Prof. Fredrick William Hickling

Research Interests

• Evaluation of a multidisciplinary cultural therapy team approach as a risk-reduction intervention in violence and high-risk behaviours at an inner-city school in Kingston, Jamaica
• An evaluation of homelessness in Jamaica
• Comparing the efficiency of Community Health services in two parishes in Jamaica
• Development of Low Cost Community-based Intervention Programmes for the Severely Mentally Ill: A Feasibility Study
• The Role of Family as Case Managers in the Mental Health Care Services
• Sociodemographic Characteristics of Deportees in Community Residential Facilities
• An evaluation of an Assertive Outreach program in severely mentally ill patients in Birmingham, UK.
• Prevalence of Depression and its Co-morbidity in Jamaica
• The effect of a redesigned teaching curriculum on medical students' performance in the final examination at the University of the West Indies
• Analysis of the Objective Structured Clinical Examination in the UWI MBBS Examination
• Measuring the Co-morbidity of Substance Abuse, Violence, Psychopathology, Help-Seeking Behaviour and Attitudes towards Substance Abuse, Violence, Mental Illness and the Afflicted
• Outcome of homeless persons with mental illness, treated in two intervention programmes in Jamaica
• Documentation of Neuropsychiatric Research in the Caribbean
• Co-morbidity and depression in medical clinics at the University Hospital of the West Indies
• Suicide in Jamaica 1996-2002
• A prospective analysis of first contact patients seen in the Small Health Locality in Birmingham, UK
• A study of the use of open medical wards versus specialist psychiatric units for treatment of patients with acute psychoses
• A ten-year outcome study of first contact schizophrenia in Jamaica
• A survey of the emergency management of agitated or aggressive psychotic patients in two Kingston hospitals
• Psychohistoriographic short term psychotherapy
• A randomized double blind lpacebo controlled trial of a combination of Gingko biloba and ginseng (gincosan) in dementia of varying aetiology

Citations

Book, Whole

• Hickling, Frederick/ W. , Sorel, E.. Images of psychiatry: The Caribbean
• Hickling, Frederick W., Kahwa, Ishenkumba A., Munroe, Trevor, Shepherd, Verene, Wint, Alvin G. . Strategic challenges confronting UWI Mona: An analysis & response

Book, Chapter

• Hickling, Frederick W., Gibson, Roger. Philosophy and epistomology of Caribbean psychiatry
• Abel, Wendel, McCallum, Mylie, Hickling, Frederick W., Gibson, Roger. Mental services and public policy in Jamaica
• Hickling, Frederick W. Mental Health in the Caribbean - New Paradigms
• Hickling, Frederick W.. Mental health perspective of Cannabis use in Jamaica
• Hickling, Frederick W., Lolas, Fernando /Sorel, Eliot, Hutchinson, Gerard. Ethical Issues in Psychiatry: A Caribbean Perspective
• Gibson, Roger, Hickling, Frederick W., Matthies, Brigitte K.. Carimensa's Masters' degree in cultural therapy
• Hickling, Frederick W., Gibson, Roger. The history of Caribbean psychiatry

