Mental Health Act 2007 (Commencement No. 5 and Transitional Provisions) Order 2008 – guidance on transfers between places of safety

   Mental Health Act 2007 (Commencement No. 5 and Transitional Provisions) Order 2008 – guidance on transfers between places of safety, Department of Health, 24th April 2008, Service Guidance
The Mental Health Act 2007 (Commencement No. 5 and Transitional Provisions)  Order 2008 – S.I. No. 2008/800 (C.39) – brings section 44 of the Mental Health Act [...]

Further evidence of an association between adolescent bipolar disorder with smoking and substance use disorders: A controlled study

Further evidence of an association between adolescent bipolar disorder with smoking and substance use disorders: A controlled study, Drug and Alcohol Dependence, Volume 95, Issue 3, Pages 187-288 (1 June 2008)
Abstract:  Although previous work suggests that juvenile onset bipolar disorder increases risk for substance use disorders and cigarette smoking, the literature on the subject is [...]

British Journal of Nursing – Patients’ experience of privacy and dignity. Part 2: an empirical study

  Patients’ experience of privacy and dignity. Part 2: an empirical study
Juliet Whitehead, Herman Wheeler , British Journal of Nursing, Vol. 17, Iss. 7, 10 Apr 2008, pp 458 – 464
Abstract:  In May–June 2006, a self-report questionnaire was completed by 40 in-patients to assess their experience of privacy and dignity in hospital. The questionnaire comprised [...]

British Journal of Nursing – Patients’ experiences of privacy and dignity. Part 1: A literature review

  Patients’ experiences of privacy and dignity. Part 1: A literature review
Juliet Whitehead, Herman Wheeler,  British Journal of Nursing, Vol. 17, Iss. 6, 27 Mar 2008, pp 381 – 385
Abstract: This article reviews the literature on patients’ privacy and dignity and concludes that interest in the topic goes back to psychiatric patients in the 1960s, [...]

Dual Diagnosis – Psychosocial Treatment Programs for People With Both Severe Mental Illness and Substance Misuse

Psychosocial Treatment Programs for People With Both Severe Mental Illness and Substance Misuse , Schizophrenia Bulletin 2008 34: 226-228
Abstract:  Over 50% of people with a severe mental illness also use illicit drugs and/or alcohol at hazardous levels. This review is based on the findings of 25 randomized controlled trials which assessed the effectiveness of psychosocial [...]

Mindfulness Meditation for Alcohol Relapse Prevention: A Feasibility Pilot Study.

Mindfulness Meditation for Alcohol Relapse Prevention: A Feasibility Pilot Study.  Journal of Addiction Medicine. April 2008
Abstract:
Objectives: Meditation is a promising treatment for alcohol dependence. This 16-week prospective case series was designed to gather preliminary data about the efficacy of meditation for relapse prevention and to evaluate study methods feasibility.
Methods: Nineteen adult alcohol-dependent graduates of [...]

CBT & Schizophrenia – Cognitive Behavior Therapy for Schizophrenia: Effect Sizes, Clinical Models, and Methodological Rigor

Cognitive Behavior Therapy for Schizophrenia: Effect Sizes, Clinical Models, and Methodological Rigor , Schizophrenia Bulletin Advance Access, 2008 34: 523-537
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Abstract: Guidance in the United States and United Kingdom has included cognitive behavior therapy for psychosis (CBTp) as a preferred therapy. But recent advances have widened the CBTp targets [...]

People with profound and multiple learning disabilities: A review of research about their lives

People with profound and multiple learning disabilities: A review of research about their lives, MENCAP, Systematic Review
An overview of the literature published about the lives of people with profound and multiple learning disabilities (PMLD), their carers and families. It draws from sources including published papers in academic journals, published reports from charities and other voluntary [...]

Dysphagia – Administring Medication to people with dementia

Administering medication to people with dementia, Linda Nazarko
Nursing & Residential Care, Vol. 10, Iss. 1, 19 Dec 2007, pp 622 – 625
Abstract: Dementia related swallowing problems can result in difficulties in medication administration. Linda Nazarko explains how a problem solving approach can prevent nurses using covert medication.
Concealing medication in food and drink can [...]

Managing depression among older people in care homes

Managing depression among older people in care homes, Charles Morris, Amanda Thompsell
Nursing & Residential Care, Vol. 10, Iss. 3, 20 Feb 2008, pp 145 – 148
Abstract: Charles Morris and Amanda Thompsell discuss the management of depression in their concluding article on depression among older people in care homes. Drug-based treatment, psychological therapies and [...]

