Bulimia nervosa and non-suicidal self-injury

Emotional states preceding and following acts of non-suicidal self-injury in bulimia nervosa patients, Behaviour Research and Therapy, Volume 47, Issue 1, January 2009, Pages 83-87 Abstract: Bulimia nervosa and non-suicidal self-injury (NSSI) co-occur at high rates, and both have been conceptualized as maladaptive emotion regulation strategies. Treatments focusing on emotion regulation have been designed for [...]

OT – Occupational therapy, professional development, and ethics

Occupational therapy, professional development, and ethics, Scandinavian Journal of Occupational Therapy, Volume 16, Issue 2 May 2009 , pages 88 – 98 Abstract: 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 [...]

Cochrane – Psychosocial Well-being of Children affected by HIV and AIDS

Interventions for improving the psychosocial well-being of children affected by HIV and AIDS. Cochrane, April 2009 Click on the title above to gain direct full-text access Abstract: As a result of HIV-related mortalities more than 13 million children under the age of 15 have lost a parent due to HIV and AIDS. There are also many [...]

Childhood obesity: surveillance and prevention – Evidence Update

Childhood obesity: surveillance and prevention, National Library for Public Health, 2009 Click on the title above for direct access to the evidence     This evidence update covers childhood obesity: surveillance and prevention. It is an update of the evidence from March 2008 to March 2009. The 2008 evidence update can still be viewed in [...]

Healthy Mind, Healthy Body

Healthy mind, healthy body: how liaison psychiatry services can transform quality and productivity in acute settings, April 2009 , NHS Confederation Click on title above for direct full-text access This briefing looks at opportunities to improve quality and efficiency in acute services by focusing on the needs of the significant number of patients who also [...]

Most Read Article – Therapeutic Limits from an Attachment Perspective

Therapeutic Limits from an Attachment Perspective, Clinical Child Psychology and Psychiatry, Vol. 14, No. 2, 215-235 (2009) Abstract: This article applies attachment theory and relevant research to therapeutic limit setting and focuses particularly on child-centred, non-directive play therapy (NDPT) practice. We review the role of limits in therapeutic change and examine whether therapeutic limit setting [...]

What is Critical Appraisal?

What is Critical Appraisal?  2001, www.evidence-based-medicine.co.uk Click on the paper title to gain direct full-text  access Abstract: Critical appraisal is the process of systematically examining research evidence to assess its validity, results and relevance before using it to inform a decision. Critical appraisal is an essential part of evidence-based clinical practice that includes the process [...]

Impact of audit and feedback on antipsychotic prescribing in schizophrenia

Impact of audit and feedback on antipsychotic prescribing in schizophrenia, Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice, Online Early view, 2009 Abstract: To examine the impact of audit and feedback on antipsychotic prescribing for schizophrenia outpatients over 4.5 years. Methods Clinical files in three mental health services caring for outpatients in Auckland, New Zealand were reviewed at [...]

Special Issue: Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD)

Special Issue: Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD), Personality and Mental Health, Volume 3 Issue 2 , May 2009 Is borderline personality disorder really a personality disorder?  Why borderline personality disorder is neither borderline nor a personality disorder The case for retaining borderline personality disorder as a psychiatric diagnosis Significance of symptoms vs. traits in the diagnostic [...]

Early Psychosis – Two types of Paranoia – ‘poor me’ and ‘bad me’

Understanding attributional biases, emotions and self-esteem in poor me paranoia: Findings from an early psychosis sample, British Journal of Clinical Psychology, Volume 48, Number 2, June 2009 , pp. 141-162(22) Abstract: Trower and Chadwick’s (1995) theory of two types of paranoia (`poor me’ and `bad me’) provides a framework for understanding the seemingly contradictory evidence on [...]

Prisoners with personality disorder: Substance or substantive?

Assessing the viability of treatment rights for prisoners with personality disorder: Substance or substantive? Personality and Mental Health, Online early view 2009 Abstract: Personality disorder (PD) has long been criticized as a diagnosis, not least for the issue of its supposed untreatability. This has precluded many offenders with PD from receiving treatment for their disorder [...]

