Posted on February 13, 2008 by sjennings29
Psychotherapeutic treatments for older depressed people 23rd January 2008, Systematic Review
Abstract: The findings of this systematic review were based on a small number of trials, but do suggest that CBT may be of ‘potential benefit’. This conclusion correlates with the findings of a larger meta-analysis, which looked at a population with a broader age range.BackgroundDespite [...]
Filed under: CBT Cognitive Behaviour Therapy, Older People, Therapy, cochrane | Tagged: aged, cbt, cochrane, cognitive, depression, Older People, Psychotherapy, rct, systematic reviews, Therapy | No Comments »
Posted on February 13, 2008 by sjennings29
Cochrane Systematic Review - Psychosocial interventions for people with both severe mental illness and substance misuse, 23rd January 2008
The authors looked at 25 RCTs but none provided compelling evidence that any one psychological therapy was better than another at reducing substance use by people with severe mental illnesses.
Filed under: CBT Cognitive Behaviour Therapy, Drugs & Substance Misuse, OT - Occupational Therapy, Therapy, cochrane, mental health | Tagged: mental health, cbt, OT, patients, Therapy, cochrane, psychological, drug misuse, rct, severe mental illness, substance misuse | No Comments »
Posted on February 13, 2008 by sjennings29
Schizophrenia Today: Do we know any more, and can we treat it, Current Opinion in Psychiatry. 21(2):131-132, March 2008. DeLisi, Lynn E a; Fleischhacker, W Wolfgang B
Abstact: As we embark on another year of summing up the recent timely research on schizophrenia from 2007, we reflect on the past year and whether ‘current opinions’ [...]
Filed under: Schizophrenia | Tagged: brain imaging, change, collaboration, current, knowledge, pharmaceutical, research, Schizophrenia | No Comments »
Posted on February 13, 2008 by sjennings29
Occupational Therapy for Patients with Parkinson’s Disease, Dixon L, Duncan D, Johnson P, Kirkby L, O’Connell H, Taylor H, KHO Deane. Occupational therapy for patients with Parkinson’s disease. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews 2007, Issue 3.
Background
Despite drug and surgical therapies for Parkinson’s disease, patients develop progressive disability. It has both motor and non-motor symptomatology, [...]
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Posted on February 13, 2008 by sjennings29
Mental Health Act Commission Twelfth Biennial Report - Risk, Rights, Recovery
finds that there are severe funding issues faced by providers of mental health services in that:
Patients deemed to be a threat to themselves or others are being denied hospital beds while commissioners disagree with regard to funding.
The Mental Health Act Commission has found practitioners [...]
Filed under: Acts - Mental Health, grey literature | Tagged: commission, equality, grey litererature, health and safety, legislation, mental health, mental health act, patients, report, rights, services | No Comments »
Posted on February 13, 2008 by sjennings29
Inpatients’ perspectives of occupational therapy in acute mental health, Australian Occupational Therapy Journal (2007) 54, 22–32
Kee Hean Lim,1 Julia Morris2 and Christine Craik, School of Health Sciences and Social Care, Directorate of Occupational Therapy,Brunel University, Uxbridge,Middlesex, and 2South West London and St George’s Mental Health NHS Trust, Department of OccupationalTherapy, Springfield University Hospital, London, [...]
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