Nick Heather
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 255805 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Nick Heather |
| PRENOMES | Nick |
| SOBRENOME | Heather |
| ASSINATURA | HEATHER N |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Northumbria University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7382-863X |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 28 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 1 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 27 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1977 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 1 |
Look away now! Defensive processing and unrealistic optimism by level of alcohol consumption
Objective Health risk information is insufficient as a means of reducing alcohol use, particularly when it evokes negative emotional states amongst those for whom it is most personally relevant. Appraisal biases, or ‘defensive processing’, may be employed to mitigate the psychological discomfort posed by such information. Few studies have evaluated the role of defensive processing in people with different levels of alcohol consumption.Design Onli…
Challenging the brain disease model of addiction
Challenging the brain disease model of addiction: European launch of the addiction theory network
Treating Addictive Behaviors
Understanding addiction
The aims of this article are threefold: (i) to show how the work of American philosopher, Donald Davidson can throw light on the concept of addiction; (ii) to argue thereby that addiction is not a myth; and (iii) to help understand the addicted person's experience of feeling compelled to behave repeatedly in ways she does not want. Addictive behaviour is obviously intentional and this had led some to argue that addiction is a myth. In contrast, w…
A plague on both your houses”
The relationship between membership of a university sports group and drinking behaviour among students at English Universities
Aims \nThe primary aim is to report on whether or not students who are members of UK university sport groups drink more heavily and/or are more at risk for alcohol-related harm than students not engaged in university sport. A secondary aim is to compare alcohol consumption levels and alcohol-related problems in UK university athletes involved in firstly sports broadly differentiated as team or individual and secondly competing at different levels…
Implementing Brief Interventions in Health Care
The Risk Drinking Project was a national implementation endeavour in Sweden, carried out from 2004 to 2010, based on a government initiative to give alcohol issues a more prominent place in routine primary, child, maternity and occupational health care. The article describes and analyses the project. Critical factors that were important for the results are identified. The magnitude of the project contributed to its reach and impact in terms of pr…
Predictors of response to brief intervention in general practice against long-term benzodiazepine use
To predict the response of mostly elderly patients to brief intervention against long-term benzodiazepine (BZD) use delivered in general medical practice from variables measured at baseline in a randomised controlled trial. \nLogistic regression was used to identify predictors of a complete cessation of BZD intake or a ‘clinically significant reduction’ by a half or more from baseline to 6 months follow-up among 183 patients who received a brief …
Screening and brief interventions for hazardous and harmful alcohol use in primary care
Current Controlled Trials ISRCTN06145674
Screening and brief interventions for hazardous and harmful alcohol use in probation services
ISRCTN 19160244
Randomised controlled trial of two brief interventions against long-term benzodiazepine use
Previous findings have indicated that a letter from a patient's General Practitioner (GP) and a short GP consultation leads to reduced intake among long-term benzodiazepine (BZD) users. To compare the cost-effectiveness and potential cost savings of these two brief interventions. Economic evaluation conducted alongside a prospective randomised controlled trial from the perspective of the NHS. A total of 273 long-term BZD users (=>6 mos) at seven …
Effects of alcohol and alcohol expectancy on perceptions of opposite-sex facial attractiveness in university students
Previous research has indicated that alcohol consumption increases the perceived attractiveness of opposite-sex faces. This may contribute to the known effects of alcohol on risky sexual behaviours. We investigated the effects of alcohol consumption on the perception of opposite-sex faces, whilst controlling for alcohol expectancy. In a balanced placebo design, males and females were allocated to one of the four groups: (1) told they would receiv…