Nuisance or disturbance on NHS premises and a power for fully trained NHS to remove a person reasonably suspected of committing this offence

A Department of Health consultation paper: draft guidance on provisions to deal with nuisance or disturbance behaviour on NHS premises in England, 12th May 2009, Department of Health Click on the report title for direct full-text access Abstract: The Criminal Justice and Immigration Act 2008 creates a criminal offence of causing a nuisance or disturbance [...]

Cognitive-Behavioural Bibliotherapy for Hypochondriasis: A Pilot Study

Cognitive-Behavioural Bibliotherapy for Hypochondriasis: A Pilot Study, Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy, Online early view, 2009 Abstract: The present study aims to determine whether cognitive-behavioural minimal contact bibliotherapy is acceptable to participants suffering from DSM-IV-TR hypochondriasis, and whether this intervention is able to reduce hypochondriacal complaints, as well as comorbid depressive complaints and trait anxiety. Method: [...]

Tackling health inequalities: 10 years on

Tackling health inequalities: 10 years on  Department of Health, May 2009 Click on the report title to gain direct full-text access Abstract: This report reviews developments in health inequalities over the last 10 years across government. It covers developments on the wider social determinants of health, and the role of the NHS. It also reviews [...]

Self-Injury – Nursing staff knowledge and attitudes in an Inpatient Setting

Nursing Staff Knowledge and Attitudes Towards Deliberate Self-Harm in Adults and Adolescents in an Inpatient Setting, Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy , Online early view, 2009 Malcolm Wheatleya1 c1 and Hannah Austin-Paynea2 a1 St. Andrew’s Healthcare, Northampton, UK a2 Coventry University, UK Abstract: This paper investigates the relationship between care staff perceptions’ of self-harm behaviours presented by [...]

Reasons for substance use in dual diagnosis bipolar disorder and substance use disorders: A qualitative study

Reasons for substance use in dual diagnosis bipolar disorder and substance use disorders: A qualitative study, Journal of Affective Disorders, Volume 113, Issues 1-2, February 2009, Pages 118-126 aDivision of Psychiatry, University of Liverpool, United Kingdom bMersey Care NHS Trust, United Kingdom cSchool of Psychology, University of Manchester, United Kingdom dDivision of Clinical Psychology, University [...]

Alzheimers’s – Personal Life History Booklet – Wonderful resource prepared by an OT

The Personal Life History Booklet is a wonderful resource, prepared by an Occupational Therapy Student, for Alzheimer’s Australia. “This booklet has been designed to collect the unique social and life history of an individual with dementia. This life history will help individualise the care of the person with dementia and maintain their identity. It will [...]

Meta-analysis of the effectiveness of psychological and pharmacological treatments for binge eating disorder

Meta-analysis of the effectiveness of psychological and pharmacological treatments for binge eating disorder, International Journal of Eating Disorders, Online early view, 2009 Abstract: Objective: The aim of this study was to compute and compare mean effects of various treatments for binge eating disorder. Method: A total of 38 studies with 1973 participants fulfilled the defined [...]

‘It’s a Goal!’ – Basing a Community Psychiatric Nursing Service in a Local Football Stadium

‘It’s a Goal!’; Basing a CPN in a Football Stadium – The half time score, Mental Health Nurse, Vol.26 (3) pg 10-13 It’s a Goal!: basing a community psychiatric nursing service in a local football stadium 2004, JRSH, Vol.124 (5) Its a goal project site Click on both paper titles to gain direct full-text access Abstract:  ‘It’s a [...]

Adult Meduim Secure Units – Environmental Design Principles

Environmental design principles for adult medium secure units, Department of Health, April 2009 Click on the report title to gain direct full-text access Abstract: This draft document launches a consultation on revisions to previously published medium secure environmental guidance (Design Guide 1993). It is anticipated the document will annex the Best Practice Guidance and Specification [...]

Mental Health Act 1983 – Patients Records

Independent mental health advocates: supplementary guidance on access to patient records under section 130B of the Mental Health Act 1983, Department of Health, May 2009 Click on the Report title to gain direct full-text access Abstract: The Department of Health has been asked for advice on whether section 130B of the Mental Health Act 1983 [...]

