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News from all corners of the world
Department of Health
Payment by Results: Draft 2012-13 Mental Health Guidance
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National News
Thousands of new mothers suffer in silence from postnatal depression Tens of thousands of new mothers are suffering in silence from postnatal depression with many not speaking up for fear of having their children taken away, a study reveals Ecstasy trial planned to test benefits for trauma victims Scientists hope to overcome tabloid anger after US trial suggests clubbers' drug can bring dramatic improvements for PTSD sufferers Dealing with hostile and intimidating parents Recent serious case reviews have concluded that social workers struggle to deal with hostile and intimidating parents Prison bullying linked to suicides in custody More effective reporting and recording of bullying among prisoners must be implemented to reduce the number of suicides within custody Up to 200,000 care assistants paid below minimum rate At least 150,000 support workers and care assistants in the UK may be paid less than the minimum wage, according to research Council wants to charge parents who put children into care Parents who put their children into care could soon be forced to foot the bill, under plans being considered by a council in England Arrests over suspected ill-treatment at Southern Cross home Two current or former staff at a Southern Cross nursing home have been arrested and bailed on suspicion of ill-treating or neglecting residents Personal budgets boost for continuing care clients People with continuing healthcare needs will have the right to request a personal health budget by April 2014 Children miss out on short breaks due to funding confusion
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Children with epilepsy, or other conditions causing fits, are missing out on short breaks due to confusion over whether funding should be provided by local authorities or primary care trusts, according to Every Disabled Child Matters Heroin and crack cocaine users in treatment falls The number of heroin and crack cocaine users needing treatment in England has fallen by 10,000 in two years Coroners’ verdicts and suicide statistics in England and Wales Suicide is the most tragic consequence of mental illness, and it accounted for 4648 deaths in England and Wales in 2009 Bus to tour Scotland to raise awareness of dementia The Alzheimer Scotland dementia community roadshow aims to reach 10,000 people over the next three years Disabilities Green Paper pathfinders to pay for services twice Councils who have signed up to get more disabled children onto personal budgets will be forced to pay twice for service provision it has been revealed 30,000 more disabled children in poverty than previously thought There are more than 30,000 more disabled children living in poverty in the UK than had been previously estimated by the government, according to The Children's Society
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International News
October 10th is World Mental Health day
New Data-Mining Effort Launched To Study Mental Disorders Chicago will be home to a new $13.75 million project that will apply data mining methods to better understand the genetic and environmental factors behind neuropsychiatric disorders
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RESEARCH RESEARCH
New Approach Simplifies The Search For More Specific Drugs For Mood Disorders Psychiatric ailments such as depression, obsessive-compulsive disorder or anxiety states are often associated with disturbances in the metabolism of the neurotransmitter serotonin Absolute risk for suicide remains high in mental health disorder patients Among patients with mental health disorders, the absolute risk for suicide is greatest in men with bipolar disorder and women with schizophrenia
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Use Of Sick Leave And Health Services May Be Reduced By Referring Patients To Talking Therapies According to research referring patients with mental health problems to talking therapies potentially cuts using healthcare services and the amount of sick leave Mental disorders among frequent attenders in primary care: a comparison with routine attenders Frequent attenders account for a large proportion of primary care (PC) contacts, referrals, and prescriptions Merging the Fields of Mental Health and Social Enterprise: Lessons from Abroad and Cumulative Findings from Research with Homeless Youth Despite the growing integration of supported employment within the mental health system in the United States as well as the widespread use of social enterprises abroad, the fields of mental health and social enterprises remain largely separate in the USA
Addictions
Substance abuse, alcoholism, Position in Social Networks May Predict Adolescent Alcohol Use Having more popular, more connected friends who drink ups adolescent risk of alcohol use onset Young Adults Want To Recover From Addiction But Need Help To Make It Happen Young adults undergoing addiction treatment arrive ready and willing to make the personal changes that bring about recovery, but it's the help and guidance received during treatment that build and sustain those changes Risk Taking and the Adolescent Reward System: A Potential Common Link to Substance Abuse Increased risk-taking behavior has been associated with addiction, a disorder also linked to abnormalities in reward processing
