Children & Adolescents – Bipolar

Comparison of manic and depressive symptoms between children and adolescents with bipolar spectrum disorders, Bipolar Disorders, Volume 11 Issue 1, Pages 52 - 62, 9 Jan 2009
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To compare the most severe lifetime (current or past) mood symptoms, duration of illness, and rates of lifetime comorbid disorders among youth with bipolar spectrum disorders [BP (bipolar-I, bipolar-II and bipolar–not otherwise specified)].
Methods: A total of [...]

Nursing children and adolescents with bipolar disorder

Nursing children and adolescents with bipolar disorder: assessment, diagnosis, treatment, and management,  Journal of Child and Adolescent Psychiatr ic Nursing,  2009 Feb 22(1):33-9
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Cheshire & Wirral Foundation NHS Trust, Cheshire, UK. tim.mcdougall@cwp.nhs.uk
TOPIC: The role of the mental health nurse in the assessment, diagnosis, treatment, and management of children and adolescents with bipolar disorder in community and [...]

The relationship between bipolar disorder and cluster B personality disorders

Age at onset of bipolar disorder and risk for comorbid borderline personality disorder, Bipolar Disorders, Volume 11 Issue 2, Pages 205 - 208,  25 Feb 2009
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The relationship between bipolar disorder and cluster B personality disorders remains phenomenologically complex and controversial. We sought to examine the relationship between early age at onset of bipolar disorder and development of comorbid borderline personality disorder.
Methods: A [...]

Psychotherapy for depression in adults: A meta-analysis

Psychotherapy for depression in adults: A meta-analysis of comparative outcome studies, Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, Dec 2008, Vol 76, 6 , page 909-922
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Although the subject has been debated and examined for more than 3 decades, it is still not clear whether all psychotherapies are equally efficacious. The authors conducted 7 meta-analyses (with a [...]

Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Multiple-Session Early Interventions Following Traumatic Events

Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Multiple-Session Early Interventions Following Traumatic Events, American Journal of  Psychiatry 2009; 166:293-301
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The authors sought to determine the efficacy of multiple-session psychological interventions to prevent and treat traumatic stress symptoms beginning within 3 months of a traumatic event. METHOD: Nine computerized databases were searched, and manual searches were conducted of reference lists [...]

Diet, Depression, ADHD & Mental Health of Children

Diet and Mental Health in Children, Child and Adolescent Mental Health, Online early view, 2009
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The role played by diet in mental health is of increasing interest to patients, parents, health professionals and public policy makers. This review examines the literature assessing the role of diet in childhood cognitive development, school performance and behaviour. The effects [...]

The side effects of evidence-based training – Staff well-being

The side effects of evidence-based training, Journal of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing, Online early view, 2009
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The mental health inpatient workforce has been targeted for continuing training to promote improved practice and enhance morale. The effects of intensive training and innovations in clinical practice on staff well-being are poorly understood. The aim of this paper [...]

The development of a specialist hostel for the community management of personality disordered offenders, Criminal Behaviour and Mental Health, Volume 19 Issue 1, Pages 43 - 53, 26 Jan 2009
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Since the late 1990s, in England and in Wales, there has been increasing interest in the particular challenges of managing offenders with personality disorder (PD). In 1999, a specialist hostel, managed by [...]

Obesity: The Role of Child Mental Health Services

Obesity: The Role of Child Mental Health Services, Child and Adolescent Mental Health, Online Early view, 2009
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Increasing levels of child obesity are placing pressure on all children’s services, including CAMHS. The need for input by mental health professionals is justified by the increased risk of depression, low self-esteem, binge eating, and impaired quality of life [...]

Adolescent Alcohol Use, Suicidal Ideation, and Suicide Attempts

Adolescent Alcohol Use, Suicidal Ideation, and Suicide Attempts , Journal of Adolescent Health
Volume 44, Issue 4, April 2009, Pages 335-341
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To examine the association between self-reported alcohol use and suicide attempts among adolescents who did and did not report suicidal ideation during the past year.
Methods
Screening data from 31,953 students attending schools in the United States [...]

