: Forensic Clinic, Hospital de Grote Beek,  Eindhoven, Netherlands; Rheinische Landesklinik Bedburg-Hau, Germany; and RSU Brøset, Trondheim, Norway. 

• Part of research consortium in Australia aiming to develop standardised  forensic assessment in a number of forensic units. I am a named associate investigator and will be a research consultant for the study.  

• I have many other National and International forensic links - too many to name.

Conferences attended

• 16^th May 1994 - A Vision for the Future: the nursing, midwifery and health visiting contribution to health and health care, Department of Health, London
  
  

• 11^th October 1995 - Mainstream and Forensic Mental Health Care: The Developing Interface, Sheffield
  
  

• 6^th November 1995 - The Prediction of Dangerousness and Assessment of Risk, Leicester
  
  

• 12^th December 1995 - Quality and Innovation in the Secure Setting Conference, Broadmoor Hospital.  Paper delivered on Patient Dangerousness: The Views of Nurses on Low Dependency Wards in a Special Hospital
  
  

• 12^th June 1996 - Clinical Assessment of Risk Seminar, Ashworth Hospital
  
  

• 18^th February 1997 - Celebrating good practice, Rampton Hospital, Retford
  
  

• 5^th June 1997 - Developments in risk assessment, Rampton Hospital, Retford
  
  

• 20^th May 1997 - RCN Congress, Harrogate
  
  

• 14^th November 1997 - The practice and service development initiative (PSDI), Rampton Hospital Authority and the National Forensic Research and Development Group Database Launch, Rampton Hospital, Retford
  
  

• 20^th November 1997 - BSI conference: Forensic Clinic, Hospital de Grote Beek,  Eindhoven, Netherlands
  
  

• 23^rd April 1998 - Minisymposium BSI: Rheinische Landesklinik Bedburg-Hau, Germany
  
  

• 23^rd and 24^th June 1998 - 1^st National Conference on Risk Management in Mental Health, Royal College of Physicians, London.
  
  

• 2^nd and 3^rd September 1998 - Extending the Boundaries, NPNR, Oxford
  
  

• 10^th November 1998 – BSI Euro Seminar, Rampton Hospital Authority
  
  

• 20^th November 1998 – Personality Disorder Policy and Practice, University of Central Lancashire
  
  

• 26^th November 1998 – High Psychiatric Services Commissioning Board Roadshow, Ashworth Hospital Authority
  
  

• 19^th February 1999 – The Behavioural Status Index Norwegian version symposium, RSU Brøset, Trondheim, Norway
  
  

• 16^th to 20^th March 1999 – The 1999 International Forensic Mental Health Conference, Melbourne, Australia
  
  

• 22^nd March 1999 – Forensic Psychiatry, New South Wales Institute of Psychiatry, in conjunction with the University of Western Sydney NEPEAN, Sydney, Australia
  
  

• 20^th July 1999 – Creating Caring Communities to Serve Mentally Ill Offenders, International Forensic Mental Health Conference, University of Central Lancashire, Preston, UK
  
  

• 23^rd and 24^th September 1999 – The British and Irish Group for the Study of Personality Disorders 1^st Annual Conference, Imperial College, London
  
  

• 29^th and 30^th September 1999 -  Evidence for the future, NPNR, Oxford
  
  

• 8^th to 10^th November 1999 – 23^rd National Conference on Correctional Health Care, National Commission on Correctional Health Care, Fort Lauderdale, Florida
  
  

• 23^rd June 2000 – Advancing Mental Health Nursing, London
  
  

• 12^th to 16^th October 2000 - 8^th Annual Scientific Assembly of the International Association of Forensic Nurses, Calgary, Canada.
  
  

• 15^th March 2001 – Turning Point Community Mentally Disordered Offender Conference, Manchester.
  
  

• 17^th May 2001 – Prison Nurses Conference.
  
  

• 23^rd May 2001 – RCN Prison Nurses Forum, RCN Congress, Harrogate.
  
  

• 4^th to 6^th June 2001 – Creating Seamless Services in Forensic Psychiatry, 3^rd International Forensic Mental Health Conference, University of Central Lancashire, Preston, UK.
  
  

• 28^th to 30^th June 2001 - 2nd European Congress on Violence in Clinical Psychiatry, Stockholm.
  