Anxiety Disorders
The Best Treatment Of Anxiety May Not Involve The Drugs That Recent Literature Suggests A recent data analysis that was published in the British Medical Journal (BMJ) suggested that antidepressant drugs may offer the best treatment for generalized anxiety disorder Social anxiety and difficulty disengaging threat: Evidence from eye-tracking Theoretical models of social phobia propose that biased attention contributes to the maintenance of symptoms; however these theoretical models make opposing predictions Difficulties in disengaging attentional resources from self-generated thoughts moderate the link between dysphoria and maladaptive self-referential thinking
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Negative emotions increase self-focused attention, a core feature of depression and anxietyrelated disorders
Dementia
Alzheimer’s
Laughter Might Be Good Medicine for Alzheimer's Patients Humor therapy eased agitation as much as drugs, without the side effects, in Australian study Small Study Links Surgery and Anesthesia With Alzheimer's Post-op changes in cerebral spinal fluid may indicate progression of brain disease, experts say Blood Tests May Hold Clues To Pace Of Alzheimer's Disease Progression A team of scientists say they may have found a way to predict how quickly patients with Alzheimer's diseasewill lose cognitive function by looking at ratios of two fatty compounds in their blood Alzheimer's Might Be Transmissible in Similar Way as Infectious Prion Diseases, Research Suggests The brain damage that characterizes Alzheimer's disease may originate in a form similar to that of infectious prion diseases such as bovine spongiform encephalopathy (mad cow) and Creutzfeldt-Jakob, according to newly published research Regional Cerebral Blood Flow Abnormalities Associated With Apathy and Depression in Alzheimer Disease The aim of this study was to identify brain areas related to apathy or depression in patients with Alzheimer disease Self-Rating of Health As Poor, Fair Ups Risk of Dementia Poor self-reported health also correlates with vascular dementia and Alzheimer's disease
Depression
Bipolar disorders Can Antidepressant Drugs Worsen The Long Term Course Of Depression? There is increasing awareness that, in some cases, long-term use of antidepressant drugs may enhance the biochemical vulnerability to depression and worsen its long-term outcome and symptomatic expression, decreasing both its likelihood of subsequent response to pharmacological treatment and the duration of symptom-free periods Impulsivity, aggression linked to suicide attempts in mood disorder patients Impulsive and aggressive traits are strongly correlated in mood disorder patients with a history of suicide attempts, but not in those without such a history Use of memantine for the treatment of dementia The term 'dementia' encompasses a number of neurodegenerative diseases of which Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the most common Reasons for alcohol consumption differ by mood state in BD patients
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Patients with bipolar disorder (BD) drink more alcohol when depressed or manic than when euthymic, and their reasons for drinking change according to mood state Life goals group therapy program benefits BD patients A life goals group therapy program for patients with bipolar disorder helps reduce hospitalization rates, increase mood stability, and prevent relapses
Dual Diagnosis
Risk of Death From Accidental Overdose Associated With Psychiatric and Substance Use Disorders Despite dramatic increases in the rate of fatal accidental overdose in recent years, risk factors for this outcome remain poorly understood, particularly in clinical populations Clinical Considerations for Long-acting Injectable Risperidone's Use on Cocaine Dependence and Dual Diagnosis The aim of this study was to evaluate the prognosis of patients with cocaine dependence and dual diagnosis when long-acting injectable risperidone is used in their treatment Protocols of Dual Diagnosis Intervention in Schizophrenia Objective: To review the existing literature on the psychopharmacological and psychotherapeutic treatment of patients with both schizophrenia and a substance use disorder
Eating Disorders
A fine-grained analysis of eating behavior in women with bulimia nervosa In the current study, we were interested in developing a typology of eating in patients with bulimia nervosa based on the size of the eating episode, whether the episode was followed by self-induced vomiting, and the degree of loss of control self-reported by participants Eating disorders and major depression: role of anger and personality This study aimed to evaluate comorbidity for MD in a large ED sample and both personality and anger as clinical characteristics of patients with ED and MD
Forensic Psychiatry
Child Abuse Homicide Offenders Convicted At Similar Rate To Adult Homicide Offenders According to a study child abuse homicide offenders and adult homicide offenders seem to be
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convicted at a similar rate Treatment terminable and interminable: Implications of the Mental Health Act 2007 in England and Wales for the treatment of borderline personality disorder
Learning Disabilities
