NHS foundation trusts: Review of twelve months to 31 March 2010

NHS foundation trusts: Review of twelve months to 31 March 2010  , 22nd June 2010, Monitor Click on the title to access the full text of this document Abstract: This report covers the following areas for the 129 NHS foundation trusts authorised at 31 March 2010: highlights of the quarter; where Monitor has formally intervened [...]

Cycling and health: What’s the evidence

Cycling and health: What’s the evidence, June 2010 Click on the report title to obtain the full-text Abstract: Cycling England has produced a report which aims to provide a briefing on the links between cycling and health. It sets out to provide a key resource for those interested in understanding and promoting the health benefits [...]

Defeat and entrapment in schizophrenia: The relationship with suicidal ideation and positive psychotic symptoms

Defeat and entrapment in schizophrenia: The relationship with suicidal ideation and positive psychotic symptoms, Psychiatry Research, Volume 178, Issue 2, 30 July 2010, Pages 244-248  Peter James Taylor, Patricia A. Gooding, Alex M. Wood, Judith Johnson, Daniel Pratt, Nicholas Tarrier School of Psychological Sciences, 2nd floor, Zochonis building, University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester, M13 [...]

Learning Disabilities – Health Needs Annual Evidence Update 2010

Health Needs Annual Evidence Update 2010  NHS Evidence,  29th June 2010 Click on the title above to access the Health Needs update The healthcare needs of people with learning disabilities are well documented in the literature (van Schrojenstein Lantman-de Valk & Noonan Walsh 2008). Health needs might be related to disabilities e.g. epilepsy, sensory deficits; [...]

Depression and obesity: A meta-analysis of community-based studies

Depression and obesity: A meta-analysis of community-based studies, Psychiatry Research, Volume 178, Issue 2, 30 July 2010, Pages 230-235Leonore de Wit, Floriana Luppino, Annemieke van Straten, Brenda Penninx, Frans Zitman, Pim Cuijpers Abstract: To examine the nature of the association between depression and obesity and to determine possible underlying (demographic) factors, we conducted a meta-analysis [...]

Bridging the gap between best evidence and best practice in mental health

Bridging the gap between best evidence and best practice in mental health, Clinical Psychology Review Volume 30, Issue 1, February 2010, Pages 127-142 Elizabeth A. Newnham, Andrew C. Page Abstract: Clinical psychology is in a unique position to move beyond a simplistic agenda of outcome assessment to translating that information into a sustainable model of [...]

OT – Prescribing recovery as the new mantra for mental health: Does one prescription serve all?

Prescribing recovery as the new mantra for mental health: Does one prescription serve all?  The Canadian Journal of Occupational Therapy. Apr 2010. Vol. 77, Iss. 2; pg. 82, 8 pgs Shalini Lal Abstract: Background. “Recovery” is the new mantra for reforming the mental health system and occupational therapists have embraced the change. Purpose. To critically [...]

Psychological treatment of panic disorder with or without agoraphobia: A meta-analysis

Psychological treatment of panic disorder with or without agoraphobia: A meta-analysis, Clinical Psychology Review, Volume 30, Issue 1, February 2010, Pages 37-50 Julio Sánchez-Meca Abstract: Although the efficacy of psychological treatment for panic disorder (PD) with or without agoraphobia has been the subject of a great deal of research, the specific contribution of techniques such [...]

OT – A critical reflection on occupational therapy within one Assertive Community Treatment team

A critical reflection on occupational therapy within one Assertive Community Treatment team, The Canadian Journal of Occupational Therapy, Apr 2010. Vol. 77, Iss. 2; p. 70 (10 pages)  Mary Y Egan, Lucy-Ann Kubina, Rosemarie I Lidstone, Gregory H Macdougall, Anne E Raudoy Abstract: Background. The generic process of occupational therapy is often described but is [...]

The impact of dementia on self and identity: A systematic review

The impact of dementia on self and identity: A systematic review, Clinical Psychology Review, Volume 30, Issue 1, February 2010, Pages 113-126 Lisa S. Caddell, Linda Clare School of Psychology, Bangor University, United Kingdom Abstract: There is much debate in the literature as to the extent to which self and identity persist in people with [...]