Mindfulness based weight loss intervention – RCT

Exploratory randomised controlled trial of a mindfulness-based weight loss intervention for women,   Appetite, Volume 52, Issue 2 April 2009, Pages 396-404
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To explore the efficacy of a mindfulness-based weight loss intervention for women. Sixty-two women (ages 19–64; BMI 22.5–52.1) who were attempting to lose weight were randomised to an intervention or control condition. The former [...]

Self-Harm & Solution-focused skills for nurses

Use of a think-aloud procedure to explore the relationship between clinical reasoning and solution-focused training in self-harm for emergency nurses, Journal of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing, Volume 16 Issue 2, Pages 121 - 128, 6 Feb 2009
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Self-harm is a risk factor for further episodes of self-harm and suicide. The most common service used by self-injurers is the emergency department. However, [...]

Person-centred care of people with severe Alzheimer’s disease

Person-centred care of people with severe Alzheimer’s disease: current status and ways forward , The Lancet Neurology, Volume 7, Issue 4 ,  April 2008 Pgs. 362-367
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When caring for people with severe Alzheimer’s disease (AD), the concept of the person being central is increasingly advocated in clinical practice and academia as an approach to deliver [...]

The Matrix Model of dual diagnosis service delivery

The Matrix Model of dual diagnosis service delivery, Journal of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing, Volume 16 Issue 3, Pages 305 - 310, 6 Mar 2009
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The author Brendan Georgeson is Treatment Coordinator at Walsingham House, a tier four rehab on Whitson Street in Bristol and wishes to be identified as the originator of the Matrix Model when it is used in [...]

Locked doors in acute inpatient psychiatry: a literature review

Locked doors in acute inpatient psychiatry: a literature review , Journal of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing, Volume 16 Issue 3, Pages 293 - 299, Mar 2009
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Many acute inpatient psychiatric wards in the UK are permanently locked, although this is contrary to the current Mental Health Act Code of Practice. To conduct a literature review of empirical articles concerning locked doors [...]

Decreasing depression, anxiety, stress and increasing comfort in psychiatric inpatients with depressive disorders

The Effects of Guided Imagery on Comfort, Depression, Anxiety, and Stress of Psychiatric Inpatients with Depressive Disorders, Archives of Psychiatric Nursing, On-line early article, 2009
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This article describes the efficacy of a guided imagery intervention for decreasing depression, anxiety, and stress and increasing comfort in psychiatric inpatients with depressive disorders. A quasi-experimental design sampled 60 short-term [...]

Caring for Aged Dementia Care Resident Study (CADRES) – Cluster Randomised Trial

Caring for Aged Dementia Care Resident Study (CADRES) of person-centred care, dementia-care mapping, and usual care in dementia: a cluster-randomised trial, The Lancet Neurology, Volume 8, Issue 4, April 2009, Pages 317-325

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Evidence for improved outcomes for people with dementia through provision of person-centred care and dementia-care mapping is largely observational. We aimed to do a [...]

Grief in Patients with Schizophrenia

Loss and Grief in Patients With Schizophrenia: On Living in Another World, Archives of Psychiatric Nursing, Online early article, 2009
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Schizophrenia enormously impacts the lives of the patients who have this psychiatric disorder. This study addresses the lived experience of grief in schizophrenia.
Method
A qualitative study based on the grounded theory was designed. Ten patients were interviewed [...]

Clinical Recovery in First-Episode Psychosis – Free full-text access

Clinical Recovery in First-Episode Psychosis , Schizophrenia Bulletin 2009 35 2:362-369
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Generally agreed outcome criteria in psychosis are required to evaluate the effectiveness of new treatment strategies. The aim of this study is to explore clinical recovery in first-episode patients, defined by meeting criteria for both [...]

Osteoporosis in anorexia nervosa – Systematic Review

Treatment of osteopenia and osteoporosis in anorexia nervosa: A systematic review of the literature , International Journal of Eating Disorders, 2009, Volume 42 Issue 3, Pages 195 - 201Abstract:

To systematically review the evidence supporting treatment of osteopenia and osteoporosis in patients with anorexia nervosa (AN).

Data sources:

We identified controlled clinical studies of interventions for low bone mass in AN via searches [...]