Parents of Children With Down Syndrome Happy and Proud Also, vast majority of siblings express love, pride; individuals with Down syndrome are happy Promising Drug Treatment For Improving Language, Social Function In People With Autism Most drug therapy interventions for people with autism have targeted psychiatric problems, including aggression, anxiety and obsessive behavior Autistic Mice Act a Lot Like Human Patients: Geneticists Develop Promising Mouse Model for Testing New Autism Therapies UCLA scientists have created a mouse model for autism that opens a window into the biological mechanisms that underlie the disease and offers a promising way to test new treatment approaches Early Anesthesia Exposures Tied to Learning Disabilities Multiple exposures before age 2 does not increase need for individualized education programs Older Dads Can Pass on Gene Mutations That Lower Intellect Study suggests changes in chromosomes may account for some cases, especially in older fathers An update on the pharmacotherapy of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder in adults Adults with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder are more frequently presenting for diagnosis and treatment The Accuracy Of Autism Diagnosis In Children With Down Syndrome Validated By New Findings New findings from a 16-year study confirm that the Diagnostic and Statistic Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) can be used to accurately identify autism spectrum disorders in children with Down syndrome, according to research from Kennedy Krieger Institute
Nursing Research
Recovery from Serious Mental Illness: A Concept Analysis This paper examines the concept of recovery in the context of serious mental illness Substance Abuse Treatment for Women who are Under Correctional Supervision in the
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Community: A Systematic Review of Qualitative Findings This systematic review was conducted to more fully analyze qualitative research findings relating to community-based court-supervised substance abuse treatment for women and to make recommendations regarding treatment enhancement
Obsessive Compulsive Disorders
An exploration of economic reasoning in hoarding disorder patients Current models of hoarding disorder (HD) emphasize problems of decision-making Auditory novelty processing is enhanced in obsessive-compulsive disorder Cognitive models propose that anxiety disorders are associated with an attentional bias toward potentially threatening stimuli Prevalence and clinical characteristics of mental rituals in a longitudinal clinical sample of obsessive-compulsive disorder Obsessive-compulsive disorder is a chronic and debilitating anxiety disorder associated with significant impairment in quality of life and functioning
Occupational Therapy
Occupational Therapy in Vocational Rehabilitation of Adults with Mental Illness This publication presents a study that analyses the effectiveness of client-oriented Occupational Therapy methods in Austria concerning improvement of the occupational performance of persons with mental illness Weight loss intervention for people with serious mental illness: a randomized controlled trial of the RENEW program The study assessed phases one and two of a three-phase weight-loss program called RENEW-Recovering Energy Through Nutrition and Exercise for Weight Loss--among individuals with serious mental illness at four mental health centers
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
Topiramate Effective in Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Re-experiencing symptoms, avoidance/numbing symptoms improve significantly with topiramate
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Some Treatments Appear To Help Reduce Some Cases Of PTSD Symptoms In Trauma Survivors According to a study cognitive therapy, prolonged exposure therapy as well as delayed prolonged exposure therapy, seem to reduce the symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder in individuals who have recently experienced a traumatic event Mental health tests don't catch all troubled troops Mental health assessments given to all soldiers after deployment may miss many cases of depression and post-traumatic stress disorder A Shot of Cortisone Stops Traumatic Stress, Study Suggests New hope for preventing the development of PTSD has been uncovered -- and the key is a single dose of a common medication Prolonged Exposure, Cognitive Therapy Prevent Chronic PTSD Prolonged exposure, cognitive therapy, delayed PE, but not escitalopram, placebo prevent chronic PTSD
Psychology
Antisocial Personality Traits Predict Utilitarian Responses To Moral Dilemmas A study found that people who endorse actions consistent with an ethic of utilitarianism - the view that what is the morally right thing to do is whatever produces the best overall consequences - tend to possess psychopathic and Machiavellian personality traits There is no Such Thing as Attention Given that the core issues of attention research have been recognized for millenia, we do not know as much about attention as we should
Schizophrenia