A revised edition of the Readiness to Change Questionnaire [Treatment Version]
The UK Alcohol Treatment Trial provided an opportunity to examine the factor structure of the Readiness to Change Questionnaire–Treatment Version (RCQ[TV]) in a large sample (N = 742) of individuals in treatment for alcohol problems who were given the RCQ[TV] at baseline, 3-months and 12-months follow-up. Confirmatory factor analysis of the previously reported factor structure (5 items for each of Precontemplation, Contemplation and Action scales…
Controlled drinking, harm reduction and their roles in the response to alcohol-related problems
This article first distinguishes three meanings of the term ‘harm reduction’ in the literature on alcohol problems: a European sense in which a change in drinking is not necessarily required; an American sense which includes the controlled drinking (CD) goal of treatment; and a government policy sense in which it is seen as an alternative to whole population alcohol policies. The article then goes on to consider the roles of the CD goal and the h…
Introduction to the special issue
Motivational interviewing
Motivational Interviewing (MI) and its offshoots such as the Drinker's Check-up and Motivational Enhancement Therapy have become enormously popular in scientific and addiction treatment circles over the past decade. This article first addresses the reasons for this popularity and suggests that it is due to presumed cost-effectiveness, relevance to interventions in non-treatment-seeking populations, and the essential nature of addictions as motiva…
Randomised controlled trial of two brief interventions against long-term benzodiazepine use
Previous studies have reported that a letter from the patient's General Practitioner (GP) and a short GP consultation led to reduced intake among long-term benzodiazepine (BZD) users, with no evidence of a deterioration in general or mental health. We aimed to replicate these earlier findings in a single, prospective RCT and compare the effectiveness of the two brief interventions. 273 long-term BZD users (≥6 mos) identified from repeat prescript…
Leeds Dependence Questionnaire
The main aim of this study was to examine psychometric properties of the Leeds Dependence Questionnaire (LDQ) in a different and larger sample from that on which the instrument was developed. Data were taken from routine intake assessments (n=1681) of referrals to two UK addiction treatment services during an 18 month period. Principal components analyses for the total sample and for three substance category subsamples (alcohol, opioids, “other d…
Does the ICD 10 classification accurately describe subtypes of borderline personality disorder
The aim of the paper is to explore whether the division of borderline personality disorder, as described in the DSM classification, into impulsive and borderline subtypes of emotionally unstable personality disorder in the ICD classification of personality disorder, is a valid division. The self‐report questionnaire responses of 288 referrals to a personality disorder service were rated on each of the eight criteria for DSM‐III‐R diagnosis of bor…
Alcoholics Anonymous as a Mutual-help Movement-a Study in Eight Societies
Controlled evaluation of a brief intervention of HIV prevention among injecting drug users not in treatment
This study evaluated the effectiveness of a brief intervention (BI), a one-session motivational interview, in reducing HIV risk-taking behaviour among injecting drug users (IDU) not enrolled in any form of treatment for drug dependence. IDU were randomly assigned to either BI or a non-intervention control condition (NIC). One hundred and twenty-one subjects were successfully contacted for a 3-month follow-up and 88 subjects were followed up at 6 …
Development of a short ‘readiness to change’ questionnaire for use in brief, opportunistic interventions among excessive drinkers
Excessive drinkers (141) identified in medical settings who were not seeking help for an alcohol problem completed a questionnaire based on Prochaska and DiClemente's stages of change model. Principal components analysis revealed a clear factor structure corresponding to the ‘precontemplation’, ‘contemplation’ and ‘action’ stages of change. On this basis, a 12‐item ‘Readiness to change’ questionnaire was developed with satisfactory psychometric p…
Alcohol and Aggression (Book)
Treating Addictive Behaviors
The Misuse of Alcohol
Personal Illness in “Lifers” and the Effects of Long-Term Indeterminate Sentences
