Traumatic Events, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Attachment Style, and Working Alliance in a Sample of People With Psychosis

Traumatic Events, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Attachment Style, and Working Alliance in a Sample of People With Psychosis, Journal of Nervous & Mental Disease. 198(10):775-778, October 2010 Picken, Alicia L.; Berry, Katherine; Tarrier, Nicholas; Barrowclough, Christine Abstract: There is a high incidence of trauma and posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in people with a diagnosis of psychosis. [...]

Ups and Downs of Caring for Someone with Bi-Polar Disorder

Ups and Downs of Caring for Someone with Bipolar Disorder, May 2010, Lesley Jenkins You can click on the title to gain direct full-text access Abstract: Bipolar disorder is a unique illness.  It not only affects every aspect of a person’s emotional life, but also his/her carers relatives and friends. My carer and I have [...]

Physical Health – Walking for Health

Walking for Health - A cost-effective healthcare solution, July, 2010, Walking for Health (WFH) Click on the title above to access the full-text of this report Abstract: The average cost of physical inactivity, per PCT, is over £5,000,000 per year. Walking for Health is a tried and tested, cost-effective intervention that is proven to get sedentary people [...]

Understanding Bipolar Disorder – Why some people experience extreme mood states and what can help

Understanding Bipolar Disorder – Why some people experience extreme mood states and what can help, 2010, British Psychological Society Abstract:  A tendency to extreme moods can have significant benefits as well as sometimes leading to problems, says a report published today, 15 September 2010, by the British Psychological Society’s Division of Clinical Psychology. The report, Understanding Bipolar [...]

Physical Health – Physical health in schizophrenia: a challenge for antipsychotic therapy

Physical health in schizophrenia: a challenge for antipsychotic therapy, European Psychiatry, Volume 25, Supplement 2, June 2010, Pages S6-S11 Heald, A Ward 7 Office, Leighton Hospital, Middlewich Road, Crewe, Cheshire CW1 4QJ, UK   Abstract: In the management of schizophrenia, mental health outcomes are the principal focus of treatment. The objective is to control the [...]

Physical Health – Management of physical health in patients with schizophrenia: practical recommendations

Management of physical health in patients with schizophrenia: practical recommendations, European Psychiatry, Volume 25, Supplement 2, June 2010, Pages S41-S45 Heald, A et al. Leighton Hospital, Crewe, United-Kingdom Abstract: Improved physical health care is a pressing need for patients with schizophrenia. It can be achieved by means of a multidisciplinary team led by the psychiatrist. [...]

Suicide amongst psychiatric in-patients who abscond from the ward: a national clinical survey – University ofManchester

Suicide amongst psychiatric in-patients who abscond from the ward: a national clinical survey, BMC Psychiatry 2010, 10:14 Isabelle M Hunt , Kirsten Windfuhr , Nicola Swinson , Jenny Shaw , Louis Appleby , Nav Kapur  and the National Confidential Inquiry into Suicide and Homicide by People with Mental Illness National Confidential Inquiry into Suicide and Homicide [...]

Economic and social costs of mental health problems in 2009/10

Economic and social costs of mental health problems in 2009/10, 2010 click on the title above to access the full-text of this report Abstract: This policy paper calculates what the economic and social costs of mental illness are. The figure includes the costs of health and social care for people with mental health problems, lost [...]

Physical Health – Effect of a motivational group intervention upon exercise self efficacy and outcome expectations for exercise in Schizophrenia Spectrum Disorders (SSDs)

Effect of a motivational group intervention upon exercise self efficacy and outcome expectations for exercise in Schizophrenia Spectrum Disorders (SSDs), Journal of the American Psychiatric Nurses Association,  2010 April; 16(2): 105–113 Abstract: BACKGROUND: Persons with SSDs contend with multiple barriers to exercise. Interventions are needed to enhance attitudes theoretically linked to exercise behavior. OBJECTIVE: Examine effect [...]

Physical Health – Physical health in schizophrenia: a challenge for antipsychotic therapy.

Physical health in schizophrenia: a challenge for antipsychotic therapy, European Psychiatry, Volume 25, Supplement 2, June 2010, Pages S6-S11 A. Heald Ward 7 Office, Leighton Hospital, Middlewich Road, Crewe, Cheshire CW1 4QJ, UK Abstract: In the management of schizophrenia, mental health outcomes are the principal focus of treatment. The objective is to control the psychotic [...]

Physical Health – Implementing a physical health strategy in a mental health service

Implementing a physical health strategy in a mental health service, Australasian Psychiatry, October 2010, Vol. 18, No. 5 , Pages 456-459 Bridget Organ Manager Community and Primary Mental Health, Emma Nicholson Psychiatric Registrar and David Castle Chair of Psychiatry Abstract: Objective: The aim of this paper is to describe a comprehensive metabolic monitoring strategy within [...]