Memory Clinics – Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index

Diagnostic utility of the Pittsburgh sleep Quality Index in memory clinics, International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, Online early view, 2009 P. Hancock 1, A. J. Larner 2 1Memory Clinic, 5 Borough Partnership NHS Trust, Brooker Centre, Halton Hospital, Runcorn, UK 2Cognitive Function Clinic, Walton Centre for Neurology and Neurosurgery, Liverpool, UK email: A. J. Larner [...]

Development of quality indicators for memory clinics

Development of quality indicators for memory clinics, International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, Volume 23 Issue 2, 2008, Pages 119 - 128 Abstract: Objective To develop and validate a set of relevant, feasible, and reliable quality indicators (QIs) for the Memory Clinics (MCs). Background MCs are important care providers for people with dementia and their caregivers. A set of valid QIs [...]

Cannabis Use & Adolescents – Greater risk of developing psychotic-like experiences (PLEs) and psychosis

The association between early cannabis use and psychotic-like experiences in a community adolescent sample, Schizophrenia Research, Online early view, 2009 Abstract: Cannabis use has been associated with greater risk of developing psychotic-like experiences (PLEs) and psychosis. This paper aims to determine if different levels of cannabis (lifetime, regular, recent) exposure are associated with PLEs and [...]

Schizophrenia – What we know – Science into 22 Facts

What We Know: Findings That Every Theory of Schizophrenia Should Explain, Schizophrenia Bulletin , May, 2009 35(3):493-508 Abstract: The article summarizes the process used to distill schizophrenia science into 22 facts. These facts consist of 6 basic facts, 3 etiological facts, 6 pharmacological and treatment facts, 5 pathology facts, and 2 behavioral facts that were [...]

Anorexia nervosa and pregnancy – Case Report & Treatment Guidelines

Anorexia nervosa and pregnancy: Having a baby when you are dying to be thin - Case report and proposed treatment guidelines, International Journal of Eating Disorders, Volume 42 Issue 4, 2009, Pages 382 - 384 Abstract: Pregnant women with anorexia nervosa (AN) are at risk for multiple complications to both the woman and fetus. This report examines when to obtain a [...]

Compassion-focused therapy – Underpins feelings of reassurance, safeness and well-being

Introducing compassion-focused therapy, Advances in Psychiatric Treatment (2009) 15: 199-208 Paul Gilbert is Professor of Clinical Psychology at the University of Derby and consultant psychologist at Derbyshire Mental Health Services NHS Trust. He is a Fellow of the British Psychological Society and has been actively researching shame-related processes in mood disorders and compassion as a [...]

Compassionate mind training with (CMT) with psychotic voice hearers – Case studies

Compassionate mind training with people who hear malevolent voices: a case series report, Clinical psychology and psychotherapy, 2008 Mar;15(2):113-38 Mayhew SL, Gilbert P Department of Clinical Psychology, Derbyshire Mental Health Services NHS Trust Abstract: This paper presents a series of case studies to explore the understanding, acceptance and value of compassionate mind training (CMT) with [...]

Social Inclusion – Vision & Progress: Social Inclusion & Mental Health

Vision and progress: Social inclusion and mental health, March 2009, National Social Inclusion Programme Click on the title above to gain direct full-text access to the report Abstract: The National Social Inclusion Programme (NSIP) launched its ‘Vision and Progress’ report on 12th March, 2009. The report sets out the achievements of NSIP since the 2004 [...]

Dual Diagnosis – Repertory Grid Technique

The use of the repertory grid technique to examine staff beliefs about clients with dual diagnosis.     Clinical Psychology & Psychotherapy, 2009, Volume 16 Issue 2, Pages 148 - 158 Central Crisis Resolution and Home Treatment Team, Manchester Royal Infirmary, Manchester, UK Manchester Assertive Outreach Team, Manchester, UK Division of Clinical Psychology, School of Psychological Sciences, University of Manchester, Manchester, [...]