TalkWell – Great New Guide from Star Wards – Encouraging the art of conversation on Mental Health Wards

TalkWell  (2009) is a conversation training resource for mental health workers Click on the title above to gain direct Full-text access Star Wards It’s a lively and practical way to help your staff to: become better listeners enjoy and feel able to manage conversations about anything from Coronation Street to coping with compulsions have a [...]

WHAT HAS PSYCHOANALYSIS GOT TO DO WITH HAPPINESS?

WHAT HAS PSYCHOANALYSIS GOT TO DO WITH HAPPINESS? RECLAIMING THE POSITIVE IN PSYCHOANALYTIC PSYCHOTHERAPY, British Journal of Psychotherapy, 2009,Volume 25 Issue 4, Pages 435 - 455 Graham Music 1   1 NHS Correspondence to  [gmusic@tavi-port.nhs.uk] Graham music is a Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist working in the NHS and an adult psychotherapist in private practice. He is Associate Clinical Director [...]

Obsesity & Serious Mental Illness – Need for an increase in physical activity sessions

Physical activity levels of persons with mental illness attending psychiatric rehabilitation programs, Schizophrenia Research, Volume 108, Issues 1-3, March 2009, Pages 252-257 Gerald J. Jerome et al… Department of Kinesiology, Towson University, Towson, Maryland, United States Abstract: This study objectively measured physical activity levels in overweight and obese adults with severe mental illness and examined [...]