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Mentall Heallth & Sociiall Care Current Awareness Bulllletiin Menta Hea th & Soc a Care Current Awareness Bu et n
No 299 No 299

h May 16ttth 2011 May 16 h 2011

The Mental Health & Social Care Current Awareness Bulletin is produced at Essex Public Health Resource Unit Library
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News from all corners of the world

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Regional News

Suffolk: Nine killings by people known to county’s mental health services SUFFOLK’S mental health trust has released a shocking report of its failings following nine killings in less than two years.

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National News

Mental illness 'top reason to claim incapacity benefit' Mental health problems have overtaken musculoskeletal disorders such as back pain as the main reason for incapacity benefit claims, researchers have said Care Quality Commission Launches Consultation On Excellence In Social Care, UK The Care Quality Commission (CQC) today announces the start of a consultation on a new excellence award for adult social care services in England Single social work college likely to be agreed The two colleges of social work expect to reach an understanding and come together as one single organisation, it has been confirmed Survey Shows Doctors Believe NICE-Recommended Alzheimer's Disease Treatments Could Reduce Antipsychotics Scripts Nine out of ten (89%) doctors caring for patients with Alzheimer's disease believe NICE guidance, will improve patient care and almost two thirds (63%) think recommended treatments could reduce the need for antipsychotic prescribing, a key Government goal Children's early progress in foster placements needs sustaining Fostered children make the most significant progress during the first nine months of their placement, according to research
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Majority of UK families at risk of crisis Over 80% of families in the UK are at risk of crisis, according to the charity 4Children Call to revamp 'outdated and flawed' social care laws A major revamp of adult social care law in England and Wales is needed to ensure fairer access to services, the Law Commission says England's North-South adult social care divide There is a North-South divide in spending on social care in England following the government's Spending Review, BBC research suggests

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International News

Post-Traumatic Growth In Aftermath Of Queensland Disasters, Australia At least one-quarter of people affected by Australia's natural disasters at the start of this year will be experiencing "post-traumatic growth" "Living With Schizophrenia" Documentary Shines Spotlight On People With Schizophrenia: A Misunderstood And Stigmatized Illness Janssen Inc., proudly announces the world premiere of "Living with Schizophrenia: A Call for Hope and Recovery," a half-hour documentary film that tells the story of three people who are living meaningful lives with schizophrenia, a chronic and potentially disabling brain disorder Primary Care Doctors Are Critical To Detecting Mental Illness In Children The National Alliance on Mental Illness has released a survey on family experiences with primary care doctors in treating children and adolescents living with serious mental illnessexposing a broad gap between family needs and practitioner knowledge and resources

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RESEARCH RESEARCH

Addictions
Substance abuse, alcoholism, Parental Alcoholism Carries Risk for Offspring to Develop the Same, Population-Based Study Confirms Researchers know that there is a strong link between parental alcohol use disorders and the risk for developing an AUD among their offspring Impact of Adolescent Alcohol and Drug Use on Neuropsychological Functioning in Young Adulthood: 10-Year Outcomes Because of ongoing neuromaturation, youth with chronic alcohol/substance use disorders are at risk for cognitive decrements during young adulthood

Anxiety Disorders

A review of technology-assisted self-help and minimal contact therapies for anxiety and depression: Is human contact necessary for therapeutic efficacy? Technology-based self-help and minimal contact therapies have been proposed as effective and low-cost interventions for anxiety and mood disorders Differences between trait fear and trait anxiety: Implications for psychopathology Fear and anxiety are poorly delineated in much of the clinical and research literatures. Although some theorists and researchers have posited explanations for how trait fear and trait anxiety differ, many others conceptualize the constructs as largely or entirely interchangeable Validity of the GAD-7 scale as an outcome measure of disability in patients with generalized anxiety disorders in primary care random sample of 212 subjects was recruited in primary care clinics; 50% diagnosed with generalized anxiety disorder by DSM-IV criteria and 50% concurrent matched controls

Dementia
Alzheimer’s Efficacy and Tolerability of Antidepressants in the Treatment of Behavioral and Psychological Symptoms of Dementia, A Literature Review of Evidence The objective of this review is to summarize the current data on the use of antidepressants in the treatment of behavioral and psychological symptoms of dementia and to determine whether these medications can be recommended for routine clinical use
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Guiding Research and Practice: A Conceptual Model for Aerobic Exercise Training in Alzheimer’s Disease Older adults with Alzheimer’s disease showed reduced physical activity and cognitive changes that are probably amenable to aerobic exercise training.

