Eating Disorders – What do women with bulimic eating disorders think and know about bulimia nervosa and its treatment?

Mental health literacy and eating disorders: What do women with bulimic eating disorders think and know about bulimia nervosa and its treatment?  Journal of Mental Health, Volume 17, Issue 6 December 2008 , pages 565 – 575
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Background and Aims: Attitudes and beliefs concerning the eating disorder bulimia nervosa (BN) were examined in a community sample [...]

DSM axis II: personality disorders or adaptation disorders?.

DSM axis II: personality disorders or adaptation disorders?
Current Opinion in Psychiatry. 22(1):111-117,January 2009
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Purpose of review: After the initial enthusiasm, the study of personality disorder seems to be at a crossroad, without clear direction. This is mainly due to overlapping categorical diagnostic criteria of personality disorders. Study samples based on these criteria are inadequate and [...]

PTSD – Writing an RCT

A randomised controlled trial of the effectiveness of writing as a self-help intervention for traumatic injury patients at risk of developing post-traumatic stress disorder,  Behaviour Research and Therapy
Volume 47, Issue 1, January 2009, Pages 6-12
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The study investigated the effects of writing and self-help information on severity of psychological symptoms in traumatic injury patients at [...]

Cochrane – Interventions for learning disabled sex offenders

Interventions for learning disabled sex offenders, Cochrane, Systematic Review, 23rd January 2008
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The management of sex offenders is a major public concern. Behavioural and pharmacological interventions have been used for many years and more recently cognitive behavioural based interventions have become popular around the world. Programmes designed for the general [...]

Pharmacological management of inappropriate sexual behaviours: a review of its evidence, rationale and scope in relation to men with intellectual disabilities

Pharmacological management of inappropriate sexual behaviours: a review of its evidence, rationale and scope in relation to men with intellectual disabilities, Journal of Intellectual Disability Research, 52, 12, 1078-1090 , 10th December 2008
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Aim/research question (stated/inferred)
To review evidence, rationale and scope of pharmacological management of ISBs
Methods
Literature search conducted using electronic [...]

Learning Disabilities & Talking Mats

The effectiveness of Talking Mats® with people with intellectual disability 10th December 2008, British Journal of Learning Disabilities 36, 4, 232  – 24
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To evaluate the effectiveness of T.M. as a communication resource to enable people with intellectual disability to express their views on life planning.

Self Harm: Recovery, Advice & Support

Self Harm: Recovery, Advice and Support, UK , National Children’s Bureau: Young People and Self-harm
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Information on a wide range of activities and initiatives relating to young people and self-harm.
Information about Self Harm
Real life accounts, Help, Understanding and Advice how to Cope

Meditation & Depression – MBCT

Meditation and depression, NHS , Choices
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“Buddhist meditation techniques can be just as effective at combating depression as medication,” the Daily Mail reported. It said a study has found that “mindfulness-based cognitive therapy (MBCT)” helps people to focus on the present rather than looking to past [...]

Dementia and Sleep

Sleep gives brain disease warning BBC, Thursday 25th December 2008
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Physically “acting out” dreams when asleep could be an early warning sign of dementia or Parkinson’s disease.
Canadian researchers studied 93 people with “REM sleep behaviour disorder”, which can involve punching or kicking out while [...]

Christmas 2008 – Great Britons

Christmas 2008 – Great Britons, BMJ, 20 December 2008 Vol 337, No 7684
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Christmas 2008: Great Britons: Reappraising Florence Nightingale
Christmas 2008: Great Britons: Auntibiotics: the BBC, penicillin, and the second world war
Christmas 2008: Great Britons: Churchill’s flu poem

Spending on adult mental health services in England

Spending on adult mental health services in England, 9th December 2008, Sainsbury Centre for Mental Health
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Happiness spreads to friends

  Happiness spreads to friends, 15th December 2008, Department of Health
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“Happiness is ‘infectious’ and spreads through friends and family,” reports The Daily Telegraph today. The newspaper suggests that a study of 5,000 people has found happiness can be transferred through social networks, and that happiness appears to [...]

Drug Consumption Rooms

The Report of the Independent Working Group on Drug Consumption Rooms, Joseph Rowntree, December 2008
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A detailed examination of whether Drug Consumption Rooms (DCRs) should be introduced in the UK.
The Government has previously rejected calls for the introduction [...]

Getting it Right! – Best Practice & Learning Disabilities

Getting it right  December 2008, Mencap
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Getting it right is a project run by a group of health professionals to improve healthcare for people with a learning disability. 
People with a learning disability experience poorer health and poorer healthcare than the general population.
Mencap has worked [...]

Forensic – A review of service user involvement in prison mental health research

A review of service user involvement in prison mental health research, 16th December 2008, Sainsbury Centre for Mental Health
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Service user involvement (SUI) in health care research is now firmly established in the NHS but few attempts have been made to find out about prisoners’ experiences of mental health [...]

Occupational Therapy – Skills & Vocational Rehabilitation

Vocational Rehabilitation: what is it, who can deliver it and who pays? December 2008, Sainsbury Centre for Mental Health and the College of Occupational Therapists
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Government needs to take concerted action to build a workforce that can support its ambitious plans to help people with mental health problems to [...]

