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Contact Details

Email
giles.newton-howes@otago.ac.nz
Position
Associate Professor
Department
Department of Psychological Medicine (Wellington)
Research summary
Psychiatry

Research

Giles trained in psychiatry at Imperial College in London, undertaking five years of clinical work in the Hawke’s Bay before accepting a role in the Department of Psychological Medicine. He is a general adult consultant psychiatrist with a sub-specialty in substance misuse psychiatry. His research interests include the clinical understanding of personality disorders, particularly as they relate to psychiatric patients and mental state disorder. He is also interested in the interface between psychiatry and society, particularly the application of coercive practices.

He is a member of the International Society for the Study of Personality Disorders and the Australasian Society for Psychiatric Research. He is one of the systematic reviews editors of the British Journal of Psychiatry and sits on the board of the British Journal of Psychiatry and The Psychiatrist.

At the University he is responsible for the sixth year program in psychological medicine in Wellington. He is an accredited examiner for the RANZCP and works as a consultant psychiatrist for CCDHB in the Regional Personality Disorder Service.

Publications

Newton-Howes, G., Lenagh-Glue, J., Thom, K., Gordon, S., Glue, P., & Tamatea, A. (2026). Use of advance directives to facilitate supported decision-making in mental healthcare: Learnings from Aotearoa New Zealand. BJPsych International. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1192/bji.2026.10097 Journal - Research Article

Gordon, S., Tamatea, A., Thom, K., O'Brien, A., Newton-Howes, G., Lenagh-Glue, J., … Glue, P. (2026). Realising the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities with Mental Health Advance Directives [Review]. International Journal of Mental Health Nursing, 35(2), e70237. doi: 10.1111/inm.70237 Journal - Research Article

Belayneh, Z., Lee, D.-C. A., Petrakis, M., Aluh, D., Onu, J. U., Newton-Howes, G., … Haines, T. P. (2025). Diverging views between clinicians, service users, family caregivers and researchers on the classification of restrictive practices in mental health services. Epidemiology & Psychiatric Sciences, 34, 359. doi: 10.1017/s2045796025100322 Journal - Research Article

Kisely, S., Bull, C., Newton-Howes, G., Zirnsak, T., Edan, V., Lawn, S., … Brophy, L. (2025). Restricting community treatment orders to people with non-affective psychosis is needed to reduce use and improve subsequent outcomes: Queensland-wide cohort study. British Journal of Psychiatry. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1192/bjp.2025.10317 Journal - Research Article

Newton-Howes, G., & Beaglehole, B. (2025). Coercive, treatment or sensible: What is the place of community treatment orders in psychiatry? Australian & New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1177/00048674251331450 Journal - Research Other

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