Recognizing depression in older adults in care homes

Recognizing depression in older adults in care homes, Amanda Thompsell
Nursing & Residential Care, Vol. 10, Iss. 2, 16 Jan 2008, pp 95 – 97
Abstract: In the first of two articles on depression in older adults, Amanda Thompsell discusses the prevalence of depression in care homes, and the importance of recognizing the clinical features and [...]

Schizophrenia – Has Research Informed Us on the Practical Drug Treatment of Schizophrenia?

Has Research Informed Us on the Practical Drug Treatment of Schizophrenia?
Schizophrenia Bulletin Advance Access published on March 11, 2008  34: 403-405
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Abstract: Has the randomized controlled trial (RCT) research over the last 56 years (since antipsychotics were discovered) informed us of the central practical questions the clinician must face on how to medicate [...]

Self Injury – Prison self injury rate accelerates at four times the rise in population

Prison self injury rate accelerates at four times the rise in population, 11th April 2008, Howard League for Penal Reform

Rates of self injury in prison have rocketed by almost 40% in the last five years, accelerating well beyond what would be expected from the ever rising prison population in England and Wales.
Figures show that [...]

Dual Diagnosis – Perceptions of their new role and function

An investigation into the aspirations and experiences of newly appointed dual diagnosis workers,    Authors: MCLAUGHLIN, D. F.; SINES, D.; LONG, A.Journal of Psychiatric & Mental Health Nursing, Volume 15, Number 4, May 2008 , pp. 296-305
Abstract:  This qualitative, exploratory study was designed to explore a sample of eight recently appointed dual diagnosis workers’ (DDWs) perceptions of their new [...]

CBT – Coping Tool Kit for Psychosis

Cognitive Coping Tool Kit for Psychosis: Development of a Group-Based Curriculum
Cognitive and Behavioral Practice, Volume 14, Issue 1, February 2007, Pages 98-106
Abstract:
This article outlines an 8-week curriculum that was created to help outpatients develop cognitive and behavioral skills for coping with delusions and hallucinations as well as to reduce patients’ comorbid subjective levels of distress (e.g., depression, [...]

CBT – Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Across the Stages of Psychosis: Prodromal, First Episode, and Chronic Schizophrenia

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Across the Stages of Psychosis: Prodromal, First Episode, and Chronic Schizophrenia, Online Early Edition, Cognitive and Behavioral Practice 2008
Lucia R. Valmaggia, Paul Tabraham, Eric Morris, Theo K. Bouman
Abstract
Since the early 1990s, cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) has been increasingly used as an adjunctive treatment for psychotic disorders. This paper describes the CBT of [...]

Risky drinking in North West school children and its consequences: A study of fifteen and sixteen year olds

Risky drinking in North West school children and its consequences: A study of fifteen and sixteen year olds Authors: Authors: Sara Hughes, Mark A. Bellis, Karen Hughes, Karen Tocque, Michela Morleo, Matt Hennessey, Linda Smallthwaite –
Abstract: Alcohol consumption has emerged as a key public health priority both in the UK and in Europe as a [...]

Mental Health: Acupuncture evidence update 2008 – Anxiety & Insomnia

  The following relevant studies on this topic have been published since 1 January 2007.
These studies have met our selection criteria. Where there is an appraisal available we have linked to it. If there is no appraisal and you wish to appraise the selected studies here is a link to a list of appraisal tools.
Anxiety/ [...]

EcoMinds – Helping people with mental distress

Ecominds   21st April 2008, MIND, Patient Information
The Ecominds funding scheme
Ecominds is an open grant programme run by Mind as an award partner of the Big Lottery Fund. The programme has £7.5 million to distribute to around 125 new and existing projects around England focusing on mental health and the environment over the next five years.
The [...]

The Inside Story: The impact of depression on daily life

   The Inside Story: The impact of depression on daily life, 21st April 2008, Depression Allliance, England
Abstract:
This report reveals the inside story on depression at work.

People with depression are in need of more help and support from their employers and colleagues according to the results of new research revealed to coincide with Depression Awareness Week [...]