Severe Schizophrenia Improves With Cognitive Therapy Cognitive therapy has dynamically improved the most neurologically impaired, poorly functioning schizophrenic patients Primary negative symptom status ‘unstable’ over time in FES patients Initial primary negative symptom status in patients with first-episode schizophrenia is not predictive of primary negative symptom status over time Brain memory finding may help schizophrenia research A variation in a part of the brain may explain why some people have a better memory of reality than others and could advance understanding of brain disorders like schizophrenia Schizophrenia patients show abnormal fiber geometry in the corpus callosum Patients with schizophrenia exhibit abnormal fiber geometry in the corpus callosum, which may indicate transcallosal misconnection
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Improving treatment adherence in patients with schizophrenia Nonadherence to antipsychotic medications is an enormous challenge for clinicians and patients in the treatment of schizophrenia Medication nonadherence increases rehospitalisation risk in schizophrenia patients A short duration of initial hospitalization and early nonadherence to antipsychotic medication after discharge are significant and modifiable risk factors for rehospitalisation in patients with schizophrenia or schizoaffective disorder
Social Work
Introducing the Mental Capacity Advocate (IMCA) Service and the Reform of Adult Safeguarding Procedures Contemporary welfare is closely linked to policies designed to foster individual responsibility and self-development The Extent and Correlates of the Utilisation of Empowerment Strategies: A Survey of Social Workers in the Field of Partner Violence Empowerment has been treated as an intervening goal in many areas of social work practices to strengthen clients so they could break through the status of disadvantage and, in turn, increase social functioning and quality of life
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Books, Conferences, Websites & Journal Tocs
NEW PUBLICATIONS
Books and reports hot of the press Click the title to connect to the website entry Learning from PPO investigations: Violence reduction, bullying and safety Prisons and Probation Ombudsman Merseyside Mental Health Needs Assessment Report - Populations at risk of mental health problems Liverpool Public Health Observatory Safeguarding Children Across Services: Messages from Research Mental Health in Social Work: A Casebook on Diagnosis and Strengths Based
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Assessment: 2nd Revised edition Working With Adults at Risk of Harm Mental Illness The Ethical Treatment of Depression: Autonomy Through Psychotherapy Crime in a Psychological Context: From Career Criminals to Criminal Careers Autism Spectrum Disorders Through The Lifespan Sibling Aggression: Assessment and Treatment
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CONFERENCES
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WEBSITES
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Mentall Heallth & Sociiall Care Current Awareness Bulllletiin Menta Hea th & Soc a Care Current Awareness Bu et n
No 319 No 319
h Octtober 10ttth 2011 Oc ober 10 h 2011
The Mental Health & Social Care Current Awareness Bulletin is produced at Essex Public Health Resource Unit Library
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Conttentt Con en
Department of Health
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Research Research
Addictions Anxiety Dementia Depression Dual Diagnosis Eating Disorders Forensic Psychiatry
National News International News
TIN WEBSITE
Learning Disabilities
Furtther Conttentt Fur her Con en
New Publications Conferences Useful Websites
Nursing Research O/C Disorders
EPHRU Mental Health Blog
MENTAL HEALTH BLOG
Occupational Therapy Post Traumatic Stress Psychology Schizophrenia
Journal TOCs
Minding Matters
Social Work
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CONTENT CONTENT
News from all corners of the world
Department of Health
Payment by Results: Draft 2012-13 Mental Health Guidance
back to CONTENTS LINKS
National News
Thousands of new mothers suffer in silence from postnatal depression Tens of thousands of new mothers are suffering in silence from postnatal depression with many not speaking up for fear of having their children taken away, a study reveals Ecstasy trial planned to test benefits for trauma victims Scientists hope to overcome tabloid anger after US trial suggests clubbers' drug can bring dramatic improvements for PTSD sufferers Dealing with hostile and intimidating parents Recent serious case reviews have concluded that social workers struggle to deal with hostile and intimidating parents Prison bullying linked to suicides in custody More effective reporting and recording of bullying among prisoners must be implemented to reduce the number of suicides within custody Up to 200,000 care assistants paid below minimum rate At least 150,000 support workers and care assistants in the UK may be paid less than the minimum wage, according to research Council wants to charge parents who put children into care Parents who put their children into care could soon be forced to foot the bill, under plans being considered by a council in England Arrests over suspected ill-treatment at Southern Cross home Two current or former staff at a Southern Cross nursing home have been arrested and bailed on suspicion of ill-treating or neglecting residents Personal budgets boost for continuing care clients People with continuing healthcare needs will have the right to request a personal health budget by April 2014 Children miss out on short breaks due to funding confusion