   

• 26^th to 28^th September 2001 – 7^th International NPNR Conference “From Practice to Evidence”, Oxford, UK.
  
   

• 18^th February 2002 – 5^th Annual Nursing Conference, Kneesworth House Hospital: The Emerging Evidence Base – a New Culture for Nursing.
  
   

• 27^th March 2002 – RCN Forensic Nurses Forum East Anglia Regional Seminar, Cambridge.
  
   

• 5th - 7th April 2002 - 11th Annual Conference of the International Association for Forensic
  Psychotherapy: Trauma and Delinquency, Stuttgart.
  
   

• 24^th May 2002 - Inclusion or seclusion: a clinical practice seminar. Bracton Centre, Kent

Conference and seminar addresses

• 12^th December 1995 - Quality and Innovation in the Secure Setting Conference, Broadmoor Hospital.  Paper delivered on Patient Dangerousness: The Views of Nurses on Low Dependency Wards in a Special Hospital
  
  

• 12^th June 1996 - Clinical Assessment of Risk Seminar, Ashworth Hospital. Joint paper delivered on the Behavioural Status Index preliminary results
  
  

• 21^st February 1997 - Anglia Polytechnic University, Chelmsford.  Joint paper delivered on Risk Assessment in the Forensic Setting
  
  

• 20^th May 1997 - RCN Congress, Harrogate. Paper delivered on Named Nurse Assessment of Dangerousness
  
  

• 20^th November 1997 - Key Speaker at the BSI conference: Forensic Clinic, Hospital de Grote Beek,  Eindhoven, Netherlands
  
  

• 23^rd April 1998 - Key Speaker at the Minisymposium BSI: Rheinische Landesklinik Bedburg-Hau, Germany
  
  

• 23^rd and 24^th June 1998 – Chairman for the second day at 1^st National Conference on Risk Management in Mental Health, Royal College of Physicians, London. 
  
  

• 2^nd September 1998 - Extending the Boundaries, NPNR, Oxford. Joint paper delivered on An Aid to Violence Prediction: the Broset Violence Checklist
  
  

• 3^rd September 1998 - Extending the Boundaries, NPNR, Oxford. Paper delivered on Bridging the Research/Practice Gap in International Forensic Care
  
  

• 10^th November 1998 – BSI Euro Seminar, Rampton Hospital Authority: Keynote paper delivered on BSI study findings and Norwegian Translation
  
  

• 20^th November 1998 – Personality Disorder Policy and Practice, University of Central Lancashire. Keynote speak delivered on Severe Personality Disorder Research and Development
  
  

• 26^th November 1998 – High Psychiatric Services Commissioning Board Roadshow, Ashworth Hospital Authority. Joint paper delivered on the Virtual Institute for Severe Personality Disorder
  
  

• 19^th February 1999 – The Behavioural Status Index Norwegian version symposium, RSU Brøset, Trondheim, Norway. Keynote paper delivered on Behavioural Status Index Study and Findings
  
  

• 17^th March 1999 – The 1999 International Forensic Mental Health Conference, Melbourne, Australia. Paper delivered on The Behavioural Status Index: Measuring the Therapeutic Assessment of Risk, Insight, Communication and Social Skills in Forensic Care
  
  

• 18^th March 1999 – The 1999 International Forensic Mental Health Conference, Melbourne, Australia. Paper delivered on An Aid to Violence Prediction: The Brøset Violence Checklist
  
  

• 22^nd March 1999 – Forensic Psychiatry, New South Wales Institute of Psychiatry, in conjunction with the University of Western Sydney NEPEAN, Sydney, Australia. Keynote paper delivered on Personality Disorder – current trends in identification and management
  
  

• 20^th July 1999 – Creating Caring Communities to Serve Mentally Ill Offenders, International Forensic Mental Health Conference, University of Central Lancashire, Preston, UK. Paper delivered on An Aid to Violence Prediction: The Brøset Violence Checklist
  
  

• 20^th July 1999 – Creating Caring Communities to Serve Mentally Ill Offenders, International Forensic Mental Health Conference, University of Central Lancashire, Preston, UK. Paper delivered on The Behavioural Status Index: Measuring the Therapeutic Assessment of Risk, Insight, Communication and Social Skills in Forensic Care
  
  