Appraisal Tools from CASP – Now Added to the Res.Guide Tab

 Appraisal Tools now been added to the Res.Guide Tab on this site.
The following tools were developed by the Critical Appraisal Skills Programme (CASP) to help with the process of critically appraising articles of the following types of research:

Systematic Reviews

Randomised Controlled Trials (RCTs)

Qualitative Research

Economic Evaluation Studies

Cohort Studies

Case Control Studies

Diagnostic Test Studies

All of the above are available [...]

Hawton – Deliberate self-harm by under-15-year-olds: characteristics, trends and outcome

  Deliberate self-harm by under-15-year-olds: characteristics, trends and outcome,
Keith Hawton and Louise Harriss, Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry 49 (4) , 441–448

Abstract:
Background: Relatively little information is available about the characteristics and long-term outcome of children and adolescents aged under 15 years who present to general hospitals because of deliberate self-harm (DSH).
Method: Information was collected on 710 [...]

New Cochrane Review – Paliperidone for schizophrenia

  Paliperidone for schizophrenia, Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews 2008 Issue 2, Art. No.: CD006369
Abstract: According to a Cochrane systematic review comparing the effects of oral paliperidone with other treatments for schizophrenia, oral paliperidone is more efficacious than placebo, and has an adverse effect profile similar to risperidone.The authors included data from randomised controlled trials [...]

CBT & Adolescent Eating Disorders – Most Read Article from Child & Adolescent Mental Health

  Evidence Based Research in CBT with Adolescent Eating Disorders, Child and Adolescent Mental Health, Volume 11, Issue 1, Page 9-12, Feb 2006
Abstract: Cognitive behaviour therapy (CBT) is increasingly becoming the treatment of choice for a number of adolescent mental health problems, including depression (Harrington et al., 1998) and obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD), (March, 1995). In [...]

New Reviews from Cochrane April 2008 – Occupational, Depression, CBT take your pick

  New Reviews from Cochrane
·         Anticonvulsants for cocaine dependence  
·         Clobazam as an add-on in the management of refractory epilepsy  
·         Cognitive-behavioural interventions for preventing youth gang involvement for children and young people (7-16) 
·         Dopamine agonist therapy in early Parkinson’s disease  
·         Huperzine A for Alzheimer’s disease   
·         Interventions to improve occupational health in depressed people 
·         Omega-3 fatty [...]

DBT & DSH – A Preliminary Community Study of Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT) with Adolescent Females Demonstrating Persistent, Deliberate Self-Harm (DSH)

 A Preliminary Community Study of Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT) with Adolescent Females Demonstrating Persistent, Deliberate Self-Harm (DSH) , Online Early Article, 2008, Child and Adolescent Mental Health
Abstract:A study of dialectical behaviour therapy (DBT) for 16 older female adolescents with persistent and severe deliberate self-harm was undertaken. Independent assessments were carried out pre- and post-treatment, and [...]

Hawton – Adolescents Who Self Harm: A Comparison of Those Who Go to Hospital and Those Who Do Not

  Adolescents Who Self Harm: A Comparison of Those Who Go to Hospital and Those Who Do Not , Keith Hawton, Karen Rodham, Emma Evans & Louise Harriss, Online Early Article 2008,  Child and Adolescent Mental Health
Abstract:

Background: Deliberate self harm (DSH) by adolescents is a major problem at both hospital and community levels although little [...]

Study Guide – Writing an essay: A practical guide for nurses

  Writing an academic essay: A practical guide for nurses, British Journal of Nursing, Booth, J. ,1996 5(16):995-9
Abstract: Writing academic essays can be a major hurdle and source of anxiety for many students. Fears and misconceptions relating to this kind of writing can be dispelled if the task is approached in a logical and systematic [...]

The Good Childhood Inquiry

The Good Childhood Inquiry, A National Inquiry, from the Children’s Society
Abstract:
The Good Childhood® Inquiry is the UK’s first independent national inquiry into childhood.

The inquiry is seeking to open an inclusive debate on what makes for a good childhood today that will shape future policy and inspire all our relationships with children.The inquiry will:

Listen to the [...]

Mindfulness – Meditation practices for health: state of the research

Meditation practices for health: state of the research, Publication Type: Systematic Review Publication Date: 04 Oct 2007 Source: CRD Health Technology Assessment Database
Abstract: Author’s objectives
“Objectives: To review and synthesize the state of research on a variety of meditation practices, including: The specific meditation practices examined. The research designs employed and the conditions and outcomes examined. [...]