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Children with epilepsy, or other conditions causing fits, are missing out on short breaks due to confusion over whether funding should be provided by local authorities or primary care trusts, according to Every Disabled Child Matters Heroin and crack cocaine users in treatment falls The number of heroin and crack cocaine users needing treatment in England has fallen by 10,000 in two years Coroners’ verdicts and suicide statistics in England and Wales Suicide is the most tragic consequence of mental illness, and it accounted for 4648 deaths in England and Wales in 2009 Bus to tour Scotland to raise awareness of dementia The Alzheimer Scotland dementia community roadshow aims to reach 10,000 people over the next three years Disabilities Green Paper pathfinders to pay for services twice Councils who have signed up to get more disabled children onto personal budgets will be forced to pay twice for service provision it has been revealed 30,000 more disabled children in poverty than previously thought There are more than 30,000 more disabled children living in poverty in the UK than had been previously estimated by the government, according to The Children's Society
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International News
October 10th is World Mental Health day
New Data-Mining Effort Launched To Study Mental Disorders Chicago will be home to a new $13.75 million project that will apply data mining methods to better understand the genetic and environmental factors behind neuropsychiatric disorders
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RESEARCH RESEARCH
New Approach Simplifies The Search For More Specific Drugs For Mood Disorders Psychiatric ailments such as depression, obsessive-compulsive disorder or anxiety states are often associated with disturbances in the metabolism of the neurotransmitter serotonin Absolute risk for suicide remains high in mental health disorder patients Among patients with mental health disorders, the absolute risk for suicide is greatest in men with bipolar disorder and women with schizophrenia
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Use Of Sick Leave And Health Services May Be Reduced By Referring Patients To Talking Therapies According to research referring patients with mental health problems to talking therapies potentially cuts using healthcare services and the amount of sick leave Mental disorders among frequent attenders in primary care: a comparison with routine attenders Frequent attenders account for a large proportion of primary care (PC) contacts, referrals, and prescriptions Merging the Fields of Mental Health and Social Enterprise: Lessons from Abroad and Cumulative Findings from Research with Homeless Youth Despite the growing integration of supported employment within the mental health system in the United States as well as the widespread use of social enterprises abroad, the fields of mental health and social enterprises remain largely separate in the USA
Addictions
Substance abuse, alcoholism, Position in Social Networks May Predict Adolescent Alcohol Use Having more popular, more connected friends who drink ups adolescent risk of alcohol use onset Young Adults Want To Recover From Addiction But Need Help To Make It Happen Young adults undergoing addiction treatment arrive ready and willing to make the personal changes that bring about recovery, but it's the help and guidance received during treatment that build and sustain those changes Risk Taking and the Adolescent Reward System: A Potential Common Link to Substance Abuse Increased risk-taking behavior has been associated with addiction, a disorder also linked to abnormalities in reward processing
Anxiety Disorders
The Best Treatment Of Anxiety May Not Involve The Drugs That Recent Literature Suggests A recent data analysis that was published in the British Medical Journal (BMJ) suggested that antidepressant drugs may offer the best treatment for generalized anxiety disorder Social anxiety and difficulty disengaging threat: Evidence from eye-tracking Theoretical models of social phobia propose that biased attention contributes to the maintenance of symptoms; however these theoretical models make opposing predictions Difficulties in disengaging attentional resources from self-generated thoughts moderate the link between dysphoria and maladaptive self-referential thinking
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Negative emotions increase self-focused attention, a core feature of depression and anxietyrelated disorders
Dementia
Alzheimer’s
Laughter Might Be Good Medicine for Alzheimer's Patients Humor therapy eased agitation as much as drugs, without the side effects, in Australian study Small Study Links Surgery and Anesthesia With Alzheimer's Post-op changes in cerebral spinal fluid may indicate progression of brain disease, experts say Blood Tests May Hold Clues To Pace Of Alzheimer's Disease Progression A team of scientists say they may have found a way to predict how quickly patients with Alzheimer's diseasewill lose cognitive function by looking at ratios of two fatty compounds in their blood Alzheimer's Might Be Transmissible in Similar Way as Infectious Prion Diseases, Research Suggests The brain damage that characterizes Alzheimer's disease may originate in a form similar to that of infectious prion diseases such as bovine spongiform encephalopathy (mad cow) and Creutzfeldt-Jakob, according to newly published research Regional Cerebral Blood Flow Abnormalities Associated With Apathy and Depression in Alzheimer Disease The aim of this study was to identify brain areas related to apathy or depression in patients with Alzheimer disease Self-Rating of Health As Poor, Fair Ups Risk of Dementia Poor self-reported health also correlates with vascular dementia and Alzheimer's disease
