CBT in the British NHS: Vague imposition or imposition of vagueness?

CBT in the British NHS: Vague imposition or imposition of vagueness? European Journal of Psychotherapy & Counselling, Volume 11 Issue 3 September 2009 , pages 323 – 339
David Pilgrim – School of Social Work, University of Central Lancashire, Preston, PR1 2HE, UK
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The multi-faceted controversy created by the ascendance of cognitive behaviour therapy (CBT) in the British [...]

OT – Doing Daily Life: How Occupational Therapy Can Inform Psychiatric Rehabilitation Practice

Doing Daily Life: How Occupational Therapy Can Inform Psychiatric Rehabilitation Practice, Terry Krupa, Ellie Fossey, William A Anthony, Catana Brown, Deborah B Pitts Psychiatric Rehabilitation Journal. Winter 2009. Vol. 32, Iss. 3; pg. 155
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TOPIC: This paper provides an overview of occupational therapy in the context of psychiatric rehabilitation and mental health recovery. PURPOSE: The paper [...]

Mental health outcome measures in the age of recovery-based services

Mental health outcome measures in the age of recovery-based services, British Journal of Nursing (BJN)2009 Aug 13; 18(15): 940-43
Dickens G – Research Nurse and Honorary Lecturer, St Andrew GTs Academic Centre Research Team, Institute of Psychiatry Kings College London, UK
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Patient based outcomes tools such as Health of the Nation Outcome Scales can help users and [...]

Mental health nurses’ diabetes care skills – a training needs analysis

Mental health nurses’ diabetes care skills – a training needs analysis, British Journal of Nursing (BJN), 2009 May 28; 18(10): 626, 628-30
Nash M – Lecturer in Psychiatric Nursing, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Trinity College, Dublin
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This article explores mental health nurses’ diabetes training needs. A survey of inpatient and community mental health nurses was undertaken [...]

CCBT & Beating the Blues – The Acceptability of Computer-Aided Cognitive Behavioural Therapy: A Pragmatic Study

The Acceptability of Computer-Aided Cognitive Behavioural Therapy: A Pragmatic Study , Cognitive Behaviour Therapy, 2009
Kate Cavanagh;  David Alan Shapiro;  Susan Van Den Berg;  Sharon Swain;  Michael Barkham; Judy Proudfoot
Department of Clinical Psychology, Newcastle University, Newcastle, UK
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The clinical and cost-effectiveness of a computer-aided cognitive behavioural therapy (CCBT) programme, Beating the Blues, is indicated by a number [...]

Reflective Practice in Action – Adopting the principles of Cognitive Therapy into their everyday interactions with service users

Work-based learning with staff in an acute care environment: a project review and evaluation, Mental Health Practice 2009 Jul; 12(10): 31-5
Kemp P; Rooks J; Mess L
Principal lecturer, London South Bank University
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A team of nurses working in an acute setting took part in a project to enhance their clinical skills. They were able to reflect more deeply on their [...]

Banishing the Blues – CBT & Computer-based programme

Banishing the blues, Mental Health Practice, 2008 Oct; 12(2): 32-6
Bennett M; Harris N; Learmonth D; Rai S
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Mary Bennett and colleagues explore users’ response to a computer-based CBT programme that can be used to treat mild and moderate depression, and make recommendations on ways to improve user experience and adherence.
Lancashire Care staff can request the full-text of this paper, [...]

New Possibilities in Cognition Enhancement for Schizophrenia

New Possibilities in Cognition Enhancement for Schizophrenia,   Michael F Green. The American Journal of Psychiatry. 2009. Vol. 166, Iss. 7; p. 749 (4 pages)
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Cognitive remediation for schizophrenia and other mental disorders can be divided into two distinctly different approaches. Cognition-enhancing approaches train subjects with laboratory tasks designed to improve specific abilities in various cognitive domains, [...]

CBT – The importance of choice in therapy: From the perspective of a, hopefully flexible, CBT practitioner

The importance of choice in therapy: From the perspective of a, hopefully flexible, CBT practitioner , European Journal of Psychotherapy & Counselling, Volume 11, Issue 3 September 2009 , pages 311 – 322
Windy Dryden – Goldsmiths University of London, London
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The main purpose of this paper is to present a personal account of my therapeutic journey and [...]