Diabetes & Mental Health – Systematic review & meta analysis

Identifying Psychosocial Interventions That Improve Both Physical and Mental Health in Patients With Diabetes: A systematic review and meta-analysis, Diabetes Care. Apr 2010. Vol. 33, Iss. 4; p. 926 (5 pages) Elaine Harkness,  Wendy Macdonald,  Jose Valderas,  Peter Coventry,  Linda Gask,  Peter Bower National Institute for Health Research School for Primary Care Research, The University [...]

NHS & Cuts – Cutting the costs without cancelling the services: how to save £12bn in a year

Cutting the costs without cancelling the services: how to save £12bn in a year  Click on the title above to access this report In this NHS savings review, 2020health unveil their proposals for cutting costs

Eating Disorders & Recovery – Un/imaginable future selves: A discourse analysis of in-patients’ talk about recovery from an eating disorder

Un/imaginable future selves: A discourse analysis of in-patients’ talk about recovery from an eating disorder, European Eating Disorders, 2010 Helen Malson, Lin Bailey, Simon Clarke, Janet Treasure, Gail Anderson, Michael Kohn Department of Psychology, University of the West of England, Bristol, UK Abstract: limited efficacy of treatments for eating disorders has been well documented. Yet [...]

OT – Client-Centred Practice – Translating knowledge to practice: An occupational therapy perspective

Translating knowledge to practice: An occupational therapy perspective, Australian Occupational Therapy Journal., 2010 Megan J. Metzler, Gerlinde A. Metz Abstract: Background/Aim: Translating knowledge to practice, also called ‘knowledge translation’, is increasingly recognised as a driving force to strengthen and improve the healthcare system. How knowledge translation fits with occupational therapy practice deserves examination. Methods: This paper will [...]

Alzheimer’s disease: clinical trials and drug development

Alzheimer’s disease: clinical trials and drug development, The Lancet Neurology, Volume 9, Issue 7, July 2010, Pages 702-716 Francesca Mangialasche MD Aging Research Center, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden Abstract: Alzheimer’s disease is the most common cause of dementia in elderly people. Research into Alzheimer’s disease therapy has been at least partly successful in terms of [...]

Budget 2010: taking the tough choices

Budget 2010: taking the tough choices  Click on the title above to access the full-text of this report Abstract: This report outlines a budget that aims to reduce around seven-eighths of the deficit through spending reductions and one-eighth through tax rises Lancashire Care staff can click on the link above to acces the report

Depression training for managers – Mental Health News

Depression training for managers  21st June 2010 Click on the title above to access this information Abstract: We have previously reported in Mental Health News on the beyondblue mental health training for managers which MHIP and NHS North West Workforce Strategy funded for 16 organisations in the North West. The training was delivered by the Sainsbury [...]

Autobiographical memory specificity, depression, and trauma in bipolar disorder

Autobiographical memory specificity, depression, and trauma in bipolar disorder, Mowlds, William; Shannon, Ciaran; McCusker, Christopher G.; Meenagh, Ciaran; Robinson, Derek; Wilson, Angela; Mulholland, Ciaran Department of Psychology, The Queens University of Belfast, Northern Ireland 2: Northern Health and Social Care Trust, Antrim, Northern Ireland 3: Division of Psychiatry and Neuroscience, The Queens University of Belfast, [...]

Health Anxiety & Salkovskis – Chronic pain syndrome associated with health anxiety: A qualitative thematic comparison between pain patients with high and low health anxiety

Chronic pain syndrome associated with health anxiety: A qualitative thematic comparison between pain patients with high and low health anxiety, British Journal of Clinical Psychology, Volume 48, Number 1, March 2009 , pp. 1-20(20) Tang, Nicole K. Y.; Salkovskis, Paul M.; Hodges, Amy; Soong, Elaina; Hanna, Magdi H.; Hester, Joan Department of Psychology, Institute of Psychiatry, King’s College London, London, UK [...]

Elaborating the cry of pain model of suicidality: Testing a psychological model in a sample of first-time and repeat self-harm patients

Elaborating the cry of pain model of suicidality: Testing a psychological model in a sample of first-time and repeat self-harm patients, British Journal of Clinical Psychology, Volume 49, Number 1, March 2010 , pp. 15-30(16) Rasmussen, Susan A.; Fraser, Louisa; Gotz, Michael; MacHale, Siobhan; Mackie, Rhona; Masterton, George; McConachie, Susan; O’Connor, Rory C. Department of Psychology, [...]