Journal Article PERSONAL ILLNESS IN “LIFERS” AND THE EFFECTS OF LONG-TERM INDETERMINATE SENTENCES Get access NICK HEATHER NICK HEATHER *Senior clinical psychologist, Tayside Area Psychology Department, Royal Dundee Liff Hospital'Dundee Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The British Journal of Criminology, Volume 17, Issue 4, October 1977, Pages 378–386, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.bjc.a046845 Publi…
Personal Illness in “Lifers” and the Effects of Long-Term Indeterminate Sentences
Journal Article PERSONAL ILLNESS IN “LIFERS” AND THE EFFECTS OF LONG-TERM INDETERMINATE SENTENCES Get access NICK HEATHER NICK HEATHER *Senior clinical psychologist, Tayside Area Psychology Department, Royal Dundee Liff Hospital'Dundee Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The British Journal of Criminology, Volume 17, Issue 4, October 1977, Pages 378–386, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.bjc.a046845 Publi…
An Empirical Test of ‘A Cultural Delusion of Alcoholics’
A study by Schaefer (1971) has been misreported as showing a relationship between alcoholics' beliefs and their behaviour when only a relationship between two beliefs had been demonstrated. Schaefer found that alcoholics who believed in the “first drink, then drunk” dictum were less likely to profess to be able to drink socially. The present study extends this finding by demonstrating that such alcoholics were less likely to be classified as harm…
British Journal of Addiction
Treating Addictive Behaviors
The Misuse of Alcohol
Alcohol and Aggression (Book)
Development of a short ‘readiness to change’ questionnaire for use in brief, opportunistic interventions among excessive drinkers
Excessive drinkers (141) identified in medical settings who were not seeking help for an alcohol problem completed a questionnaire based on Prochaska and DiClemente's stages of change model. Principal components analysis revealed a clear factor structure corresponding to the ‘precontemplation’, ‘contemplation’ and ‘action’ stages of change. On this basis, a 12‐item ‘Readiness to change’ questionnaire was developed with satisfactory psychometric p…
Controlled evaluation of a brief intervention of HIV prevention among injecting drug users not in treatment
This study evaluated the effectiveness of a brief intervention (BI), a one-session motivational interview, in reducing HIV risk-taking behaviour among injecting drug users (IDU) not enrolled in any form of treatment for drug dependence. IDU were randomly assigned to either BI or a non-intervention control condition (NIC). One hundred and twenty-one subjects were successfully contacted for a 3-month follow-up and 88 subjects were followed up at 6 …
Alcoholics Anonymous as a Mutual-help Movement-a Study in Eight Societies
Does the ICD 10 classification accurately describe subtypes of borderline personality disorder
The aim of the paper is to explore whether the division of borderline personality disorder, as described in the DSM classification, into impulsive and borderline subtypes of emotionally unstable personality disorder in the ICD classification of personality disorder, is a valid division. The self‐report questionnaire responses of 288 referrals to a personality disorder service were rated on each of the eight criteria for DSM‐III‐R diagnosis of bor…
Leeds Dependence Questionnaire
The main aim of this study was to examine psychometric properties of the Leeds Dependence Questionnaire (LDQ) in a different and larger sample from that on which the instrument was developed. Data were taken from routine intake assessments (n=1681) of referrals to two UK addiction treatment services during an 18 month period. Principal components analyses for the total sample and for three substance category subsamples (alcohol, opioids, “other d…
Randomised controlled trial of two brief interventions against long-term benzodiazepine use
Previous studies have reported that a letter from the patient's General Practitioner (GP) and a short GP consultation led to reduced intake among long-term benzodiazepine (BZD) users, with no evidence of a deterioration in general or mental health. We aimed to replicate these earlier findings in a single, prospective RCT and compare the effectiveness of the two brief interventions. 273 long-term BZD users (≥6 mos) identified from repeat prescript…
Motivational interviewing
Motivational Interviewing (MI) and its offshoots such as the Drinker's Check-up and Motivational Enhancement Therapy have become enormously popular in scientific and addiction treatment circles over the past decade. This article first addresses the reasons for this popularity and suggests that it is due to presumed cost-effectiveness, relevance to interventions in non-treatment-seeking populations, and the essential nature of addictions as motiva…
Controlled drinking, harm reduction and their roles in the response to alcohol-related problems