Depression
Bipolar disorders Can Antidepressant Drugs Worsen The Long Term Course Of Depression? There is increasing awareness that, in some cases, long-term use of antidepressant drugs may enhance the biochemical vulnerability to depression and worsen its long-term outcome and symptomatic expression, decreasing both its likelihood of subsequent response to pharmacological treatment and the duration of symptom-free periods Impulsivity, aggression linked to suicide attempts in mood disorder patients Impulsive and aggressive traits are strongly correlated in mood disorder patients with a history of suicide attempts, but not in those without such a history Use of memantine for the treatment of dementia The term 'dementia' encompasses a number of neurodegenerative diseases of which Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the most common Reasons for alcohol consumption differ by mood state in BD patients
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Patients with bipolar disorder (BD) drink more alcohol when depressed or manic than when euthymic, and their reasons for drinking change according to mood state Life goals group therapy program benefits BD patients A life goals group therapy program for patients with bipolar disorder helps reduce hospitalization rates, increase mood stability, and prevent relapses
Dual Diagnosis
Risk of Death From Accidental Overdose Associated With Psychiatric and Substance Use Disorders Despite dramatic increases in the rate of fatal accidental overdose in recent years, risk factors for this outcome remain poorly understood, particularly in clinical populations Clinical Considerations for Long-acting Injectable Risperidone's Use on Cocaine Dependence and Dual Diagnosis The aim of this study was to evaluate the prognosis of patients with cocaine dependence and dual diagnosis when long-acting injectable risperidone is used in their treatment Protocols of Dual Diagnosis Intervention in Schizophrenia Objective: To review the existing literature on the psychopharmacological and psychotherapeutic treatment of patients with both schizophrenia and a substance use disorder
Eating Disorders
A fine-grained analysis of eating behavior in women with bulimia nervosa In the current study, we were interested in developing a typology of eating in patients with bulimia nervosa based on the size of the eating episode, whether the episode was followed by self-induced vomiting, and the degree of loss of control self-reported by participants Eating disorders and major depression: role of anger and personality This study aimed to evaluate comorbidity for MD in a large ED sample and both personality and anger as clinical characteristics of patients with ED and MD
Forensic Psychiatry
Child Abuse Homicide Offenders Convicted At Similar Rate To Adult Homicide Offenders According to a study child abuse homicide offenders and adult homicide offenders seem to be
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convicted at a similar rate Treatment terminable and interminable: Implications of the Mental Health Act 2007 in England and Wales for the treatment of borderline personality disorder
Learning Disabilities
Parents of Children With Down Syndrome Happy and Proud Also, vast majority of siblings express love, pride; individuals with Down syndrome are happy Promising Drug Treatment For Improving Language, Social Function In People With Autism Most drug therapy interventions for people with autism have targeted psychiatric problems, including aggression, anxiety and obsessive behavior Autistic Mice Act a Lot Like Human Patients: Geneticists Develop Promising Mouse Model for Testing New Autism Therapies UCLA scientists have created a mouse model for autism that opens a window into the biological mechanisms that underlie the disease and offers a promising way to test new treatment approaches Early Anesthesia Exposures Tied to Learning Disabilities Multiple exposures before age 2 does not increase need for individualized education programs Older Dads Can Pass on Gene Mutations That Lower Intellect Study suggests changes in chromosomes may account for some cases, especially in older fathers An update on the pharmacotherapy of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder in adults Adults with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder are more frequently presenting for diagnosis and treatment The Accuracy Of Autism Diagnosis In Children With Down Syndrome Validated By New Findings New findings from a 16-year study confirm that the Diagnostic and Statistic Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) can be used to accurately identify autism spectrum disorders in children with Down syndrome, according to research from Kennedy Krieger Institute
Nursing Research
Recovery from Serious Mental Illness: A Concept Analysis This paper examines the concept of recovery in the context of serious mental illness Substance Abuse Treatment for Women who are Under Correctional Supervision in the
