Frank Bruno Prize Fight Against Bipolar – Pendulum – The journal of MDF the Bipolar Organisation

Frank Bruno Prize Fight Against Bipolar -  Pendulum – The journal of MDF the Bipolar Organisation, Vol.26 (2) Summer 2010 Click on the title to access the full-text, Lancashire Care staff can email: susan.jennings@lancashirecare.nhs.uk Abstract: Former heavyweight boxing champion of the world Frank Bruno was diagnosed with bipolar disorder in 1998. Here, he explains to [...]

MDF – Employers’ & Employees’ Guide to Bipolar Disorder & Employment

MDF – Employers’ & Employees’ Guide to Bipolar Disorder & Employment,   MDF, The Bipolar Organisation Click on the title to access both guides from MDF Abstract: New Employment Guides! After an increase in demand for both employee and employer support we are pleased to launch two brand-new Employment guides. MDF has produced the two guides, [...]

Is underdiagnosis the main pitfall in diagnosing bipolar disorder? No – Is underdiagnosis the main pitfall in diagnosing bipolar disorder? Yes

Is underdiagnosis the main pitfall in diagnosing bipolar disorder?   No - Is underdiagnosis the main pitfall in diagnosing bipolar disorder?   Yes   BMJ, 27th March 2010, Vol.340 pp.686-687 Daniel J Smith, clinical senior lecturer in psychiatry1, Nassir Ghaemi, professor of psychiatry2 1 Cardiff University School of Medicine, Cardiff, 2 Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, USA [...]

Special Issue on BIPOLAR – 19 Articles

Special Issue on BIPOLAR – 19 Articles, Clinical Psychology: Science & Practice, Vol.16 (2) June 2009 Introduction to the Special Issue: Knowledge about bipolar disorder is rapidly advancing. One consequence is that current evidence about the diagnostic definitions, prevalence, phenomenology, associated features and underlying processes, risk factors and predictors, and assessment or treatment strategies for bipolar [...]

When being bipolar gets you the job: service user research

When being bipolar gets you the job: service user research, Mental Health Practice, 2009 Vol. 13 (2) pp. 26-8 Debbie Mayes -  Service user researcher, Spectrum Centre for Mental Health Research, Lancaster University Abstract: Service user Debbie Mayes has worked as a mental health researcher for 20 years. She explains the benefits and pitfalls of the [...]

What works for people with bipolar disorder? Tips from the experts

What works for people with bipolar  disorder? Tips from the experts, Journal of Affective Disorders, Volume 124, Issues 1-2, July 2010, Pages 76-84   Melinda Suto,  et al.   Abstract: Little is known about how patients successfully manage their bipolar disorder (BD). This is a remarkable gap in the BD literature, given that current treatments [...]

NHS services ‘failing to support people who self-harm’ – The evidence painted a worrying picture of standards of care in UK hospitals

NHS services ‘failing to support people who self-harm’  June 2010, Royal College of Psychiatrist’s Click on the title to access this news article Self-harm, suicide and risk: helping people who self-harm Click on the above to access the full-text of this report Abstract: Many people who harm themselves are failing to receive the help they [...]

Bipolar & Systematic Review – Disorder-specific psychosocial interventions for bipolar disorder—A systematic review of the evidence for mental health nursing practice

Disorder-specific psychosocial interventions for bipolar disorder—A systematic review of the evidence for mental health nursing practice, International Journal of Nursing Studies, Volume 47, Issue 7, July 2010, Pages 896-908 Abstract: Aims To systematically review the evidence for the efficacy of psychosocial interventions for bipolar disorder and examine the implications for mental health nursing practice. Background [...]

Why We Need Qualitative Research in Suicidology

Why We Need Qualitative Research in Suicidology, Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior, Feb 2010, Vol 40, (1)  74-80 Heidi Hjelmeland, PhD and Birthe Loa Knizek, PhD Abstract: Using the differentiation between explanations and understanding from philosophy of science as the point of departure, a critical look at the current mainstream suicidological research was launched. An almost exclusive [...]