Journal, Article

• Lowe, Gillian, Lipps, Garth, Abel, Wendel D, Brown, A., Hickling, Frederick W.. Evaluation of Body Image Satisfaction Among Adolescents from Three High Schools in Kingston, Jamaica [Abstract]
• Hickling, Frederick W., Matthies, Brigitte K.. Training Clinical Psychologists at the University of the West Indies
• Rodgers Johnson, Pamela E. B.,, Hickling, Frederick W., Irons, Aggrey B., Johnson, B. K.. Retroviruses and schizophrenia in Jamaica
• Hickling, Frederick W., Hutchinson, Gerard. Postcolonialism and mental health: Understanding the roast breadfruit
• Hickling, Frederick W., McCallum, M., Nooks, L., Rodgers-Johnson, Pamela E.. The treatment of acute schizophrenia in open medical wards [abstract]
• Haynes, T., Hickling, Frederick W.. A five-year outcome study of first contact schizophrenia in Jamaica [abstract]
• Bernard, T., Hickling, Frederick W.. Social class and pathways to care among psychiatric clinic referrals at the University Hospital of the West Indies [abstract]
• Hickling, Frederick W., McCallum, M., Nooks, L., Rodgers-Johnson, Pamela E. . Treatment of acute schizophrenia in open general medical wards in Jamaica
• Hickling, Frederick W. , Matthies, B. The establishment of a clinical psychology postgraduate program at the UWI, Mona
• Hutchinson, Gerard, Hickling, Frederick W.. Problems in society, problem in psychiatry
• Morgan, Kai A., Chung, R., Gibson, R. C., Hickling, Frederick W.. Insights into the Psychosocial Health of Inner-City Youth Through Projective Drawings. [Abstract]
• Gibson, R.C., Chung, R., Morgan, Kai A., Robertson-Hickling, Hilary, Hickling, Frederick W.. Discourse Analysis and Film Semiotics in an Adolescent Mental Health Intervention [Abstract]
• Lowe, Gillian, Hickling, Frederick W.. Evaluation of the Effects of an Open-Door Policy on the Clinical Outcome of Patients Treated in a Psychiatric Ward of a General Hospital. [Abstract]
• Hickling, Frederick W., Morgan, Kai A., Abel, Wendel D., Denbow, Charles E., Ali, Z., Nicholson, G. D., Sinquee, C.. A Comparison of the Objective Structured Clinical Examination Results Across Campuses of the University of the West Indies.
• Haynes, T., Hickling, Frederick W.. Relapse or Reintegration: A Ten-Year Outcome Study of Schizophrenia in Jamaica [Abstract]
• Lowe, G., Hickling, Frederick W.. Evaluation of the effects of an open-door-policy on the clinical outcome of patients treated in a psychiatric ward of a general hospital [abstract]
• De La Haye, W., Hickling, Frederick W.. Do clinicians in the University Hospital of the West Indies under-refer patients with psychiatric illness? [abstract]
• Abel, Wendel D., Lewis, E., McCallum, M., Hickling, Frederick W.. Evaluation of community treatment programmes for the homeless mentally ill in Jamaica [abstract ]
• Shetty, G. T., Samms-Vaughan, Maureen E., Hickling, Frederick W.. A Study of Psychosocial Factors Affecting Jamaican Children with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder [Abstract]
• Hickling, Frederick W., Ratnayake,T.. Evaluating a Jamaican model of assertive community treatment in severe mentally ill patients in the UK [abstract]
• Abel, Wendel D., Morgan, Kai A., Hickling, Frederick W.. Evaluating the impact of redesigning the psychiatric undergraduate curriculum on medical students' performance in the final MBBS examination at the University of the West Indies, Mona [abstract]
• Deslandes, V., Little, M., Hickling, Frederick W.. Descriptive analysis of a community mental health service at the University Hospital of the West Indies [abstract]
• Hickling, Frederick W., McKenzie, K., Mullen, R., Murray, R. . A Jamaican psychiatrist evaluates diagnoses at a London psychiatric hospital
• Hickling, Frederick W. . Medical research at the Faculty of Medical Sciences, UWI, Mona Campus 1960-1990
• Abel, Wendel D, Bourne, Paul A, Hamil, Hayden K, Thompson, Eulalee M, Martin, Jacqueline S, Gibson, Roger C, Hickling, Frederick W.. A public health and suicide risk in Jamaica from 2002 to 2006.
• Abel, Wendel D., Pierre, Russell B., Barton-Forbes, Michelle, Hickling, Frederick W.. Interviewing Skills of Students in the Final Psychiatry Objective Structured Clinical Examination (OSCE) [Abstract]
• Abel, Wendel D, Denbow, Charles E., Ali, Z., Dockery, K., Hickling, Frederick W.. Reliability and Validity of the Final Examination in Medicine and Therapeutics at the University of the West Indies [Abstract]
• Lowe, Gillian, Hickling, Frederick W.. Evaluation of the Clinical Outcome of Patients Treated in the Psychiatric Ward of a General Hospital Followed by a Community Mental Health Programme on Discharge from Hospital [Abstract]
• Hickling, Frederick W., De La Haye, Winston. The Treatment of Personality Disorder with Psycho-Historiographic Psychotherapy [Abstract]
• Morris, A., Abel, Wendel D, Pierre, Russell B., Hickling, Frederick W.. Students' Performance in the Final Objective Structured Clinical Examination (OSCE) [Abstract]
• Lowe, Gillian, Halliday, S., Hickling, Frederick W.. Evaluation of a Community Mental Health Aftercare Programme for Acute Mentally Ill Patients in a Psychiatric Ward of a General Hospital [Abstract]
• Hickling, Frederick W., De La Haye, Winston. The Treatment of Personality Disorder in Jamaica with Psychohistoriographic Brief Psychotherapy [Abstract]