• 23^rd September 1999 – The British and Irish Group for the Study of Personality Disorders 1^st Annual Conference, Imperial College, London. Paper delivered on The Behavioural Status Index:  measuring the therapeutic assessment of risk, insight, communication and social skills in forensic care
  
  

• 10^th November 1999 – 23^rd National Conference on Correctional Health Care, National Commission on Correctional Health Care, Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Joint paper to be delivered on International Perspectives on Research and Practice Issues in Correctional Nursing
  
  

• 23^rd June 2000 – Advancing Mental Health Nursing, London. Keynote paper delivered on Risk Management in Mental Health Nursing
  
  
• 12^th to 16^th October 2000 - 8^th Annual Scientific Assembly of the International Association of Forensic Nurses, Calgary, Canada. Full day pre-conference seminar on Forensic Psychiatric Nursing Research in the UK
  
  

• 12^th to 16^th October 2000 - 8^th Annual Scientific Assembly of the International Association of Forensic Nurses, Calgary, Canada. Concurrent session entitled Personality Disorder: how effective are nursing interventions?
  
  

• 12^th to 16^th October 2000 - 8^th Annual Scientific Assembly of the International Association of Forensic Nurses, Calgary, Canada. Poster presentation entitled The Behavioural Status Index: measuring the therapeutic assessment of risk, insight, communication and social skills in forensic care
  
  

• 12^th to 16^th October 2000 - 8^th Annual Scientific Assembly of the International Association of Forensic Nurses, Calgary, Canada. Joint concurrent session entitled Use of the Broset Violence Checklist to predict violence
  

• 15^th March 2001 – Turning Point Community Mentally Disordered Offender Conference, Manchester. Workshop delivered on Risk  Assessment and Management
  
  

• 17^th May 2001 – Prison Nurses Conference, London. Joint plenary paper delivered on Caring for Prisoners: the RCN/Prison Nurses Forum Roles and Boundaries Project
  
  

• 23^rd May 2001 – RCN Prison Nurses Forum, RCN Congress, Harrogate. Joint paper delivered on Caring for Prisoners: the RCN/Prison Nurses Forum Roles and Boundaries Project
  
  

• 4^th June 2001 – Creating Seamless Services in Forensic Psychiatry, 3^rd International Forensic Mental Health Conference, University of Central Lancashire, Preston, UK. Joint concurrent session entitled Caring for Prisoners: the RCN/Prison Nurses Forum Roles and Boundaries Project
  
  

• 5^th June 2001 – Creating Seamless Services in Forensic Psychiatry, 3^rd International Forensic Mental Health Conference, University of Central Lancashire, Preston, UK. Joint concurrent session entitled Caring for Prisoners: the RCN/Prison Nurses Forum Roles and Boundaries Project
  
  

• 6^th June 2001 – Creating Seamless Services in Forensic Psychiatry, 3^rd International Forensic Mental Health Conference, University of Central Lancashire, Preston, UK. Concurrent session entitled The effectiveness of nursing interventions with personality disorder: results of a systematic review of the literature and the emerging research issues
  
  

• 28^th June 2001 - 2nd European Congress on Violence in Clinical Psychiatry, Stockholm. Symposium presentation delivered entitled The Brøset Violence Checklist: Sensitivity, Specificity and Inter-rater Reliability.
  
   

• 27^th September 2001 – 7^th International NPNR Conference “From Practice to Evidence”, Oxford, UK. Joint concurrent session to be delivered entitled Short-term risk prediction: the Brøset Violence Checklist
  
   

• 14^th September 2001 – Forensic Conference, Gjovik, Norway. Plenary session delivered on the Behavioural Status Index
  
   

• 18^th February 2002 – 5^th Annual Nursing Conference, Kneesworth House Hospital: The Emerging Evidence Base – a New Culture for Nursing. Paper delivered entitled An Evaluation of Nursing Practice.
  
   

• 27^th March 2002 – RCN Forensic Nurses Forum East Anglia Regional Seminar, Cambridge. Keynote address delivered entitled The Effectiveness of Nursing Interventions with Personality Disorders
  
   

• 5th April 2002 - 11th Annual Conference of the International Association for Forensic
  Psychotherapy: Trauma and Delinquency, Stuttgart. Paper delivered entitled Developing Community Living Skills in Offender Group: a Thematic Network Study.
  