How to evaluate your CAMH service

How to evaluate your CAMH service   Royal College of Psychiatrists (RCPsych) Click on the title above to access this online module Abstract: The aim of this module is to provide you with the knowledge and understanding to enable you to undertake evaluation of your Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS).  The module will take you through [...]

Most Read Articles – Occupational Therapy in Health Care – MOHO

Most Read Articles – Occupational Therapy in Health Care Below are 4 of the most read articles from – Occupational Therapy in Health Care Choice, Knowledge, and Utilization of a Practice Theory: A National Study of Occupational Therapists Who Use the Model of Human Occupation,  2009, Vol. 23, No. 1 , Pages 60-71 Application of [...]

Talking Mats® helps people with dementia to communicate more effectively with family carers

Talking Mats® helps people with dementia to communicate more effectively with family carers,  Joseph Rowntree Foundation, 2010 Click on the title to access the full-text of this report Abstract: Talking Mats can help people with dementia and their carers make decisions. Recent government guidance recommends that people with dementia are encouraged to express their views [...]

Eating disorders – All better? How former anorexia nervosa patients define recovery and engaged in treatment

All better? How former anorexia nervosa patients define recovery and engaged in treatment , European Eating Disorders Review, 2010 ,Volume 18 Issue 4, Pages 260 - 270 Alison M. Darcy, Shaina Katz, Kathleen Kara Fitzpatrick, Sarah Forsberg, Linsey Utzinger, James Lock Abstract: The purpose of this study was to explore how individuals with anorexia nervosa (AN) engage in treatment and define [...]

Dementia Awareness Week – Remember the person

Remember the Person, Alzheimer’s Society, 2010 Click on the title above to access the full-text Dementia Awareness Week is taking place in England and Wales between 4 – 10 July 2010 and in Northern Ireland from 13 – 19 June 2010. This Dementia Awareness Week, Alzheimer’s Society is asking people to think about the people [...]

My Name is not Dementia – people with dementia discuss quality of life indicators

My Name is not Dementia – people with dementia discuss quality of life indicators, Alzheimer’s Society, 2010 Click on the title to access the full-text of this report Abstract: Following on from the Dementia – out of the shadows  report, in which people with dementia spoke out about stigma and the impact that the diagnosis [...]

Mindfulness – Training Teachers to Deliver Mindfulness-Based Interventions: Learning from the UK Experience

Training Teachers to Deliver Mindfulness-Based Interventions: Learning from the UK Experience, Mindfulness, early view, 2010 Rebecca S. Crane, Willem Kuyken, Richard P. Hastings, Neil Rothwell and J. Mark G. Williams Centre for Mindfulness Research and Practice, School of Psychology, Bangor University, Gwynedd, LL57 1UT, UK Mood Disorders Centre, School of Psychology, University of Exeter, Exeter, [...]

Lean Six Sigma – getting better all the time

Lean Six Sigma – getting better all the time, International Journal of Six Sigma, 2010, Vol.1 (1) pp. 9-29 Ronald D. Snee Abstract: Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to assess Lean Six Sigma to identify important advances over the last ten to 15 years and discuss emerging trends that suggest how the methodology [...]

Leading and leadership: reflections on a case study

Leading and leadership: reflections on a case study, Journal of Nursing Management, 2010,Volume 18 Issue 4, Pages 418 - 424 PAULINE JOYCE Doctoral Student, Dublin City University, Dublin, Ireland Abstract: Aim The aim of this case study was to explore if observing leaders in the context of their day-to-day work can provide an insight into how they lead in particular circumstances. [...]

Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction in Oncology: Evaluating Mindfulness and Rumination as Mediators of Change in Depressive Symptoms

Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction in Oncology: Evaluating Mindfulness and Rumination as Mediators of Change in Depressive Symptoms, Mindfulness, Volume 1, Number 1 / March, 2010 Laura E. Labelle et al. Abstract: Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR), an 8-week group psychosocial intervention, has received increasing research support for its efficacy in oncology settings. Changes associated with MBSR participation for people [...]