Physical Health – Adapting the severe mental illness physical Health Improvement Profile for use in primary care

Adapting the severe mental illness physical Health Improvement Profile for use in primary care, International Journal of Mental Health Nursing, Volume 19, Number 5, October 2010 , pp. 350-355(6) Hardy, Sheila; Gray, Richard Faculty of Health, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK Abstract: People with severe mental illness (SMI) have a higher incidence of long-term physical conditions, [...]

Physical Health – Promoting physical health in youth mental health services: ensuring routine monitoring of weight and metabolic indices in a first episode psychosis clinic

Promoting physical health in youth mental health services: ensuring routine monitoring of weight and metabolic indices in a first episode psychosis clinic, Australasian Psychiatry, October 2010, Vol. 18, No. 5 , Pages 451-455 Hetrick, Sarah et al. Centre of Excellence, Orygen Youth Health Research Centre, Centre for Youth Mental Health, University of Melbourne; headspace (National [...]

OT – Exploration of the occupations of people with schizophrenia

Exploration of the occupations of people with schizophrenia, Australian Occupational Therapy Journal, Volume 57, Number 5, October 2010 , pp. 310-317(8) Urlic, Karen; Lentin, Primrose La Trobe University, School of Occupational Therapy, Bundoora, Victoria, Australia Abstract: Participation in occupations is a powerful determinant of wellbeing. This study focusses on obtaining a greater understanding of the occupational experiences [...]

Social problem solving, autobiographical memory, trauma, and depression in women with borderline personality disorder and a history of suicide attempts

Social problem solving, autobiographical memory, trauma, and depression in women with borderline personality disorder and a history of suicide attempts, British Journal of Clinical Psychology, Volume 49, Number 3, September 2010 , pp. 327-342(16) Maurex, Liselotte; Lekander, Mats; Nilsonne, Åsa; Andersson, Eva E.; Åsberg, Marie; Öhman, Arne Abstract: The primary aim of this study was to [...]

Working it Out – Employment for people with a mental health condition

Working it Out – Employment for people with a mental health condition, March 2010 Briefing Click on the title above to access the full-text of the briefing Abstract: This NHS Confederation briefing examines the relationship between employment and mental health and looks at ways of getting mental health service users back to work. Lancashire care [...]

Physical Health – RETHINK – Factsheet on Physical health & Nutrition

Physical Health and Nutrition , RETHINK, 2009 Click on the title above to download the 7 page factshsteet Abstract: As with many other long term health conditions, people with severe mental illness are at higher risk of developing physical health problems. This factsheet answers the following questions: What physical health problems are associated with mental illness? [...]

The relationship between dispositional mindfulness and conditional goal setting in depressed patients

The relationship between dispositional mindfulness and conditional goal setting in depressed patients, British Journal of Clinical Psychology, Volume 49, Number 3, September 2010 , pp. 281-290(10) Crane, Catherine; Barnhofer, Thorsten; Hargus, Emily; Amarasinghe, Myanthi; Winder, Rosie Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, UK Abstract: This study explored the association between conditional goal setting (CGS; the tendency [...]

OT – A qualitative study of service user experiences of occupation in forensic mental health

A qualitative study of service user experiences of occupation in forensic mental health, Australian Occupational Therapy Journal, Volume 57, Number 5, October 2010 , pp. 339-344(6) Craik, Christine; Bryant, Wendy; Ryan, Amanda; Barclay, Samantha; Brooke, Nicole; Mason, Adele; Russell, Peter 1: Brunel University, West London 2: West London Mental Health NHS Trust, London, UK Abstract: This qualitative study explored occupational engagement of [...]

Cochrane – Self-help and guided self-help for eating disorders

Self-help and guided self-help for eating disorders,    Cochrane,  2009 Sarah S J Perkins1, Rebecca RM Murphy2, Ulrike US Schmidt1, Chris Williams3 1Section of Eating Disorders, PO Box 59, Institute of Psychiatry, King’s College London, London, UK. 2Department of Psychiatry, Warneford Hospital, Oxford, UK. 3Psychological Medicine, University of Glasgow, Gartnavel Royal Hospital, Glasgow, UK Perkins SSJ, [...]

The Gold Standards Framework – Enabling a gold standard of care for all people nearing the end of life

The Gold Standards Framework – Enabling a gold standard of care for all people nearing the end of life Advance Care Planning The GSF Toolkit Click on the title above to access the website About: The National GSF Central Team, based in the NHS, develop frameworks and training programmes to enable generic care providers deliver [...]

The work of nurse practitioners

The work of nurse practitioners, Journal of Advanced Nursing, Volume 66, Number 10, October 2010 , pp. 2160-2169 Glen Gardner et al. Abstract: This paper is a report of a study of variations in the pattern of nurse practitioner work in a range of service fields and geographical locations, across direct patient care, indirect patient care [...]