Mental Capacity Act 2005 Resources – Not to be missed

Mental Capacity Act 2005 Resources,   SCIE, December 2008
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The aim of this new section is to introduce a range of guidance materials and links to further support implementation of the Mental Capacity Act (MCA). The section is in the early stages of development, but will eventually provide [...]

State of Healthcare 2008

State of Healthcare 2008, December 2008 , Healthcare Commission
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On 10 December, we published our fifth and final report to Parliament on the state of healthcare in England and Wales. We looked at the progress made in healthcare since 2004 and the challenges ahead. We also focused [...]

Cognitive Behaviour Therapy for Eating Disorders

Cognitive Behaviour Therapy for Eating Disorders, Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy (2008), 36 : 713-722
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The eating disorders provide one of the strongest indications for cognitive behaviour therapy (CBT). This bold claim arises from two sources: first, the fact that eating disorders are essentially cognitive disorders and second, the demonstrated effectiveness of CBT in the treatment of [...]

Increasing Access to CBT: Stepped Care and CBT Self-Help Models in Practice

Increasing Access to CBT: Stepped Care and CBT Self-Help Models in Practice, Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy , Volume 36, Special Issue 06, November 2008, pp 675-683
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The delivery of cognitive behaviour therapy (CBT) in the UK has moved through two phases. In the first phase specialist practitioners delivered bespoke CBT to individuals often experiencing complex [...]

ADHD & Borderline Personality Disorder

Attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder as a potentially aggravating factor in borderline personality disorder, The British Journal of Psychiatry (2008) 192: 118-123.
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Clinical experience suggests that people with borderline personality disorder often meet criteria for attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). However, empirical data are sparse.
To establish the prevalence of childhood and adult ADHD in a group of women [...]

Metacognitive Therapy: Cognition Applied To Regulating Cognition

Metacognitive Therapy: Cognition Applied To Regulating Cognition, Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy , Volume 36, Special Issue 06, November 2008, pp 651-658
Adrian Wells
University of Manchester, UK
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The theory and principles of Metacognitive therapy (MCT) are described and data supporting its effects are summarized. MCT does not advocate challenging of negative automatic thoughts or traditional schemas. It [...]

What are the Mental Capacity Act Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards?

What are the Mental Capacity Act Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards? Department of Health, 15th December 2008
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This leaflet provides a brief general introduction to the MCA DOLS and has been specifically designed for care homes and hospitals to help staff understand what the MCA DOLS will mean for them and [...]

The Therapeutic Relationship in Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy

The Therapeutic Relationship in Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy,  Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy (2008), 36:769-777
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Cognitive behavioral therapy has often been criticized for ignoring the role of the therapeutic relationship. In this article, I outline several dimensions for case formulation and intervention that suggest that the cognitive-behavioral approach can be a powerful theoretical model for understanding the causes of [...]

Trauma Focused Cognitive-Behavioural Therapy

Early trauma-focused cognitive-behavioural therapy to prevent chronic post-traumatic stress disorder and related symptoms: a systematic review and meta-analysis,  BMC Psychiatry. 2008 Sep 19;8:81
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BACKGROUND: Early trauma-focused cognitive-behavioural therapy (TFCBT) holds promise as a preventive intervention for people at risk of developing chronic post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). The aim [...]

Occupational therapy, professional development, and ethics

Occupational therapy, professional development, and ethics, Scandinavian Journal of Occupational Therapy, Online early article
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The aim of this article is to reflect on and contribute to developing occupational therapy as a profession. The author proposes an ethical interpretation of health and helping professions in general and occupational therapy in particular. According to this ethical interpretation, the [...]

New Patient Information Leaflets from Royal College of Psychiatrists

New Patient Information Leaflets from the Royal College of Psychiatrists , 2008
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New: Community Mental Health Teams

New: Film: When a parent has a mental illness
New: Leaflet on Problem Gambling
New: Minds, Myths and Me: fact pack for young carers
New:  Information for parents and young people in British Sign  Language
New:  Anxiety, panic [...]

Adult ADHD – Recent developments in the psychosocial treatment

Recent developments in the psychosocial treatment of adult ADHD , Expert Review of Neurotherapeutics, Volume 8, Number 10, October 2008 , pp. 1537-1548(12)
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Adult attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is an increasingly recognized Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM)-IV psychiatric disorder associated with significant functional impairment in multiple domains. Although stimulant and other pharmacotherapy regimens have the [...]

Post-traumatic Stress Disorder

Early predictors of chronic post-traumatic stress disorder in assault survivor  Psychological Medicine (2007), 37 : 1457-1467
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Background Some studies suggest that early psychological treatment is effective in preventing chronic post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), but it is as yet unclear how best to identify [...]

Psychosis – Cause & Cognitive Therapy

What Do People with Psychosis Think Caused their Psychosis? A Q Methodology Study, Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy, Early view article 2008
Robert Dudleya1 c1, Jonna Siitarinena2, Ian Jamesa2 and Guy Dodgsona2

a1 Newcastle University and Northumberland Tyne and Wear Mental Health NHS Trust, UK a2 Northumberland Tyne and Wear Mental Health NHS Trust, UK
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A key component of cognitive [...]