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Community: A Systematic Review of Qualitative Findings This systematic review was conducted to more fully analyze qualitative research findings relating to community-based court-supervised substance abuse treatment for women and to make recommendations regarding treatment enhancement
Obsessive Compulsive Disorders
An exploration of economic reasoning in hoarding disorder patients Current models of hoarding disorder (HD) emphasize problems of decision-making Auditory novelty processing is enhanced in obsessive-compulsive disorder Cognitive models propose that anxiety disorders are associated with an attentional bias toward potentially threatening stimuli Prevalence and clinical characteristics of mental rituals in a longitudinal clinical sample of obsessive-compulsive disorder Obsessive-compulsive disorder is a chronic and debilitating anxiety disorder associated with significant impairment in quality of life and functioning
Occupational Therapy
Occupational Therapy in Vocational Rehabilitation of Adults with Mental Illness This publication presents a study that analyses the effectiveness of client-oriented Occupational Therapy methods in Austria concerning improvement of the occupational performance of persons with mental illness Weight loss intervention for people with serious mental illness: a randomized controlled trial of the RENEW program The study assessed phases one and two of a three-phase weight-loss program called RENEW-Recovering Energy Through Nutrition and Exercise for Weight Loss--among individuals with serious mental illness at four mental health centers
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
Topiramate Effective in Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Re-experiencing symptoms, avoidance/numbing symptoms improve significantly with topiramate
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Some Treatments Appear To Help Reduce Some Cases Of PTSD Symptoms In Trauma Survivors According to a study cognitive therapy, prolonged exposure therapy as well as delayed prolonged exposure therapy, seem to reduce the symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder in individuals who have recently experienced a traumatic event Mental health tests don't catch all troubled troops Mental health assessments given to all soldiers after deployment may miss many cases of depression and post-traumatic stress disorder A Shot of Cortisone Stops Traumatic Stress, Study Suggests New hope for preventing the development of PTSD has been uncovered -- and the key is a single dose of a common medication Prolonged Exposure, Cognitive Therapy Prevent Chronic PTSD Prolonged exposure, cognitive therapy, delayed PE, but not escitalopram, placebo prevent chronic PTSD
Psychology
Antisocial Personality Traits Predict Utilitarian Responses To Moral Dilemmas A study found that people who endorse actions consistent with an ethic of utilitarianism - the view that what is the morally right thing to do is whatever produces the best overall consequences - tend to possess psychopathic and Machiavellian personality traits There is no Such Thing as Attention Given that the core issues of attention research have been recognized for millenia, we do not know as much about attention as we should
Schizophrenia
Severe Schizophrenia Improves With Cognitive Therapy Cognitive therapy has dynamically improved the most neurologically impaired, poorly functioning schizophrenic patients Primary negative symptom status ‘unstable’ over time in FES patients Initial primary negative symptom status in patients with first-episode schizophrenia is not predictive of primary negative symptom status over time Brain memory finding may help schizophrenia research A variation in a part of the brain may explain why some people have a better memory of reality than others and could advance understanding of brain disorders like schizophrenia Schizophrenia patients show abnormal fiber geometry in the corpus callosum Patients with schizophrenia exhibit abnormal fiber geometry in the corpus callosum, which may indicate transcallosal misconnection
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Improving treatment adherence in patients with schizophrenia Nonadherence to antipsychotic medications is an enormous challenge for clinicians and patients in the treatment of schizophrenia Medication nonadherence increases rehospitalisation risk in schizophrenia patients A short duration of initial hospitalization and early nonadherence to antipsychotic medication after discharge are significant and modifiable risk factors for rehospitalisation in patients with schizophrenia or schizoaffective disorder
Social Work
Introducing the Mental Capacity Advocate (IMCA) Service and the Reform of Adult Safeguarding Procedures Contemporary welfare is closely linked to policies designed to foster individual responsibility and self-development The Extent and Correlates of the Utilisation of Empowerment Strategies: A Survey of Social Workers in the Field of Partner Violence Empowerment has been treated as an intervening goal in many areas of social work practices to strengthen clients so they could break through the status of disadvantage and, in turn, increase social functioning and quality of life
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