Dr Giles Newton-Howes, Our people, University of Otago, Wellington, University of Otago, New Zealand

Senior Lecturer

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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.

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Publications

MacSorley, P., Gordon, S., Gardiner, T., & Newton-Howes, G. (2023). Awareness of the need for change: A constructivist grounded theory of medical students’ understanding of human rights in mental health. Health & Human Rights. Advance online publication.

Buchanan, M., Newton-Howes, G., McLeod, G., & Boden, J. (2023). Life course development following childhood adversity: Methods and findings from the Christchurch Health and Development Study. Longitudinal & Life Course Studies. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1332/175795921x16783739382061

Brown, T. A., Sellbom, M., Bach, B., & Newton-Howes, G. (2023). New Zealand (Aotearoa) clinicians' perspectives on the utility of the ICD-11 personality disorder diagnosis. Personality & Mental Health. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1002/pmh.1582

Lees, M., Newton-Howes, G., Frampton, C., & Beaglehole, B. (2023). Variation in the use of compulsory community treatment orders between district health boards in New Zealand. Australasian Psychiatry. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1177/10398562231157246

De Salis, H. F., Martin, R., Mansoor, Z., Newton-Howes, G., & Bell, E. (2023). A realist review of residential treatment for adults with substance use disorder. Drug & Alcohol Review. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1111/dar.13615

Newton-Howes, G., & Davidson, K. (2009). Management of personality disorder. In M. G. Gelder, N. C. Andreasen, J. J. Lópes-Ibor, Jr & J. R. Geddes (Eds.), New Oxford textbook of psychiatry (Vol. 1). (2nd ed.) (pp. 901-910). Oxford University Press.

Chapter in Book - Research

Newton-Howes, G., & Tyrer, P. (2009). Personality disorders. In I. M. Salloum & J. E. Mezzich (Eds.), Psychiatric diagnosis: Challenges and prospects. (pp. 135-140). Oxford, UK: Wiley Blackwell.

Chapter in Book - Research

Newton-Howes, G. (2006). Pharmacology and personality disorders. In M. J. Sampson, R. A. McCubbin & P. Tyrer (Eds.), Personality disorder and community mental health teams: A practitioner's guide. (pp. 143-160). Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons.

Chapter in Book - Research

Newton-Howes, G., & Wood, R. (2015). Cognitive behavioural therapy and the psychopathology of schizophrenia: Systematic review and meta-analysis (Vol. 5). In G. Davey (Ed.), Psychopathology & abnormal psychology. (pp. 47-59). Sage.

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Beaglehole, B., Newton-Howes, G., Porter, R., & Frampton, C. (2023). The association between Compulsory Community Treatment Order status and mortality in New Zealand. BJPsych Open, 9, e15. doi: 10.1192/bjo.2022.629

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Boden, J. M., Foulds, J. A., Newton-Howes, G., & McKetin, R. (2023). Methamphetamine use and psychotic symptoms: Findings from a New Zealand longitudinal birth cohort. Psychological Medicine, 53, 987-994. doi: 10.1017/S0033291721002415

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Newton-Howes, G., Walker, S., & Pickering, N. J. (2023). Epistemic problems with mental health legislation in the doctor–patient relationship. Journal of Medical Ethics. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1136/jme-2022-108610

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Beaglehole, B., Newton-Howes, G., Porter, R., & Frampton, C. (2022). Impact of diagnosis on outcomes for compulsory treatment orders in New Zealand. BJPsych Open, 8, e145. doi: 10.1192/bjo.2022.547

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De Salis, H. F., Martin, R., Bell, E., & Newton-Howes, G. (2022). A realist evaluation of residential treatment of adults with substance use disorder: Development of an initial programme theory. Journal of Psychosocial Rehabilitation & Mental Health. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1007/s40737-022-00290-8

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Gordon, S., Gardiner, T., Gledhill, K., Tamatea, A., & Newton-Howes, G. (2022). From substitute to supported decision making: Practitioner, community and service-user perspectives on privileging will and preferences in mental health care. International Journal of Environmental Research & Public Health, 19, 6002. doi: 10.3390/ijerph19106002

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Newton-Howes, G., Daly, M., Cooney, J., Gledhill, K., & Gordon, S. (2022). Supported decision making teaching in New Zealand postgraduate psychiatry trainees. Australasian Psychiatry. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1177/10398562221100702

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Pickering, N. J., Newton-Howes, G., & Walker, S. (2022). Risk-related standards of competence are a nonsense. Journal of Medical Ethics. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1136/medethics-2021-108107

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Pickering, N., Newton-Howes, G., & Young, G. (2022). Harmful choices, the case of C, and decision-making competence. American Journal of Bioethics, 22(10), 38-50. doi: 10.1080/15265161.2021.1941422

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Bach, B., Brown, T. A., Mulder, R. T., Newton-Howes, G., Simonsen, E., & Sellbom, M. (2021). Development and initial evaluation of the ICD-11 personality disorder severity scale: PDS-ICD-11. Personality & Mental Health, (15), 223-236. doi: 10.1002/pmh.1510