The psychosocial context of depressive rumination: Ruminative brooding predicts diminished relationship satisfaction in individuals with a history of past major depression

The psychosocial context of depressive rumination: Ruminative brooding predicts diminished relationship satisfaction in individuals with a history of past major depression, British Journal of Clinical Psychology, Volume 49, Number 2, June 2010 , pp. 275-280(6)  Pearson, Katherine A.; Watkins, Edward R.; Kuyken, Willem; Mullan, Eugene G. Mood Disorders Centre, University of Exeter, UK ,  School of Psychology, University [...]

Health Anxiety – New Directions in Health Anxiety: Introduction to the Special Issue

New Directions in Health Anxiety: Introduction to the Special Issue, Journal of Cognitive Psychotherapy, Volume 22, Number 2, 2008 Advances in Understanding and Treating Health Anxiety New Directions in Health Anxiety: Introduction to the Special Issue pp. 83-86(4) Author: Abramowitz, Jonathan S. Comparison of Unitary and Multidimensional Models of the Whiteley Index in a Nonclinical Sample: [...]

OCD – Belief in the obsessional doubt as a real probability and its relation to other obsessive-compulsive beliefs and to the severity of symptomatology

Belief in the obsessional doubt as a real probability and its relation to other obsessive-compulsive beliefs and to the severity of symptomatology, British Journal of Clinical Psychology, Volume 49, Number 1, March 2010 , pp. 67-85(19)  Grenier, Sébastien; O’Connor, Kieron P.; Bélanger, Claude Department of Psychology, Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada Abstract: Despite the important [...]

Bullying & Self-Harm – Vulnerabilities to deliberate self-harm among adolescents: The role of alexithymia and victimization

Vulnerabilities to deliberate self-harm among adolescents: The role of alexithymia and victimization, British Journal of Clinical Psychology, Volume 49, Number 2, June 2010 , pp. 151-162(12)   Garisch, Jessica Anne; Wilson, Marc Stewart School of Psychology, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand Abstract: This study investigates vulnerabilities to deliberate self-harm (DSH) among adolescents, specifically focusing on peer [...]

Salkovskis – A qualitative study of the acceptability of an intensive format for the delivery of cognitive-behavioural therapy for obsessive-compulsive disorder

A qualitative study of the acceptability of an intensive format for the delivery of cognitive-behavioural therapy for obsessive-compulsive disorder, British Journal of Clinical Psychology, Volume 49, Number 2, June 2010 , pp. 173-191(19) Bevan, Anna; Oldfield, Victoria B.; Salkovskis, Paul M. King’s College London, Institute of Psychiatry, London, UK 2: Centre for Anxiety Disorders and Trauma, [...]

NICE – Personal, social, health and economic education focusing on sex and relationships and alcohol education

Personal, social, health and economic education focusing on sex and relationships and alcohol education, NICE, 15th June 2010 Click on the title to access the NICE resources Abstract: School, college and community based personal, social, health and economic education focusing on sex and relationships and alcohol education. Lancashire Care staff can click on the link [...]

Dimebolin in Dementia

Dimebolin in Dementia, CNS Neuroscience & Therapeutics, 2010, pages 1-7 Deepak Sachdeva & Alistair Burns Moor Side Unit, Trafford General Hospital, Urmston, Manchester UK Psychiatry Research Group, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK Abstract: The treatment options for Alzheimer’s type dementia are limited to the use of acetyl-cholinesterase inhibitors, along with memantine in some cases, and [...]

Doctors should use NICE guidance to tackle health inequalities

Doctors should use NICE guidance to tackle health inequalities,  NICE, 15th June 2010 Click on the title above to access this information Abstract: Doctors should focus on tackling health inequalities as part of their everyday practice, a report by the Royal College of Physicians (RCP) concludes. Despite an increase in rates of life expectancy in [...]

Someone to talk to: the nurse and the depressed or suicidal older patient

Someone to talk to: the nurse and the depressed or suicidal older patient, Journal of Gerontological Nursing, 2010 May; 36 (5): 15-8 Plawecki LH; Amrhein DW Abstract: Depression and suicide are two major mental health problems affecting older adults, this country’s fastest growing population. As such, more nurses must become educated on assessing their geriatric [...]

Sleep disturbances in dementia

Sleep disturbances in dementia, Journal of Gerontological Nursing , 2010 May; 36(5): 9-14 Assistant Professor of Nursing and Claire M. Fagin Abstract: Approximately one quarter of adults with dementia experience sleep disturbances. The purpose of this article is to (a) describe and define sleep disturbances in individuals with dementia, (b) describe techniques to assess for [...]