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Mentall Heallth & Sociiall Care Current Awareness Bulllletiin Menta Hea th & Soc a Care Current Awareness Bu et n
No 302 No 302
June 13tth 2011 June 13 h 2011

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

Department of Health

Common core principles for supporting people with dementia: a guide to training the social care and health workforce

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Regional News

Norfolk and Suffolk mental health merger delay Norfolk and Waveney Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust had planned to merge with its Suffolk counterpart on July 1

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National News

Hospitals to face dementia care scrutiny The Scottish government has vowed to improve hospital care for dementia patients by increasing scrutiny, in its first key announcement on older people's care since the country's election 'Chemical cosh' dementia drug prescriptions concern More than 50 health and social care organisations are calling for fresh action to cut the prescription of "chemical cosh" drugs Autistic man 'let down' by council A social services boss has apologised after a High Court judge ruled that a local authority unlawfully detained a 21-year-old autistic man by keeping him in a care unit for nearly a year College Comments On Attitudes To Mental Illness Survey, UK Commenting on the NHS Information Centre's Attitudes to Mental Illness 2011 survey report, Dr Peter Byrne, Director of Public Education at the Royal College of Psychiatrists, said: Research questions viability of govt plans for mentally ill prisoners The government's plans to divert more prisoners with mental illnesses out of the criminal justice system and into mental health services are unlikely to work, experts say
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Schizophrenia (update): review proposal consultation NICE: A review is being undertaken to decide whether CG82 should be updated Dementia Community Roadshow Provides Lifeline To 100,000 Families On 14 June Alzheimer's Society, Alzheimer Scotland and Tesco will launch the UK's first ever Dementia Community Roadshow Allen: National Budget should be changed to account for early intervention Next year's Budget must include money designated to early intervention in children's services, according to the second instalment of Graham Allen's report on early intervention, due to be published later this month

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International News

Treatment for Abuse of Anti-Anxiety Drugs Tripled Over 10 Years Admissions for treatment of benzodiazepine abuse nearly tripled in the United States between 1998 and 2008, while overall admissions for substance abuse rose only 11 percent, according to a government study

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RESEARCH RESEARCH

Huge Global Burden Of Neuropsychiatric Disorders among 10 To 24 Year-Olds Unipolar depression, schizophrenia, bipolar disorder and alcohol use are among the neuropsychiatric disorders that represent 45% of the disease burden among teenagers and young adults worldwide Link Between Childhood Trauma And Higher Rates Of Mental Health Problems New research has shown that children's risk for learning and behavior problems and obesity rises in correlation to their level of trauma exposure

Addictions
Substance abuse, alcoholism, Motivation to change and pathological gambling: Analysis of the relationship with clinical and psychopathological variables The present study analyses the internal factor structure of the University of Rhode Island Change Assessment (URICA) Scale in pathological gambling The Vicious Circle of Perceived Stigmatization, Depressiveness, Anxiety, and Low Quality of Life in Substituted Heroin Addicts. Perceived stigmatization of drug addicts may interact with negative mood states and thus may contribute to the maintenance of addictive behavior

Anxiety Disorders

Face value: Eye movements and the evaluation of facial crowds in social anxiety Scientific evidence is equivocal on whether Social Anxiety Disorder is characterized by a biased negative evaluation of (grouped) facial expressions, even though it is assumed that such a bias plays a crucial role in the maintenance of the disorder Reliability and validity of DSM-IV generalized anxiety disorder features The reliability of generalized anxiety disorder features has been shown to be moderate, based on research utilizing the Anxiety Disorders Interview Schedule for DSM-IV (ADIS-IV), a semistructured diagnostic interview Does engagement with exposure yield better outcomes? Components of presence as a predictor of treatment response for virtual reality exposure therapy for social phobia Virtual reality exposure has been shown to be effective for treating a variety of anxiety disorders, including social phobia

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Comparison of anxiety-related traits between generalized and nongeneralized subtypes of social anxiety disorder This study aimed to investigate the possible difference in anxiety-related traits between the generalized and nongeneralized subtypes of social anxiety disorder