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Beaglehole, B., Newton-Howes, G., & Frampton, C. (2021). Compulsory Community Treatment Orders in New Zealand and the provision of care: An examination of national databases and predictors of outcome. Lancet Regional Health: Western Pacific, 17, 100275. doi: 10.1016/j.lanwpc.2021.100275

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Boden, J. M., Crossin, R., Cook, S., Martin, G., Foulds, J. A., & Newton-Howes, G. (2021). Parenting and home environment in childhood and adolescence and alcohol use disorder in adulthood. Journal of Adolescent Health, 69, 329-334. doi: 10.1016/j.jadohealth.2020.12.136

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Every-Palmer, S., Kininmonth, L., Newton-Howes, G., & Gordon, S. (2021). Applying human rights and reducing coercion in psychiatry following service user-led education: A qualitative study. Health & Human Rights, 23(2), 239-251.

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Gordon, S. E., Kininmonth, L. A., Newton-Howes, G., Purdie, G. L., & Gardiner, T. (2021). A comparative analysis of two alternative programmes to counter stigma and discrimination associated with mental illness delivered to medical students. Australasian Psychiatry, 29(3), 357-360. doi: 10.1177/1039856220971935

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Hemmati, A., Newton-Howes, G., Falahi, S., Mostafavi, S., Colarusso, C. A., & Komasi, S. (2021). Personality pathology among adults with history of childhood sexual abuse: Study of the relevance of DSM-5 proposed traits and psychobiological features of temperament and character. Indian Journal of Psychological Medicine, 43(2), 135-143. doi: 10.1177/0253717620928813

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Newton-Howes, G., Senior, J., Beaglehole, B., Purdie, G. L., & Gordon, S. E. (2021). Does a comprehensive service user-led education programme effect more positive attitudes towards recovery and less stigmatising attitudes towards people with lived experience of mental distress in medical students? A comparative cohort study. Australian & New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry, 55(9), 903-910. doi: 10.1177/0004867420987886

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Oldfield, K., Ryan, J., Doppen, M., Kung, S., Braithwaite, I., & Newton-Howes, G. (2021). A systematic review of the label accuracy of cannabinoid-based products in regulated markets: Is what's on the label what's in the product? Australasian Psychiatry, 29(1), 88-96. doi: 10.1177/1039856220965334

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Bhagavan, C., Kung, S., Doppen, M., John, M., Vakalalabure, I., Oldfield, K., Braithwaite, I., & Newton-Howes, G. (2020). Cannabinoids in the treatment of insomnia disorder: A systematic review and meta-analysis. CNS Drugs, 34, 1217-1228. doi: 10.1007/s40263-020-00773-x

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Boden, J., Blair, S., & Newton-Howes, G. (2020). Alcohol use in adolescents and adult psychopathology and social outcomes: Findings from a 35-year cohort study. Australian & New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry, 54(9), 909-918. doi: 10.1177/0004867420924091

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Braithwaite, I., Bhagavan, C., Doppen, M., Kung, S., Oldfield, K., & Newton-Howes, G. (2020). Medicinal applications of cannabis/cannabinoids. Current Opinion in Psychology, 38, 1-10. doi: 10.1016/j.copsyc.2020.06.002

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Foulds, J. A., Boden, J. M., McKetin, R., & Newton-Howes, G. (2020). Methamphetamine use and violence: Findings from a longitudinal birth cohort. Drug & Alcohol Dependence, 207, 107826. doi: 10.1016/j.drugalcdep.2019.107826

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Newton-Howes, G., Cunningham, R., & Atkinson, J. (2020). Personality disorder prevalence and correlates in a whole of nation dataset. Social Psychiatry & Psychiatric Epidemiology, 56(4), 679-685. doi: 10.1007/s00127-020-01876-y

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Newton-Howes, G., Gordon, S., & Fedchuk, D. (2020). Making the World of Difference: A service user-led education programme reshaping the learning environment in psychiatry. Australasian Psychiatry, 28(2), 226-228. doi: 10.1177/1039856219878647

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Newton-Howes, G., Kininmonth, L., & Gordon, S. (2020). Substituted decision making and coercion: The socially accepted problem in psychiatric practice and a CRPD-based response to them. International Journal of Mental Health & Capacity Law, 26, 4-12. doi: 10.19164/ijmhcl.26.1091

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Newton-Howes, G., Savage, M. K., Arnold, R., Hasegawa, T., Staggs, V., & Kisely, S. (2020). The use of mechanical restraint in Pacific Rim countries: An international epidemiological study. Epidemiology & Psychiatric Sciences, 29, e190. doi: 10.1017/S2045796020001031

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Oldfield, K., Braithwaite, I., Beasley, R., Eathorne, A., Newton-Howes, G., & Semprini, A. (2020). Medical cannabis: Knowledge and expectations in a cohort of North Island New Zealand general practitioners. New Zealand Medical Journal, 133(1508), 12-28. Retrieved from https://www.nzma.org.nz/journal

