Heidi Hales
I have a dual training in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Forensic Psychiatry. Much of my work has focused on adolescent forensic mental health but I have also worked in Adult Forensic Psychiatry services and Child and Adolescent Mental Health services. Having worked as a Consultant Psychiatrist in HMYOI Feltham and HMYOI Cookham Wood, secure wards for adolescents at St Andrews Healthcare and West London NHS Trust, the West London Community Forensic CAMHS team, HMP Holloway and West London Adult Community Forensic Service, I am now more CAMHS and research focussed in North Wales. I have completed a PhD investigating the effects of contact with suicide-related behaviour on young people in YOIs and in 2016 I was part of a team funded by NHSE to complete a service evaluation and census of all young people from England in secure care. My main research interest is how to evaluate and improve prevention, early intervention, treatment and care for young people who are in contact with the youth justice services due to emotional, mental health or neurodevelopmental needs and how we can learn from care systems in different jurisdictions through an international research collaboration.
Book Chapters
- Ali, S., Delmage, E., Hales, H., Theodorou, A.. Child and Adolescent Forensic Mental Health Services. Seminars in Forensic Psychiatry. 2nd ed. Cambridge University Press: 2024. p. Chapter 17. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781911623809
Papers
- Sandiford M., Moran D., Smith, J., Hales, H. . Quantifying the experiences of Black and Dual Heritage young people in a forensic child and adolescent mental health service. BJPsych Bulletin. 2024. 8:1-9. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1192/bjb.2024.74
- Ross-Michaelides, R., Hales, H., Smith J, Sandiford, M., Sri, A. & Moran, D. . Missed opportunities to prevent risk of offending in young people with ADHD – a service evaluation from a central London FCAMHS service. The Journal of Forensic Psychiatry and Psychology, . 2024. 1-19. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/14789949.2024.2387719
- Theodorou, A., Sinclair, H., Ali, S., Sukhwal, S., Bassett, C., Hales, H.. A systematic review of literature on homicide followed by suicide and mental state of perpetrators. Criminal Behaviour and Mental Health. 2024. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/cbm.2322
- Pendlebury, G., Anderson, J., Hales, H., Harding, D. & Lewis, A. . Violent behaviour in adolescents: assessment and formulation using a structured risk assessment tool. BJPsych Advances . 2023. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1192/bja.2023.13
- Balasubramaniam, S., Smith, J.G., Hales, H. & Bartlett, A. . Medium Secure Mental Health Care for Young People: Decisions to Detain.. The Journal of Forensic Psychiatry and Psychology . 2023. 34(3-4): 401-415. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/14789949.2023.2245365
- Hales, H., Warner, L., Smith, J.G. & Bartlett, A. . Primary Neurodevelopmental Disorders in Detained Adolescents: point prevalence and patterns of care. Journal of Forensic Psychiatry and Psychology . 2022. 1-17. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/14789949.2022.2069587
- Souverein, F., Hales, H., Anderson, P., Argent, S., Bartlett, A., Blower, A., Delmage, E., Enell, S., Henriksen, A-K., Koomen, K. & Oostermeijer, S. . Mental Health, welfare or justice: An introductory global overview of differences between countries in the scale and approach to secure placements of children and young people. Criminal Behaviour and Mental Health . 2022. 32(3): 238-247. . DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/cbm.2234
- Smith, J.G., Bartlett, A. & Hales, H. . Exploration of adverse patterns of placement of young people in secure care. The unwanted child?. Criminal Behaviour and Mental Health. 2022. 32(3): 212-226. . DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/cbm.2234
- Bartlett, A., Smith, J., Warner, L. & Hales, H. Young men and young women in secure care: gender differences in the placement of those with mental health needs. BMC Psychiatry. 2021. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1186/s12888-021-03440-7
- Hales, H., Warner, L., Smith, J. & Bartlett, A. . Census of young people in secure settings on 14 September 2016: characteristics, needs and pathways of care.. NHS Gateway . 2018. DOI: https://www.england.nhs.uk/publication/secure-settings-for-young-people-a-national-scoping-exercise/
- Bartlett, A., Warner, L. & Hales, H. . Young people’s secure care: Professionals’ and parents’ views of its purpose, placement and practice. NHS Gateway . 2018. DOI: https://www.england.nhs.uk/publication/secure-settings-for-young-people-a-national-scoping-exercise/
- Warner, L., Hales, H., Smith, J. & Bartlett, A. . Secure settings for young people: a national scoping exercise. NHS Gateway. 2018. DOI: https://www.england.nhs.uk/publication/secure-settings-for-young-people-a-national-scoping-exercise/