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Research
Latest papers
Prevalence of Mental Health Needs, Substance Use, and Co-occurring Disorders Among People Admitted to Prison.
Psychiatric services (Washington, D.C.) · 2022
The relationship between outpatient service use and emergency department visits among people treated for mental and substance use disorders: analysis of population-based administrative data in British Columbia, Canada.
BMC health services research · 2022
A narrative review of the effectiveness of aggression management training programs for psychiatric hospital staff.
Journal of forensic nursing · 2010 · senior author
Latest funding
- $35,000
Trauma-Informed Transitions: Evaluating the Role of Care Continuity in Supporting Women's Recovery Across Treatment Phases
CIHR · 2025 · Supervisor
- $1,266,076
Improving health and criminal justice outcomes through community, hope and healing: An evaluation of BC's prison based therapeutic community using a mixed methods research design
CIHR · 2024 · Principal investigator
- $6,000
oComplex and concurrent disorders in the provincial Correctional system in British COlumbia
CIHR · 2019 · Supervisor
3 publications.
Prevalence of Mental Health Needs, Substance Use, and Co-occurring Disorders Among People Admitted to Prison.
Butler A, Nicholls T, Samji H, Fabian S, Lavergne MR
The relationship between outpatient service use and emergency department visits among people treated for mental and substance use disorders: analysis of population-based administrative data in British Columbia, Canada.
Lavergne MR, Loyal JP, Shirmaleki M, Kaoser R, Nicholls T, Schütz CG, Vaughan A, Samji H, Puyat JH, Kaulius M, Jones W, Small W
A narrative review of the effectiveness of aggression management training programs for psychiatric hospital staff.
Livingston JD, Verdun-Jones S, Brink J, Lussier P, Nicholls T
Trauma-Informed Transitions: Evaluating the Role of Care Continuity in Supporting Women's Recovery Across Treatment Phases
Principal investigators: Kiddie, Ekatrina
Keywords: Continuity Of Care; Gender-Responsive Services; Health Services Evaluation; Mental Health Outcomes; Mixed-Methods Research; Program Evaluation; Substance Use Disorders; Transitional Housing And Treatment; Trauma-Informed Care; Women'S Health
Improving health and criminal justice outcomes through community, hope and healing: An evaluation of BC's prison based therapeutic community using a mixed methods research design
Principal investigators: Butler, Amanda L; Nicholls, Tonia L
Keywords: Administrative Data; Interviews; Mixed Methods; Prisons; Qualitative Methods; Quantitative Methods; Substance Use Disorder; Substance Use Treatment; Surveys; Therapeutic Communities
oComplex and concurrent disorders in the provincial Correctional system in British COlumbia
Principal investigators: Butler, Amanda L
Keywords: British Columbia; Correctional System; Health Science
Complex and concurrent disorders in the provincial Correctional system in British Columbia: a retrospective cohort study of over 200,000 cases over 10 years
Principal investigators: Butler, Amanda L
Keywords: Concurrent Disorders; Correctional Mental Health; Cox Proportional Hazards Model; Forensic Psychiatry; Jail Screening Assessment Tool; Mental Health; Mental Health Policy; Quantitative Research; Substance Use
Improving Systems of Service to People with Complex and Concurrent Mental Disorders and Substance Use Disorders
Principal investigators: Goldner, Elliot M; Hughes, Doug
Keywords: Complex Concurrent Disorders; Crisis Response; Health Care Services; Health Economics; Inappropriate Use Of Services; Interrupted Time Series; Mental Disorders; Policing; Qualitative Research; Substance Use Disorders
The influence of personality disorder upon the risk of problem behaviours in a "remnant population" of chronic residential psychiatric patients undergoing transfer to community care
Principal investigators: Greig, Duncan G
Keywords: Deinstitutionalization; Health Behaviours; Health Services; Hospitalization; Longitudinal; Mental Health Issues; Self Harm; Substance Use; Violence
Toward Reducing the Risk for Violence-Related Adverse Events among People with Major Mental Disorders: A Prospective, Repeated-Measures Study
Principal investigators: Douglas, Kevin S
Keywords: Longitudinal Cohort Design; Mental Health; Risk Reduction; Suicide-Related Behaviour; Victimization; Violence
From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.
Frequent collaborators
- Criminology
- Psychiatry
- Health Sciences
- Other
Co-authors at Simon Fraser University, colored by department. Thicker lines mean more shared papers; select anyone to open their profile and their own map.
Tonia Nicholls
Psychiatry
3 shared papers, latest 2022
Hasina Samji
Faculty
2 shared papers, latest 2022
Hasina Samji
Health Sciences
2 shared papers, latest 2022
William Small
Faculty
1 shared papers, latest 2022
William Small
Faculty
1 shared papers, latest 2022
Amanda Butler
Criminology
1 shared papers, latest 2022
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