Transdiagnostic Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy for Patients With Eating Disorders

Transdiagnostic Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy for Patients With Eating Disorders: A Two-Site Trial With 60-Week Follow-Up,  American Journal of Psychiatry 2009 166: 311-319.
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The aim of this study was to compare two cognitive-behavioral treatments for outpatients with eating disorders, one focusing solely on eating disorder features and the other a more complex treatment that also addresses mood intolerance, clinical [...]

Person-centred care and care mapping in dementia

Person-centred care and care mapping in dementia, The Lancet Neurology, Volume 8, Issue 4, April 2009, p. 302-303
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Previous work has shown that person-centred care interventions can reduce the use of antipsychotic drugs in people with dementia, but the current study also shows a significant improvement in agitation. Dementia-care mapping is widely used to develop practice [...]

CBT for Violent Men with Antisocial Personality Disorder – RCT

Cognitive behaviour therapy for violent men with antisocial personality disorder in the community: an exploratory randomized controlled trial,  Psychological Medicine 2009, April,  39:569-577
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Background Little information exists on treatment effectiveness in antisocial personality disorder (ASPD). We investigated the feasibility and effectiveness of carrying out a randomized controlled trial of cognitive behaviour therapy (CBT) in men with [...]

ADHD in Adults – Diagnosis

Personality traits among ADHD adults: implications of late-onset and subthreshold diagnoses, Psychological Medicine (2009), 39:685-693
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Background Diagnosing attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) in adults is difficult when diagnosticians cannot establish onset prior to the DSM-IV criterion of age 7 or if the number of symptoms does not achieve the DSM threshold for diagnosis. Previous work has [...]

Anger & Antisocial Personality Disorder

Effects of induced anger in patients with antisocial personality disorder, Psychological Medicine April, 2009, 39:557-568
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Background Anger is the main deregulated emotion in patients with antisocial personality disorder (ASPD). The aim of this study was to examine emotional, cognitive and physiological correlates of anger and compare these between ASPD patients with varying degree of psychopathy (PP) [...]

Perceptual Control Theory as an integrative framework and Method of Levels as a cognitive therapy: what are the pros and cons

Perceptual Control Theory as an integrative framework and Method of Levels as a cognitive therapy: what are the pros and cons? The Cognitive Behaviour Therapist, Early view, 2009
Warren Mansell – School of Psychological Sciences, University of Manchester, UK
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This article considers the pros and cons of using Method of Levels (MOL), a therapy based on Perceptual [...]

Challenging Behaviour Unit – User empowerment

User empowerment: A user-led survey of user-staff ward meetings in a challenging behaviour unit, Journal of Psychiatric Intensive Care 2008, December, 4 65-68
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Evaluation of users’ perspectives on ward meetings on a low secure challenging behaviour unit with high levels of morbidity as a means towards increasing their sense of empowerment.
Method: Semi-structured questionnaire designed and administered [...]

Personality Disorder – Under-Identification – Implications for CBT therapists

Under-identification of personality disorder among in-patient mental health service users: implications for CBT therapists, The Cognitive Behaviour Therapist (2008), 1:55-66
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The identification of personality disorder among mental health service users is problematic but important because it is associated with high levels of comorbidity and possibly ineffective service delivery. This study assessed the prevalence of personality disorder [...]

Dynamic hierarchies – Practice article – Exposure therapy

Dynamic hierarchies: a control system paradigm for exposure therapy,  The Cognitive Behaviour Therapist 2009, 2:51-62
Alec Brady and David Raines – Department of Psychology, University of Chester, Chester, UK, Whittington CBT, 25 Hunshelf Park, Stocksbridge, Sheffield S36 2BT, S. Yorkshire, UK.
 Abstract:
Exposure therapy is a widely used and well-evidenced treatment for a variety of avoidance behaviours. This [...]

Anger Management Group Programme – RCT

A randomized controlled trial to assess an anger management group programme, The Cognitive Behaviour Therapist 2009, 2:20-31
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We describe the results of a randomized controlled trial to assess effectiveness of an anger management group programme, employing a cognitive behavioural framework that was run by the Psychology Service. The treatment group was compared with a control group [...]