Solution-Focused Group Work: Collaborating with Clients Diagnosed with HIV/AIDS

Solution-Focused Group Work: Collaborating with Clients Diagnosed with HIV/AIDS , Journal of Family Psychotherapy, Volume 20, Issue 1 January 2009 , pages 13 – 27
Adam S. Froerer
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This article looks at the current trends and challenges faced by persons diagnosed with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)/acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS). Given the lack of resources available to persons [...]

Beck never lived in Birmingham – CBT

Beck never lived in Birmingham: why cognitive behaviour therapy (CBT) may be a less useful treatment for psychological distress than is often supposed,  Clinical Psychology, Issue 34, 2004
MOLONEY Paul and KELLY Paul
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Begins with a brief discussion of the scope and nature of cognitive behaviour therapy as practiced within the National Health Service, and then critically [...]

NICE – Depression in adults (update)

Depression in adults (update)   NICE, October 2009
Depression: the treatment and management of depression in adults (update)
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This guideline is published alongside ‘Depression in adults with a chronic physical health problem: treatment and management’ NICE clinical guideline 91, which makes recommendations on the identification, treatment and management [...]

NICE – Depression with a chronic physical health problem

Depression with a chronic physical health problem: NICE guideline   NICE, October 2009
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This guideline is published alongside ‘Depression: the treatment and management of depression in adults (update)’ (NICE clinical guideline 90), which makes recommendations on the identification, treatment and management of depression in adults aged [...]

NICE – Promoting mental wellbeing at work

Promoting mental wellbeing at work     NICE,  November 2009
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The guidance is for those who have a direct or indirect role in, and responsibility for, promoting mental wellbeing at work. This includes all employers and their representatives, irrespective of the size of the business or organisation [...]

Developing MAPPA: Multi-Agency Public Protection Arrangements

Developing MAPPA: Multi-Agency Public Protection Arrangements, Criminal Justice Matters,  Vol.51 (1), 2003, 20 – 29
Tim Bryan; William Payne - Public Protection Unit, National Probation Directorate.
 
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The multi-agency public protection arrangements represent a real step forward. The co-operation between the police and probation service has been outstanding in some cases. I have been very impressed by what I [...]

Multi-agency public protection panels for dangerous offenders: One London forensic team’s experience

Multi-agency public protection panels for dangerous offenders: One London forensic team’s experience, Journal of Forensic Psychiatry & Psychology, Vol.16 (2) 2005, 312 – 327
Susan Young;  Gisli H. Gudjonsson; Humphrey Needham-Bennett 
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In this article the authors discuss the contribution of a forensic community team to a multi-agency public protection panel (MAPPP) held in a borough within the [...]

MAPPA – NOMS – NPS – HMP Prisons

Multi-Agency Public Protection Arrangements  Ministry of Justice – National Offender Management Service
NOMS – National Offender Management Service
National Probabtion Service
HMP Prison Service
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Multi-Agency Public Protection Arrangements (MAPPA) support the assessment and management of the most serious sexual and violent offenders.
The aim of MAPPA is to ensure that a risk [...]

Risk and Public Protection: Responding to Involuntary and ‘Taboo’ Risk

Risk and Public Protection: Responding to Involuntary and ‘Taboo’ Risk, Social Policy & Administration, Volume 42, Issue 6, Date: December 2008, Pages: 611-629
Hazel Kemshall, Jason Wood – Community and Criminal Justice Division, De Montfort University, Hawthorn Building, Leicester, LE1 9BH

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Growing media, political and public concern with high-risk offenders in the community has focused policy attention on the concept of [...]

Offender health and social care: a review of the evidence on inter-agency collaboration

Offender health and social care: a review of the evidence on inter-agency collaboration, Health & Social Care in the Community, Volume 17, Issue 6, Date: November 2009, Pages: 573-580
Iestyn Williams – Health Services Management Centre, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK

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The involvement of health and social care agencies in crime reduction partnerships remains key to government strategy despite a growing [...]

MAPPA – In Cumbria

Multi-Agency Public Protection Arrangements Annual Reports 2008 – 2009  Cumbria
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The Cumbria Youth Offending Team is committed to their involvement with the MAPPA Strategic Management Board and has achieved a 100 per cent attendance record at relevant meetings. We continue to manage the risk that some [...]