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Boden, J. M., Newton-Howes, G., Foulds, J., Spittlehouse, J., & Cook, S. (2019). Trajectories of alcohol use problems based on early adolescent alcohol use: Findings from a 35 year population cohort. International Journal of Drug Policy, 74, 18-25. doi: 10.1016/j.drugpo.2019.06.011

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Newton-Howes, G. (2019). Do community treatment orders in psychiatry stand up to principalism: Considerations reflected through the prism of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics, 47(1), 126-133. doi: 10.1177/1073110519840492

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Newton-Howes, G., Cook, S., Martin, G., Foulds, J. A., & Boden, J. M. (2019). Comparison of age of first drink and age of first intoxication as predictors of substance use and mental health problems in adulthood. Drug & Alcohol Dependence, 194, 238-243. doi: 10.1016/j.drugalcdep.2018.10.012

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Newton-Howes, G., Pickering, N., & Young, G. (2019). Authentic decision-making capacity in hard medical cases. Clinical Ethics, 14(4), 173-177. doi: 10.1177/1477750919876248

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Beaglehole, B., Mulder, R. T., Frampton, C. M., Boden, J. M., Newton-Howes, G., & Bell, C. J. (2018). Psychological distress and psychiatric disorder after natural disasters: Systematic review and meta-analysis. British Journal of Psychiatry, 213(6), 716-722. doi: 10.1192/bjp.2018.210

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Ford, K., Foulds, J., Coleman, O., Ardagh, M., Pearson, S., Droste, N., Newton-Howes, G., & Sellman, J. D. (2018). Alcohol-related emergency department attendances after the introduction of the Sale and Supply of Alcohol Act 2012. New Zealand Medical Journal, 131(1483), 40-49. Retrieved from https://www.nzma.org.nz/journal

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Guy, N., Newton-Howes, G., Ford, H., Williman, J., & Foulds, J. (2018). The prevalence of comorbid alcohol use disorder in the presence of personality disorder: Systematic review and explanatory modelling. Personality & Mental Health, 12(3), 216-228. doi: 10.1002/pmh.1415

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Newton-Howes, G., Beverley, G., Ellis, P. M., Gordon, S., & Levack, W. (2018). What do final year medical students understand by the concept of recovery? A descriptive qualitative study. Academic Psychiatry, 42(3), 382-385. doi: 10.1007/s40596-017-0823-0

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Newton-Howes, G., Mulder, R., Ellis, P. M., Boden, J. M., & Joyce, P. (2018). Predictive utility of personality disorder in depression: Comparison of outcomes and taxonomic approach. Journal of Personality Disorders, 32(4), 513-526. doi: 10.1521/pedi_2017_31_311

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Olajide, K., Munjiza, J., Moran, P., O'Connell, L., Newton-Howes, G., Bassett, P., … Mulder, R., & Crawford, M. J. (2018). Development and psychometric properties of the Standardized Assessment of Severity of Personality Disorder (SASPD). Journal of Personality Disorders, 32(1), 44-56. doi: 10.1521/pedi_2017_31_285

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Callaghan, S., & Newton-Howes, G. (2017). Coercive community treatment in mental health: An idea whose time has passed? Journal of Law & Medicine, 24(4), 900-914.

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Every-Palmer, S., Newton-Howes, G., & Clarke, M. J. (2017). Pharmacological treatment for antipsychotic-related constipation (Review). Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, 1, CD011128. doi: 10.1002/14651858.CD011128.pub2

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Foulds, J. A., Boden, J. M., Newton-Howes, G., Mulder, R. T., & Horwood, L. J. (2017). The role of novelty seeking as a predictor of substance use disorder outcomes in early adulthood. Addiction, 112(9), 1629-1637. doi: 10.1111/add.13838

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Foulds, J., Newton-Howes, G., Guy, N. H., Boden, J. M., & Mulder, R. T. (2017). Dimensional personality traits and alcohol treatment outcome: A systematic review and meta-analysis. Addiction, 112(8), 1345-1357. doi: 10.1111/add.13810

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Herpertz, S. C., Huprich, S. K., Bohus, M., Chanen, A., Goodman, M., Mehlum, L., … Newton-Howes, G., … Sharp, C. (2017). The challenge of transforming the diagnostic system of personality disorders. Journal of Personality Disorders, 31(5), 577-589. doi: 10.1521/pedi_2017_31_338

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Newton-Howes, G., Foulds, J. A., Guy, N. H., Boden, J. M., & Mulder, R. T. (2017). Personality disorder and alcohol treatment outcome: Systematic review and meta-analysis. British Journal of Psychiatry, 211(1), 22-30. doi: 10.1192/bjp.bp.116.194720

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Foulds, J. A., Mulder, R. T., Newton-Howes, G., Adamson, S. J., Boden, J. M., & Sellman, J. D. (2016). Personality predictors of drinking outcomes in depressed alcohol-dependent patients. Alcohol & Alcoholism, 51(3), 296-301. doi: 10.1093/alcalc/agv122

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