This article first distinguishes three meanings of the term ‘harm reduction’ in the literature on alcohol problems: a European sense in which a change in drinking is not necessarily required; an American sense which includes the controlled drinking (CD) goal of treatment; and a government policy sense in which it is seen as an alternative to whole population alcohol policies. The article then goes on to consider the roles of the CD goal and the h…
Introduction to the special issue
Randomised controlled trial of two brief interventions against long-term benzodiazepine use
Previous findings have indicated that a letter from a patient's General Practitioner (GP) and a short GP consultation leads to reduced intake among long-term benzodiazepine (BZD) users. To compare the cost-effectiveness and potential cost savings of these two brief interventions. Economic evaluation conducted alongside a prospective randomised controlled trial from the perspective of the NHS. A total of 273 long-term BZD users (=>6 mos) at seven …
Effects of alcohol and alcohol expectancy on perceptions of opposite-sex facial attractiveness in university students
Previous research has indicated that alcohol consumption increases the perceived attractiveness of opposite-sex faces. This may contribute to the known effects of alcohol on risky sexual behaviours. We investigated the effects of alcohol consumption on the perception of opposite-sex faces, whilst controlling for alcohol expectancy. In a balanced placebo design, males and females were allocated to one of the four groups: (1) told they would receiv…
A revised edition of the Readiness to Change Questionnaire [Treatment Version]
The UK Alcohol Treatment Trial provided an opportunity to examine the factor structure of the Readiness to Change Questionnaire–Treatment Version (RCQ[TV]) in a large sample (N = 742) of individuals in treatment for alcohol problems who were given the RCQ[TV] at baseline, 3-months and 12-months follow-up. Confirmatory factor analysis of the previously reported factor structure (5 items for each of Precontemplation, Contemplation and Action scales…
Screening and brief interventions for hazardous and harmful alcohol use in primary care
Current Controlled Trials ISRCTN06145674
Screening and brief interventions for hazardous and harmful alcohol use in probation services
ISRCTN 19160244
Implementing Brief Interventions in Health Care
The Risk Drinking Project was a national implementation endeavour in Sweden, carried out from 2004 to 2010, based on a government initiative to give alcohol issues a more prominent place in routine primary, child, maternity and occupational health care. The article describes and analyses the project. Critical factors that were important for the results are identified. The magnitude of the project contributed to its reach and impact in terms of pr…
Predictors of response to brief intervention in general practice against long-term benzodiazepine use
To predict the response of mostly elderly patients to brief intervention against long-term benzodiazepine (BZD) use delivered in general medical practice from variables measured at baseline in a randomised controlled trial. \nLogistic regression was used to identify predictors of a complete cessation of BZD intake or a ‘clinically significant reduction’ by a half or more from baseline to 6 months follow-up among 183 patients who received a brief …
The relationship between membership of a university sports group and drinking behaviour among students at English Universities
Aims \nThe primary aim is to report on whether or not students who are members of UK university sport groups drink more heavily and/or are more at risk for alcohol-related harm than students not engaged in university sport. A secondary aim is to compare alcohol consumption levels and alcohol-related problems in UK university athletes involved in firstly sports broadly differentiated as team or individual and secondly competing at different levels…
Treating Addictive Behaviors
Understanding addiction
The aims of this article are threefold: (i) to show how the work of American philosopher, Donald Davidson can throw light on the concept of addiction; (ii) to argue thereby that addiction is not a myth; and (iii) to help understand the addicted person's experience of feeling compelled to behave repeatedly in ways she does not want. Addictive behaviour is obviously intentional and this had led some to argue that addiction is a myth. In contrast, w…
Psychology (21 obras) · Substance Abuse Treatment and Outcomes (16 obras) · Psychiatry (14 obras) · Medicine (13 obras) · Clinical Psychology (10 obras) · Social Psychology (10 obras) · Addiction (7 obras) · Psychological intervention (7 obras) · Alcohol (6 obras) · Clinical Psychology (6 obras)