Using family work to support an Asian man coping with psychosis

Using family work to support an Asian man coping with psychosis, Mental Health Practice, 2010 Jun; 13 (9): 30-6 Green R; Smith G; Robina Green is community psychiatric nurse, Gina Smith is nurse consultant,Indira Patel is community psychiatric nurse, Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust Abstract: When mental illness occurs in an Asian [...]

The patient will see you now – Rebalancing relationships between people who use services and those who provide them

The patient will see you now   -  Rebalancing relationships between people who use services and those who provide them Click on the title above to access the full-text of this special issue from the HSJ – Health Service Journal Abstract: The Health Foundation knows that to achieve the best health outcomes and experience, people need [...]

LEAN Case Study – Using Lean to reduce falls on In-patient acute elderly medical wards

Using LEAN to reduce fall on in-patient acute elderly medical wards   Royal Bolton Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, Case Studies page Click on the two links to access the full-text Abstract: During June 2009 two acute medical wards with predominately older people underwent a one-week mapping gateway event. The Bolton Improving Care System was used which [...]

LEAN – Releasing Time to Care – The Productive Ward – Final Report

Releasing Time to Care: The Productive Ward  , 2010, NHS Institute for Innovation & Improvement Click on the title above to access the final report and summary Abstract: Following a period of intensive testing and development with a number of acute trusts in England, the NHS Institute has now launched a series of modules that [...]

LEAN – Royal Bolton NHS Foundation Trust, How they Implement LEAN

Royal Bolton NHS Foundation Trust, How they Implement LEAN Click on the title above to access examples of Royal Bolton’s good practice About: Lean a Basic Guide Lean Glossary of Terms Lean Presentations etc Case studies & achievements Further references & links

LEAN – Lean thinking and more: Development of patient needs types in psychiatric intensive care

Lean thinking and more: Development of patient needs types in psychiatric intensive care, Journal of Psychiatric Intensive Care (2010), 6:57-63 Thomas Kearney and  Stephen Dye Community Acute Service Manager, Oxford and Buckinghamshire Mental Health Foundation Trust, Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, UK Consultant Psychiatrist (In-patients), Suffolk Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust, St Clements Hospital, Ipswich, Suffolk, UK Abstract: [...]

LEAN – Application of lean thinking to health care: issues and observations

Application of lean thinking to health care: issues and observations, International Journal for Quality in Health Care 2009 21(5):341-347 Tom Joosten Abstract: Background. Incidents and quality problems are a prime cause why health care leaders are calling to redesign health care delivery. One of the concepts used is lean thinking. Yet, lean often leads to [...]

LEAN – Going lean in the NHS

Going lean in the NHS: how lean thinking will enable the NHS to get more out of the same resources , 2007, NHS Institute for Innovation and Improvement Click on the title above to access the resource Abstract: An introductory guide for healthcare organisations seeking to: improve quality and efficiency improve patient care and experience improve [...]

LEAN – Staying Lean – Thriving, Not Just Surviving

Staying Lean – Thriving, Not Just Surviving , IMRC , Cardiff University, 2008 Peter Hines et al. Click on the title above to access the full-text of this document Abstract: In the current climate, the pressure is on organisations to improve their performance to be able to compete in a global marketplace and this requires being [...]

LEAN – Lean thinking – Website

Lean thinking  NHS Institute for Innovation & Improvement Click on the title above to access this website About: Lean is an improvement approach to improve flow and eliminate waste that was developed by Toyota. Lean is basically about getting the right things to the right place, at the right time, in the right quantities, while [...]

LEAN – LEAN Enterprise Research Centre – Website

LEAN Enterprise Research Centre    Website Click on the title above to access this website About: What is LEAN thinking: The term ‘lean’ was popularised in the seminal book ‘The Machine that Changed the World’ , which clearly illustrated – for the first time – the significant performance gap between the Japanese and western automotive industries.  [...]