Depression
Bipolar disorders Children of Bipolar Parents Are Overly Sensitive to Stress Hormone Cortisol, Study Finds Children whose mother or father is affected by bipolar disorder may need to keep their stress levels in check Successful Depression Treatment Of Mothers Has Long-Term Effects On Offspring Children whose mothers are successfully treated for depression show progressive and marked improvement in their own behaviors even a year after their mothers discontinue treatment Eye movement study supports cerebellar involvement in bipolar disorder Results from a US study of smooth pursuit eye movements in bipolar disorder patients provide further evidence for cerebellar involvement in the mood disorder Clinical and Psychosocial Predictors of Suicide Attempts and Nonsuicidal Self-Injury in the Adolescent Depression Antidepressants and Psychotherapy Trial (ADAPT) The authors assessed whether clinical and psychosocial factors in depressed adolescents at baseline predict suicide attempts and nonsuicidal self-injury over 28 weeks of follow-up QoL reduced in bipolar disorder patients with history of suicide attempts Bipolar disorder patients with a history of suicide attempts have poorer quality of life than bipolar disorder patients without such a history Affective processing impaired in stable bipolar I disorder Patients with bipolar I disorder show impairments in affective processing with a marked bias toward favoring information with a negative valence, study results show

Dual Diagnosis

Internalizing disorders and substance use disorders in youth: Comorbidity, risk, temporal order, and implications for intervention This review examines the empirical literature on the relationship between internalizing disorders and substance use disorders (SUDs) in youth in terms of (a) comorbidity rates, (b) risk relationships, (c) temporal sequencing, and (d) implications for intervention

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Eating Disorders

A systematic review and meta-analysis of cognitive bias to food stimuli in people with disordered eating behaviour Maladaptive cognitions about food, weight and shape bias attention, memory and judgment and may be linked to disordered eating behaviour Eating disorders and quality of life: A review of the literature Following recent scientific interest in the quality of life of individuals with eating disorders, this paper aims to provide a summary of the relevant evidence

Forensic Psychiatry

A Comparison of Individual-Level and Community-Level Predictors of Marijuana and Cocaine Use among a Sample of Newly Arrested Juvenile Offenders Variations in drug use have been found across individual-level factors and community characteristics, and by type of drug used

Learning Disabilities

Approach To Autism May Increase Autism Spectrum Disorder Prevalence Estimates In Children Worldwide Autism may be more common worldwide than previously thought, according to researchers Combination of ADHD and Poor Emotional Control Runs in Families, Study Suggests subgroup of adults with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder also exhibit excessive emotional reactions to everyday occurrences, and this combination of ADHD and emotional reactivity appears to run in families Melatonin in children with autistic spectrum disorders: recent and practical data Over the last 20 years, melatonin, a pineal hormone synthesized from serotonin, has been implicated in various studies on the autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and altered melatonin levels were detected in subgroups of subjects with ASD Fever During Pregnancy, Diabetes and Obesity May Raise Autism Risk But study finds births by C-section didn't seem to have any impact Children With ADHD And Co-Existing Psychiatric Disorders Report Impaired Quality Of Life Pediatric patient self-reported Health-Related Quality of Life in Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder continues to be under studied, most notably in pediatric patients with ADHD and coexisting psychiatric disorders
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Obsessive Compulsive Disorders