• Hickling, Frederick W.. Community Psychiatry in the Caribbean [Abstract]
• Oo, M.K., Hickling, Frederick W.. A study of post-traumatic stress disorder among Jamaica Constabulary Force personnel in a given geographical area in Jamaica [abstract]
• Abel, W.D., Gibson, R. C., Hickling, Frederick W.. Depression: A major public health problem facing the Caribbean
• Lowe, G., Hickling, Frederick W.. A psychosocial profile of absconders from a psychiatric unit of a general hospital [abstract]
• Lowe, Gillian, Lipps, Garth, Abel, Wendel D, Brown, A., Hickling, Frederick W.. A Socio-Demographic Profile of 4th Form Students Screened for Depression in Three High Schools in Kingston [Abstract]
• Abel, Wendel .D., Aquart, Althea, Morris, A., Gibson, R.C., Hickling, Frederick W.. Medical Students' Performance in the Final Examination in Medicine and Therapeutics [Abstract]
• Lowe, Gillian, Lipps, Garth, Abel, Wendel D., Brown, A., Hickling, Frederick W.. Depression Among Fourth Form Students inThree High Schools in Kingston [Abstract]
• Hickling, Frederick W.. From Explanitations and Madnificent Irations to de Culcha Clash
• Chung, R., Hickling, Frederick W.. The use of art therapy as an indicator of recovery in acute mentally ill patients [abstract]
• Hickling, Frederick W., McCallum, M. , Nooks, L., Rodgers-Johnson, Pamela E. . Outcome of first contact schizophrenia in Jamaica
• Ward, T. , Hickling, Frederick W. Psychology in the English-speaking Caribbean
• De La Haye, W., Hickling, Frederick W.. Utilization of liaison psychiatric services in a general hospital in Jamaica [abstract]
• Ward, A., Matthies, B., Wright, E., Crossman, L., Hickling, Frederick W.. Validation of the Zung depression scale in a Jamaican population [abstract]
• Hickling, Frederick. W. , Abel, Wendel D. , Garner, P. , Rathbone, J. . Open general medical wards versus specialist psychiatric units for acute psychoses
• Hickling, Frederick W.. The epidemiology of schizophrenia and other common mental health disorders in the English-speaking Caribbean
• Garvey, D.M., Hickling, Frederick W.. Attitudes of patients and staff to the implementation of an open door policy in a psychiatric unit of a general hospital [abstract]
• Whitley, Rob, Hickling Frederick W.. Open papers, Open minds? Media representation of psychiatric de-institutionalization in Jamaica
• Robertson-Hickling, Hilary, Hickling, Frederick W.. The need for mental health partnerships in Jamaica
• Morgan, Kai A., Hickling, Frederick W.. Stimulating research output in the Section of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medical Sciences, The University of the Indies, Mona [abstract]
• Hickling, Frederick W., Cochrane, R., Birchwood, M.. Comparative outcome of patients with first-contact schizophrenia in Jamaica and the UK [abstract]
• Hickling, Frederick W. . The political misuse of psychiatry: An African-Caribbean perspective
• Hickling, Frederick W., Hutchinson, Gerard. The roast breadfruit psychosis: Disturbed racial identification in African Caribbeans
• Abel, Wendel D., Fox, Kristin, Forrester, S., Hickling, Frederick W.. Antisocial and Aggresssive Behaviour: Prevalence and Risk Factors [Abstract]
• Abel, Wendel D., Halliday, S., McCallum, M., Gibson, R.C., Hickling, Frederick W.. Knowledge and Attitude of Health Workers Towards Mental Health [Abstract]
• Haynes, T., Barton, Everard N., Hickling, Frederick W.. The Prevalence of Depression and Anxiety among End Stage Renal Patients Treated with Haemodialysis at the University Hospital of the West Indies. [Abstract]
• Hickling, Frederick W., Lipps, Garth. Tracking Professorial Appointments in the Faculty of Medical Sciences at the University of the West Indies, Mona Campus [Abstract]
• Abel, Wendel D., Hickling, Frederick W. A comparative study of outcome of clients in a community residential facility and mental hospital in Jamaica [abstract]
• Gibson, R. C. , Morgan, K. A. , Abel, W. D. , Hickling, Frederick W. . Changing the research culture at the Section of Psychiatry, the University of the West Indies, Mona
• Abel, Wendel D., Milbourn, P., Sewell, C., Gibson, R.C., Hickling, Frederick W.. Characteristics of Abused Children and Adolescents Attending a Specialised Clinic [Abstract]
• Gibson, R. C., Chung, R., Morgan, Kai A., Hickling, Frederick W.. The Constructed Realities of Jamaican Inner-City Youth: Public Health Implications [Abstract]
• Gibson, R. C. , Abel, W. D. , White, S. , Hickling, Frederick W. . Internalizing stigma associated with mental illness: findings from a general population survey in Jamaica

Conference Proceedings

• Walcott, G.O., Hickling, Frederick W., Abel, W., Martin-Cooke, J.. Prevalence of personality disorder in an impatient populationof the psychiatric service of the University Hospital of the West Indies
• Martin-Cooke, J.S., HIckling, Frederick W., Abel, W.D.. Validation of the Jamaican personality disorder inventory
• Oo, M.K., Hickling, Frederick W.. A study of post-traumatic stress disorder among Jamaica Constabulary Force personnel in a given geographical area of Jamaica
• Robertson-Hickling, Hilary, Abel, Wendel D., Hickling, Frederick W.. Evaluating the effectiveness of teams in the delivery of mental health in Jamaica

Electronic Citation

• Hickling, Frederick W., Abel, Wendel D., Garner, P.. Open General Medical Wards versus Specialist Psychiatric Units for Acute Psychoses