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Overview

John L. Taylor is affiliated with Northumbria University in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily focuses on psychology, with specializations in clinical psychology and related fields such as general health professions, social psychology, public health, environmental and occupational health, and sociology and political science.

Their publication record demonstrates engagement with a range of journals, notably:

  • International Journal of Law and Psychiatry
  • Pilot and Feasibility Studies
  • Counseling Outcome Research and Evaluation
  • BJPsych Bulletin
  • The Lancet Psychiatry

John L. Taylor's work covers several key topics including healthcare decision-making and restraints, child and adolescent health, psychotherapy techniques and applications, child abuse and trauma, healthcare innovation and challenges, art therapy and mental health, and research concerning Down syndrome and intellectual disability.

Frequent co-authors of Taylor include:

  • Carole Burrell
  • Simon Hackett
  • Ania Zubala
  • Katie Aafjes-van Doorn
  • Thomas Chadwick

Key recent publications by John L. Taylor feature:

  • Transforming care for people with intellectual disabilities and autism in England, 2021, The Lancet Psychiatry
  • A randomised controlled feasibility study of interpersonal art psychotherapy for the treatment of aggression in people with intellectual disabilities in secure care, 2020, Pilot and Feasibility Studies
  • Short report and initial evaluation of the factor structure of the Lancaster and Northgate Trauma Scales (LANTS), 2021, Research in Developmental Disabilities
  • Responsibility as professional leadership and decision making: Interviews with non-medical Responsible Clinicians, 2020, International Journal of Law and Psychiatry
  • Fathers' mental Ill-health and child maltreatment: A systematic review of the literature, 2023, Children and Youth Services Review

Best Publications

  • Individual cognitive-behavioural anger treatment for people with mild-borderline intellectual disabilities and histories of aggression: a controlled trial

    John L. Taylor;Raymond W. Novaco;Bruce T. Gillmer;Alison Robertson

  • Assessment of anger and aggression in male offenders with developmental disabilities.

    Raymond W. Novaco;John L. Taylor

  • Predicting future reconviction in offenders with intellectual disabilities: the predictive efficacy of VRAG, PCL-SV, and the HCR-20.

    Nicola Susan Gray;Suzanne Fitzgerald;John Taylor;Malcolm J. MacCulloch

  • Cognitive-behavioural treatment of anger intensity among offenders with intellectual disabilities

    John L. Taylor;Raymond W. Novaco;Bruce Gillmer;Ian Thorne

  • CBT for People with Intellectual Disabilities: Emerging Evidence, Cognitive Ability and IQ Effects

    John L. Taylor;William R. Lindsay;Paul Willner

  • Life events and psychiatric symptoms in adults with intellectual disabilities.

    Richard P. Hastings;C. Hatton;J. L. Taylor;C. Maddison

  • Risk Assessment in Offenders With Intellectual Disability: A Comparison Across Three Levels of Security

    William R. Lindsay;Todd E. Hogue;John L. Taylor;Lesley Steptoe

  • Predicting violent reconvictions using the HCR-20

    Nicola S. Gray;John Taylor;Robert Jefferson Snowden

  • A review of the assessment and treatment of anger and aggression in offenders with intellectual disability.

    J. L. Taylor

  • A comparison of offenders with intellectual disability across three levels of security

    Todd Hogue;Lesley R. Steptoe;Lesley R. Steptoe;John L. Taylor;William R. Lindsay;William R. Lindsay;William R. Lindsay

  • Anger Treatment for People with Developmental Disabilities: A Theory, Evidence and Manual Based Approach

    John L. Taylor;Raymond W. Novaco;Bruce T Gillmer;Alison Robertson

  • Evaluation of a group intervention for convicted arsonists with mild and borderline intellectual disabilities

    John L. Taylor;Ian Thorne;Alison Robertson;Ginny Avery

  • Two studies on the prevalence and validity of personality disorder in three forensic intellectual disability samples

    William R. Lindsay;Todd E. Hogue;John L. Taylor;Paul Mooney

  • The Effects of Traumatizing Life Events on People with Intellectual Disabilities: A Systematic Review

    Sarah Wigham;Chris Hatton;John L. Taylor

  • Screening for psychiatric symptoms: PAS-ADD Checklist norms for adults with intellectual disabilities

    J. L. Taylor;C. Hatton;L. Dixon;C. Douglas

  • Offenders with Developmental Disabilities

    William R. Lindsay;John L. Taylor;Peter Sturmey

  • Predictive validity of the PCL-R in offenders with intellectual disability in a high secure hospital setting: Institutional aggression

    Catrin Morrissey;Todd Hogue;Paul Mooney;Clare Allen

  • Pathways Into Services for Offenders with Intellectual Disabilities Childhood Experiences, Diagnostic Information, and Offense Variables

    William R. Lindsay;William R. Lindsay;Gregory O'Brien;Derek Carson;Anthony J. Holland

  • Predictive validity of the PCL-R for offenders with intellectual disability in a high security hospital: treatment progress.

    Catrin Morrissey;Paul Mooney;Todd E. Hogue;William R. Lindsay

  • Development of an imaginal provocation test to evaluate treatment for anger problems in people with intellectual disabilities

    John L. Taylor;Raymond W. Novaco;Claire Guinan;Nicola Street

  • Mental health problems in people with learning disabilities: prevention, assessment and management

    Sally Ann Coooper;Steve Pilling;Regi Alexander;Stella Ayettey

Frequent Co-Authors

William R. Lindsay
William R. Lindsay Abertay University
Raymond W. Novaco
Raymond W. Novaco University of California, Irvine
Chris Hatton
Chris Hatton Manchester Metropolitan University
Anthony J. Holland
Anthony J. Holland University of Cambridge
Richard P. Hastings
Richard P. Hastings University of Birmingham
Andrew Jahoda
Andrew Jahoda University of Glasgow
Clive R. Hollin
Clive R. Hollin University of Leicester
Nicola S. Gray
Nicola S. Gray Swansea University
Gillian Haddock
Gillian Haddock Manchester Academic Health Science Centre
Mark H. Freeston
Mark H. Freeston Newcastle University

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