   

• 24^th May 2002 - Inclusion or seclusion: a clinical practice seminar. Bracton Centre, Kent. Local practice paper delivered

Posters

• 18^th February 1997 - Celebrating good practice, Rampton Hospital, Retford. Poster presentation on developing practice on the internet
  
  

• 18^th February - 5^th European Mental Health Nursing Conference: Modern policies, modern practice, Manchester. Poster presentation on Forensic Research in the School of Nursing

Forthcoming presentations

None at present

Abstracts submitted 

None at present

Journal Publications

• Woods, P. (1996). How nurses make assessments of patient dangerousness. Mental Health Nursing, 16, 20-22.
  
  

• Woods, P., Mason, T. (1997). Twenty Years of Admissions to a Special Hospital. Psychiatric Care, 4(1), 22-25. 
  
  

• Woods, P., Reed, V.  (1998). Measuring risk and related behaviours with the Behavioural Status Index (BSI): some preliminary psychometric studies. International Journal of Psychiatric Nursing Research, 4(1), 396-409.
  
  

• Woods, P., Mason, T. (1998). Mental Impairment and admission to a Special Hospital.  British Journal of Developmental Disabilities, 44(87), 119-131.
  
  

• Woods, P. (1998). The Forensic Nursing Resource Homepage. Mental Health Care, 21(2), 72-73.
  
  

• Almvik, R., Woods, P. (1998). The Brøset Violence Checklist (BVC) and the prediction of in-patient violence: some preliminary results. Psychiatric Care, 5(6), 208-211. 
  
  

• Mason, T., Woods, P. (1998).  Admission Trends to a Special Hospital: Court Diversion and Prison Transfers. Journal of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing, 5(6), 479-487.
  
  

• Almvik, R., Woods, P. (1999).  Predicting inpatient violence using the Brøset Violence Checklist (BVC). International Journal of Psychiatric Nursing Research, 4(3), 498-505.
  
  

• Woods, P., Reed, V., Robinson, D. (1999).  The Behavioural Status Index: therapeutic assessment of risk, insight, communication and social skills. Journal of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing, 6(2), 79-90.
  
  

• Storey, L., Woods, P., Bradshaw, R., Landsberg, G. (1999). NYPD Blues: Feature Article. Mental Health Care, 2(11), 371-372.
  
  

• Woods, P., Reed, V. (1999). The Behavioural Status Index (BSI): some preliminary reliability studies. International Journal of Psychiatric Nursing Research, 5(2), 554-561.
  
  

• Woods, P. Reed, V. (2000). Use of the Behavioural Status Index in therapeutic programmes with high-risk clients. Mental Health Care, 3(6), 194-196.
  
  

• Dale, C., Woods, P. (2000). A risk assessment and management strategy for community nursing. British Journal of Community Nursing, 5(6), 286-291.
  
  

• Almvik, R., Woods, P., Rasmussen, K. (2000). The Brøset Violence Checklist (BVC): Sensitivity, specificity and inter-rater reliability. Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 15(12), 1284-1296.
  
  

• Kettles, A.M, Peternelj-Taylor, C., Woods, P., Hufft, A., Van Erven, T., Don, H.M., Donisch-Siedel, U., Kuppen, A., Holmes, C., Almvik, R., Hatling, T., Robinson, D.K. (2001). Forensic Nursing: a Global Perspective. British Journal of Forensic Practice 3(2), 29-41.
  
  

• Woods, P., Reed, V., Collins, M. (2001). Measuring risk in a high security forensic setting using the Behavioural Status Index. International Journal of Psychiatric Nursing Research 7(1), 793-805. 
  
  

• Woods, P., Reed, V., Collins, M. (2001). Measuring communication and social skills in a high security forensic setting using the Behavioural Status Index. International Journal of Psychiatric Nursing Research 7(1), 761-777.
  
   

• Woods, P., Reed, V., Collins, M. (2001). Measuring insight in a high security forensic setting using the Behavioural Status Index. British Journal of Forensic Practice 3(3), 3-12.
  
   

• Almvik, R., Woods, P. (2001). Voldelig atferd er et problem på psykiatriske sykehusavdelinger.  Sykepleien/Norwegian Journal of Nursing 89(21), 56-60.

Journal publications in press

• Woods, P., Almvik, R. (2002). The Brøset Violence Checklist (BVC). Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica (in press).
  
