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Kevin Howells
Researcher at University of Nottingham
Publications - 6
Citations - 596
Kevin Howells is an academic researcher from University of Nottingham. The author has contributed to research in topics: Construct validity & Test validity. The author has an hindex of 5, co-authored 6 publications receiving 550 citations. Previous affiliations of Kevin Howells include University of South Australia.
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Readiness for anger management: clinical and theoretical issues.
Kevin Howells,Andrew Day +1 more
TL;DR: It is argued that an important impediment to the future success of anger management is the failure to fully address the issue of treatment readiness, which requires greater attention to the measurement and analysis of readiness.
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EssenCES, a short questionnaire for assessing the social climate of forensic psychiatric wards
TL;DR: The climate questionnaire is an economic and valid instrument for assessing the ward atmosphere in forensic psychiatry and findings from a pilot study in England give confidence to the structural validity of the English version too.
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The EssenCES measure of social climate: A preliminary validation and normative data in UK high secure hospital settings
Kevin Howells,Matthew Tonkin,Christine Milburn,Jessica Lewis,Simon Draycot,John Cordwell,Miranda Price,Steffan Davies,Norbert Schalast +8 more
TL;DR: Preliminary data suggest that the English version of EssenCES may be a valid tool for assessing the social climate of high secure hospital settings in the UK, but a larger research study is required, covering a wider range of psychiatric disorders, types of service and levels of security.
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Lost in translation? Psychometric properties and construct validity of the English Essen Climate Evaluation Schema (EssenCES) social climate questionnaire.
Matthew Tonkin,Kevin Howells,Eamonn Ferguson,Amanda Clark,Michelle Newberry,Norbert Schalast +5 more
TL;DR: Psychometric properties (factor structure and internal consistency) and an examination of construct validity with the English EssenCES are presented and evidence to support construct validity was established using multilevel models.
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Challenges in the treatment of dangerous and severe personality disorder
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors describe the background to the DSPD initiative in England and consider issues that arise in planning and delivering treatment services, and suggest that ongoing evaluation of treatments is critical in this area of practice, given the impoverished knowledge base.