MAPPA Guidance & Statistics – 2009

MAPPA Guidance – 2009       National Probation Service
National Statistics 2008-09 -  Click the title to access the full-text
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This Guidance is issued by the Secretary of State under Section 325(8) Criminal Justice Act (2003). This Guidance is therefore statutory. All Responsible Authorities and “co-operating bodies”, being public bodies, have [...]

MAPPA – In Lancashire

Multi-Agency Public Protection Arrangements Annual Reports 2008 – 2009  Lancashire
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Keeping Lancashire safe is the top priority of all those who work within criminal justice in the county. Collectively, we are determined to protect people from potentially dangerous offenders who are being supervised in the community. [...]

Investigating barriers to implementation of the NICE Guidelines for Depression: a staff survey with Community Mental Health Teams

Investigating barriers to implementation of the NICE Guidelines for Depression: a staff survey with Community Mental Health Teams, Journal of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing, 2009
L. RHODES, R. GENDERS, R. OWEN, K. O’HANLON, J. S. L. BROWN
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•  The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence produce clinical guidelines that make recommendations for treatment of various [...]

Making a difference in Parkinson’s disease: An audit of patient perspectives

Making a difference in Parkinson’s disease: An audit of patient perspectives,   Sharon Reading , Patricia McGee , British Journal of Neuroscience Nursing, Vol. 5, Iss. 11, 13 Nov 2009, pp 496 – 501
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Parkinson’s disease (PD) affects approximately 120 000 people in the UK with an age range from people in their 30s upwards. The classic signs [...]

Mindfulness Special – Recent Developments in Mindfulness-Based Research

Mindfulness Special, Journal of Cognitive Psychotherapy, 2009, Vol. 23 (3)
 
Recent Developments in Mindfulness-Based Research
New Developments in Research on Mindfulness-Based Treatments: Introduction to the Special Issue
Authors: Lau, Mark A.; Yu, Amanda R.
Development and Preliminary Validation of a Trait Version of the Toronto Mindfulness Scale
Authors: Davis, Karen M.; Lau, Mark A.; Cairns, David R.
Do Mindfulness Meditation [...]

Mental capacity to consent to treatment and admission decisions in older adult psychiatric inpatients

Mental capacity to consent to treatment and admission decisions in older adult psychiatric inpatients , International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, 2009, Volume 24 Issue 12, Pages 1367 - 1375
Kate Maxmin, Claudia Cooper, Laurence Potter, Gill Livingston
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Objectives

There is little information about older adult psychiatric inpatients’ capacity to consent to clinical decisions. In younger adults, lack of capacity is associated with poor insight [...]

OT – OT’s enable well-being

Self-care, productivity, and leisure, or dimensions of occupational experience? Rethinking occupational “categories”     Karen Whalley Hammell. The Canadian Journal of Occupational Therapy,  2009. Vol. 76, Iss. 2; p. 107
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Background. Critics contend that occupational therapy’s theories of occupation are culturally specific, class-bound, and ableist, and that the division of all occupations into three simplistic categories of self-care, productivity, [...]

Critical Appraisal – Interpreting meta-analysis in systematic reviews

Interpreting meta-analysis in systematic reviews, Evidence-Based Medicine 2008;13:67-69
Rafael Perera, Carl Heneghan
Centre for Evidence Based Medicine, University of Oxford: Oxford, UK
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A meta-analysis is a statistical method used to estimate an average, or common effect, over several studies. With therapeutic interventions (whether drug or non-drug) the meta-analysis is usually based on randomised controlled trials. In this reader’s [...]

Prevalence of ADHD symptoms among youth in a secure facility: the consistency and accuracy of self- and informant-report ratings

Prevalence of ADHD symptoms among youth in a secure facility: the consistency and accuracy of self- and informant-report ratings, Journal of Forensic Psychiatry & Psychology, 2009
Susan Young;  Gisli Gudjonsson;  Peter Misch;  Philip Collins;  Phillipa Carter;  Jade Redfern; Emily Goodwin
Institute of Psychiatry, King’s College, London, UK
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The current study aimed to determine the most reliable source [...]

CBT – Happiness – Layard

Reading ‘Happiness’: CBT and the Layard thesis, European Journal of Psychotherapy & Counselling, Volume 10, Issue 3 September 2008 , pages 247 – 260
David Pilgrim – School of Social Work, University of Central Lancashire, Preston, PRI ZHE
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This review essay examines an important recent contribution from an economist Richard Layard to debates about the social and [...]