   

•  Dale, C., Woods, P. (2002). Caring for Prisoners. Nursing Management (in press)

Journal publications submitted

• Woods, P., Reed, V., Collins, M.  Relationships between risk and insight in a high security forensic setting (under peer review Journal of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing)
  
   

• Woods, P., Reed, V., Collins, M  (2002) Exploring core relationships between insight, and communication and social skills in mentally disordered offenders  (under peer review Journal of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing)
  
   

• Almvik, R., Woods, P. (2002). Short-term risk prediction: the Broset Violence Checklist. (under peer review Journal of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing)
  
   

• Kettles et al  (under peer review Journal of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing)

Developing journal publications 

• Woods, P., Richards, D. Differences in problem severity, complexity, chronicity and volatility, and risk between psychosis and non-psychosis clients in a community mental health service (being prepared for the Journal of Mental Health) 
  
   

• Woods, P., Reed, V., Collins, M. Relationships between risk and communication and social skills in a high security forensic setting  (being prepared)
  
   

• Woods, P., Reed, V., Collins, M.  Relationships between risk, insight, communication and social skills in a high security forensic setting (being prepared)
  
   

• Woods, P., Richards, D. The effectiveness of nursing interventions with personality disorder: a systematic review of the literature (being prepared)

Book chapters 

• Dale, C., Woods, P., Allan, G., Brennan, W. (1999). Violence in High Secure Hospital Settings: measuring, assessing and responding. In: Kemshall, H., Pritchard, J. (eds). Good Practice in Working with Violence, Chapter 11, pp 207-230. London: Jessica Kingsley.
  
  

• Woods, P. (2000). Social assessment of risk: the Behavioural Status Index. In: Mercer, D., Mason, T., McKeown, M., MacCann, G. (eds). Forensic Mental Health Care: a Case Study Approach, Chapter 12, Key Issues in Forensic Care, pp.333-339. Edinburgh: Churchill Livingstone.
  
  

• Woods, P., Brooker, C., White, E. (2000). The Role of Forensic Nurses in the Community. In: Robinson, D., Kettles, A. (eds). Forensic Nursing and the Multidisciplinary Care of the Mentally Disordered Offender, Chapter 5, pp. 63-75. London: Jessica Kingsley.
  
  

• Almvik, R., Hatling, T., Woods, P. (2000). The Role of Forensic Nurses in Norway. In: Robinson, D., Kettles, A. (eds). Forensic Nursing and the Multidisciplinary Care of the Mentally Disordered Offender, Chapter 17, pp.227-239. London: Jessica Kingsley.
  
  

• Woods, P. (2001). Risk assessment and management. In: Dale, C., Thompson, T., Woods, P. (eds). Forensic Mental Health - Issues in Practice, Chapter 9, pp.85-97. London: Ballière Tindall.
  
  

• Woods, P. (2001). Incidents, reporting and management. In: Dale, C., Thompson, T., Woods, P. (eds). Forensic Mental Health - Issues in Practice, Chapter 10, pp.99-107. London: Ballière Tindall.
  
  

• Woods, P. (2001). Personality Disorders. In: Dale, C., Thompson, T., Woods, P. (eds). Forensic Mental Health - Issues in Practice, Chapter 16, pp.169-178. London: Ballière Tindall.
  
  

• Dale, C., Woods, P., Thompson, T. (2001) Nursing. In: Dale, C., Thompson, T., Woods, P. (eds). Forensic Mental Health - Issues in Practice, Chapter 3, pp.19-29. London: Ballière Tindall.
  
  

• Dale, C., Thompson, T., Woods, P. (2001). An overview. In: Dale, C., Thompson, T., Woods, P. (eds). Forensic Mental Health - Issues in Practice, Chapter 1, pp.1-8. London: Ballière Tindall.
  
  

• Musker, M., Woods, P., Dale, C. (2001). Mental illness. In: Dale, C., Thompson, T., Woods, P. (eds). Forensic Mental Health - Issues in Practice, Chapter 14, pp.151-160. London: Ballière Tindall.
  
   

• Kettles, A., Woods, P., Collins, M. (2002) Introduction. In: Kettles, A., Woods, P., Collins, M. (eds). Therapeutic Interventions for Forensic Mental Health Nurses, Chapter 1, pp.13-20. London: Jessica Kingsley.
  