Distinguishing Between Major Depressive Disorder and Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder in Children by Measuring Regional Cortical Thickness Cortical abnormalities have been noted in previous studies of major depressive disorder Deep brain stimulation for Gilles de la Tourette syndrome: A case series targeting subregions of the globus pallidus internus Deep brain stimulation remains an experimental treatment for patients with Gilles de la Tourette syndrome White Matter Changes in OCD Revealed by Diffusion Tensor Imaging The aim of this study was to investigate white matter abnormalities in obsessive-compulsive disorder and its relationship to severity of obsessive-compulsive symptoms

Occupational Therapy

Occupational Participation of Homeless People The purpose of the study was to investigate the occupational participation of homeless people regarding their roles, habits, and contexts

Post Traumatic Stress Disorder

Requiring both avoidance and emotional numbing in DSM-V PTSD: Will it help?. The proposed DSM-V criteria for posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) specifically require both active avoidance and emotional numbing symptoms for a diagnosis Posttraumatic stress disorder in older adults: an overview of characteristics and treatment approaches Posttraumatic stress disorder is a common and disabling condition following a traumatic event Affect intensity and lability: the role of posttraumatic stress disorder symptoms in borderline personality disorder Emotion dysregulation is likely a core psychological process underlying the heterogeneity of presentations in borderline personality disorder and is associated with BPD symptom severity

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Psychology

Mood Swings Can Be Cured With Psychotherapy In the current issue of Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics investigators published a randomized controlled trial on psychotherapeutic treatment of cyclothymic disorder, a disturbance that is characterized by rapid alternation of mood swings Natural course of recurrent psychological distress in adulthood The course of major depressive disorder is often characterized by progressing chronicity, but whether this applies to the course of self-reported psychological distress remains unclear

Schizophrenia

Glutamatergic dysfunction in schizophrenia supported Study results support a role for altered glutamatergic neurotransmission in the pathophysiology of schizophrenia
A Meta-Analysis of Cognitive Remediation for Schizophrenia: Methodology and Effect Sizes Cognitive remediation therapy for schizophrenia was developed to treat cognitive problems that affect functioning, but the treatment effects may depend on the type of trial methodology adopted

Schizophrenia patients have pro-/anti-inflammatory prostaglandin imbalance Patients with schizophrenia have higher plasma levels of pro-inflammatory and lower plasma levels of anti-inflammatory prostaglandins than mentally healthy individuals Brain Development Goes Off Track As Vulnerable Individuals Develop Schizophrenia Two new research studies published in Biological Psychiatry point to progressive abnormalities in brain development that emerge as vulnerable individuals develop schizophrenia Link between schizophrenia and pre-morbid IQ questioned Intellectual functioning in adolescence and early adulthood does not appear to have an influence on risk for subsequently developing schizophrenia, results of a longitudinal study show

Social Work

Still doing what we do: Defining social work in the 21st century Members of the Aotearoa New Zealand Association of Social Workers (ANZASW) were asked to provide their definition of social work Neglectful And Controlling Parents Linked To Mental Health Problems In Children, UK Children's perception of how they are parented is a major predictor of whether they will develop mental health problems as teenager
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FURTHER CONTENT FURTHER CONTENT
Books, Conferences, Websites & Journal Tocs

NEW PUBLICATIONS
Books and reports hot of the press Click the title to connect to the website entry The Munro Review of Child Protection: Final report - A child-centred system DoE Adult Social Care Personality and Individual Differences What Do I Say? The Therapist's Guide to Answering Client Questions Working With Children and Teenagers Using Solution Focused Approaches: Enabling Children to Overcome Challenges and Achieve Their Potential Mental Health and Care Homes Self-harm and Violence: Towards Best Practice in Managing Risk in Mental Health Services Nonverbal Learning Disabilities in Children: Bridging the Gap Between Science and Practice Depression in Adolescent Girls: Science and Prevention The Art of Art Therapy: What Every Art Therapist Needs to Know: 2nd Revised edition Foundations of Play Therapy: 2nd Revised edition

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CONFERENCES
Follow the link to a list, new conferences in bold CONFERENCES

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WEBSITES
Follow the link below to a list of useful websites USEFUL WEBSITES

JOURNAL TOC PAGES
New links in bold Follow the link below to a list of Journal TOC pages JOURNAL TOCs

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DISCLAIMER
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