CBT - Coping Tool Kit for Psychosis

Cognitive Coping Tool Kit for Psychosis: Development of a Group-Based Curriculum
Cognitive and Behavioral Practice, Volume 14, Issue 1, February 2007, Pages 98-106
Abstract:
This article outlines an 8-week curriculum that was created to help outpatients develop cognitive and behavioral skills for coping with delusions and hallucinations as well as to reduce patients’ comorbid subjective levels of distress (e.g., depression, [...]

CBT - Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Across the Stages of Psychosis: Prodromal, First Episode, and Chronic Schizophrenia

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Across the Stages of Psychosis: Prodromal, First Episode, and Chronic Schizophrenia, Online Early Edition, Cognitive and Behavioral Practice 2008
Lucia R. Valmaggia, Paul Tabraham, Eric Morris, Theo K. Bouman
Abstract
Since the early 1990s, cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) has been increasingly used as an adjunctive treatment for psychotic disorders. This paper describes the CBT of [...]

‘Better Safe than Sorry’ - Dangerousness and Mental Health Policy

  Dangerousness and mental health policy, April 2008, Journal of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing 15 (3) , 186–194
Abstract: Mental health policy development in the UK has become increasingly dominated by the assumed need to prevent violence and alleviate public concerns about the dangers of the mentally ill living in the community. Risk management [...]

NICE - Promoting children’s social and emotional wellbeing in primary education

  Promoting children’s social and emotional wellbeing in primary education, 26 March 2008. NICE Public Health Guidance 12.
Abstract:
Aims: Children’s social and emotional wellbeing is important in its own right but also because it affects their physical health (both as a child and as an adult) and can determine how well they do at school. Good [...]

Psychosis and Cannabis the Link

   The implications of recent findings on the link between cannabis and psychosis , Addiction, Volume 102, Issue 2, Page 173-176, Feb 2007 - Click above for full-text
Abstract: Recent studies have increased long-standing concerns that cannabis use can trigger or exacerbate psychosis and schizophrenia. Widely publicized, these findings have led to calls for tougher laws [...]

NICE Guidance - Atypical psychosis (first onset) - neuro-imaging

    Atypical psychosis (first onset) - neuro-imaging, NICE, February 2008
Summary
Structural neuroimaging, using methods called magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) or computed axial tomography (CT) scanning, is not recommended for use routinely to examine all people who have had a first episode of psychosis.

CBT, Psychosis and Chronic Schizophrenia

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Across the Stages of Psychosis: Prodromal, First Episode, and Chronic Schizophrenia, (200 Cognitive and Behavioral Practice, Lucia R. Valmaggia, Paul Tabraham, Eric Morris and Theo K. Bouman
Abstract:  Since the early 1990s, cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) has been increasingly used as an adjunctive treatment for psychotic disorders. This paper describes the CBT [...]

Medium Secure Burnout - The experience of staff caring for men with learning disability and psychosis in a medium secure setting

Expressed emotion and burnout: the experience of staff caring for men with learning disability and psychosis in a medium secure setting, Journal of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing, Volume 14, Issue 3, Page 267-276, May 2007,
Abstract: This study examines the level of expressed emotion (EE) and burnout in staff caring for people with learning disabilities [...]

The Lancet - Cannabis Use and the Risk of Psychotic or Affective Mental Health

    ‘Cannabis use and risk of psychotic or affective mental health outcomes: a systematic review’ The Lancet (2007); 370:319-328. Authors: Theresa H M Moore, Stanley Zammit, Anne Lingford-Hughes, Thomas R E Barnes, Peter B Jones, Margaret Burke, Glyn Lewis

Summary
Background Whether cannabis can cause psychotic or aff ective symptoms that persist beyond transient intoxication is [...]

Educating Reefer - Cannabis & Psychosis Link

  Educating Reefer: effective health education and warnings on cannabis, February 2008, Rethink
A Rethink Campaigns report on cannabis research and the links to psychosis, recommending better education for the general public.
The evidence of a link between cannabis and psychosis has become increasingly well established in recent years, yet still almost one in four people believe [...]

Forensic Mental Health Experts

    Expert Paper Series 2007
In April 2000 the National Forensic Mental Health R&D Programme’s Advisory Committee commissioned a series of expert papers covering the categories identified from an earlier priority question setting exercise undertaken by representatives of key stakeholder groups. These papers were written to provide an overview of ongoing and completed research in addition to [...]

BIGPOLAR on BIPOLAR

  National Knowledge Week on Bipolar Disorder from the NLH
National Knowledge Week is scheduled for this week 10-14 December 2007
The 2007 Bipolar Disorder Annual Evidence Update is a collection of the latest research on developments in bipolar disorder that has arisen over the past year. The Annual Evidence Update follows on from our Bipolar Disorder Knowledge [...]

Early Detection in Psychosis

NIMHE (2007) Early detection in psychosis  This site has been created as a part of the NIMHE website to provide resources to highlight the best evidence and practice around the treatment of early psychosis, particularly focusing on the opportunity provided by detecting and treating those with an At Risk Mental State for psychosis.

Report on Early detection and intervention for young people at risk of psychosis

NIMHE (2007) Early Detection  The key message here is that starting treatment
very early in the pathway can lead to a much better outlook. This report will explore some of the development challenges for specialist services, illustrating how this emerging evidence base can be translated into the real world by providing examples of good practice in specialist [...]