   

• Woods, P., Collins, M., Kettles, A. (2002). Forensic nursing interventions and future directions for forensic mental health practice, Chapter 1, pp.240-245. In: Kettles, A., Woods, P., Collins, M. (eds). Therapeutic Interventions for Forensic Mental Health Nurses. London: Jessica Kingsley.

Book chapters in press

• Woods, P. (2002). Forensic Mental Health Problems. In: Norman, I.J., Ryrie, I. (eds). Mental Health Nursing: delivering the National Service Frameworks and beyond, Chapter 20. Buckingham: Open University Press

Edited books

• Dale, C., Thompson, T., Woods, P. (eds).  (2001). Forensic Mental Health - Issues in Practice. London: Ballière Tindall.
  
  

• Kettles, A., Woods, P., Collins, M. Therapeutic Interventions for Forensic Mental Health Nurses. London: Jessica Kingsley. (Contract issued to be delivered to the publisher by February 2001)

Edited book proposals submitted to publisher

• None at present

Book reviews

• Fernando, S., Ndegwa, D., Wilson, M. (1998) Forensic psychiatry, race and culture. Routledge, London - reviewed for Mental Health Care (published November 1998, vol 2, no 3, p. 110)
  
  

• Taylor, P.J., Swan, T. (eds). (1999). Couples in care and custody. Buterworth-Heinemann, Oxford - reviewed for Mental Health Care (published April 1999, vol 2, no 8, p. 285)
  
  

• Mason, T., Chandley, M. (1999). Managing violence and aggression: a manual for nurses and health care workers. Churchill Livingstone, Edinburgh - reviewed for Mental Health Care (published August 1999, vol 2, no 12, p. 428)
  
  

• Morgan, S. (1999). Assessing and managing risk: ring-bound training pack and practitioner’s handbook. Pavilion, Brighton - reviewed for Mental Health Care (published September 1999, vol 3, no 1, p. 32)
  
  

• Ryan, T. (ed). (1999). Managing crisis and risk in mental health nursing. Stanley Thornes, Cheltenham - reviewed for Mental Health Care (published October 1999, vol 3, no 2, p. 68)
  
  

• Chaloner, C., Coffey, M. (eds). (2000) Forensic mental health nursing: current approaches. Blackwell Science, Oxford - reviewed for Mental Health Practice (published February 2000, vol 3, no 5, p 37) 
  
  

• Mason, T.,  Mercer, D. (1999). A Sociology of the mentally disordered offender. Longman, reviewed for Mental Health Care (published April 2000, vol 3, no 8, p 281)

Reviewing

• Peer reviewer for the International Journal of Psychiatric Nursing Research
  
   

• Book and peer reviewer for Mental Health Practice
  
   

• Peer reviewer for International Journal of Nursing Studies
  
   

• Peer reviewer for Journal of Forensic Psychiatry
  
   

• Peer reviewer for Health and Social Care in the Community

Editorial boards

• The International Journal of Psychiatric Nursing Research
  
   

• Forensic Nursing Receiving Editor and Editorial Board Journal of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing

Forensic development on the internet

• Runs the Forensic Nursing Resource Homepage. This is recognised internationally as the foremost UK resource receiving an average of 600 visits a month from 40 different countries http://www.forensicnursing.org.uk/
  
  

• Participates as one of a panel of forensic nurses (internet based) for the “Health Care in Correctional and Forensic Psychiatric Populations course no 1362”; and the Forensic Nursing Resource Homepage is utilised as readings and resources for the “Forensic Community Studies course no 3.30”, at the Mount Royal College, Forensic Health Studies, Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
  
  

• Developed the website for the Virtual Institute for Severe Personality Disorder (VISPED), a major National initiative from the Department of Health’s National Programme on Forensic Mental Health Research and Development.
  
  

• Developed and runs the website for the National Forensic Nurses Research and Development Group in the UK http://www.forensicnurse.org.uk/
  
  

• Developed and runs the website for the Forensic Psychiatric Nurses Association (FPNA) http://www.fpna.co.uk/

Interests and activities

• Research
  
  

• Risk assessment
  
  

• Assessment in forensic care, especially insight and communication and social skills
  
  

• Offending behaviour of mentally disordered offenders
  
  

• Development of forensic nursing
  
  

• Computers
  
  

• Statistics