Dementia
Alzheimer’s

An Exploratory Study on Facial Emotion Recognition Capacity in Beginning Alzheimer's Disease It was the aim of this study to investigate facial emotion recognition in the elderly with cognitive impairment The effects of verbal reaction time in Alzheimer's disease Verbal fluency deteriorates with normal aging, but is much more severe in Alzheimer's Disease Physical activity attenuates neuropsychiatric disturbances and caregiver burden in patients with dementia A significant benefit from physical activity has recently been described in some patients who suffer from neurodegenerative diseases Clinical features and multidisciplinary approaches to dementia care Dementia is a clinical syndrome of widespread progressive deterioration of cognitive abilities and normal daily functioning

Depression
Bipolar disorders BD I patients and their relatives show maladaptive emotion regulation strategies Patients with bipolar I disorder (BD I) and their unaffected relatives exhibit more frequent use of maladaptive emotion regulation strategies compared with mentally healthy individuals without such a family history High Amounts Of The Hormone Leptin Are Linked To Decreased Depression Women who have higher levels of the appetite-controlling hormone leptin have fewer symptoms of depression, and this apparent inverse relationship is not related to body mass index A Primary Care Focus on the Treatment of Patients With Major Depressive Disorder Major depressive disorder (MDD) is a common psychiatric illness affecting nearly 20% of adults in the United States at least once during their lifetime Mood state linked to differences in gray matter density in BD patients Results from a preliminary US study suggest that patients with bipolar disorder (BD) display differences in gray matter density according to mood state

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Postnatal Depression in First-Time Mothers: Prevalence and Relationships Between Functional and Structural Social Support at 6 and 12 Weeks Postpartum Postnatal depression (PND) is a significant public health issue, with variable prevalence and a dearth of research on risk and protective factors Cholesterol levels linked to impulsivity in patients with mood symptoms Low cholesterol levels are associated with an increased risk for attentional impulsivity in patients with mood symptoms

Dual Diagnosis

Persistent cannabis use linked to poor outcomes in teens with FEP Persistent cannabis use (CU) is associated with poor outcomes in adolescents with first-episode psychosis (FEP), study results show Cognitive Therapy Helps Depressed Drug Abusers Treating mood disorder key to helping addicts stay off drugs, researchers say Managing borderline personality disorder and substance use - an integrated approach Although substance use is a common feature of borderline personality disorder, regular use is associated with greater levels of psychosocial impairment, psychopathology, self harm and suicidal behaviour and leads to poorer treatment outcomes

Eating Disorders

SLaM Finds Link Between OCD And Eating Disorders In Teenagers A research collaboration has shown that childhood obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) is a risk factor for developing an eating disorder during adolescence Overcoming the urge to splurge: Influencing eating behavior by manipulating inhibitory control When inhibitory control is lacking, people are more prone to indulge in high calorie food An experimental exploration of behavioral and cognitive–emotional aspects of intolerance of uncertainty in eating disorder patients Intolerance of uncertainty (IU) is an important concept in eating disorders. Cognitive, emotional, and behavioral features of IU amongst individuals with and without ED were investigated

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Forensic Psychiatry

Plans For Mentally Ill Prisoners In The UK Are Unrealistic Government plans to divert more mentally ill people out of the criminal justice system and into mental health services are unlikely to be achieved, according to new research Schizophrenia and Crime: How Predictable Are Charges, Convictions and Violence? The schizophrenia-crime relationship was studied in 151 research participants meeting DSM-IV criteria for schizophrenia or schizoaffective disorder and with histories positive or negative for criminal charges, convictions and offences involving violence

Learning Disabilities

Research Reveals Effectiveness of Seizure Treatments for Children With Autism Physicians will have a better guide for more effectively managing treatment of children experiencing seizures related to autism with the results of a study
Self-injury and other challenging behaviour at intervention and ten years on: a case study Four aspects of Tom's story are discussed in the light of the Mansell Report

Health inequalities and people with learning disabilities in the UK No abstract available: see reference Brain Imaging Study Of Preschoolers With ADHD Detects Brain Differences Linked To Symptoms In a study researchers found differences in the brain development of preschool children with symptoms of Attention-deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder Fragile X Protein Acts as Toggle Switch in Brain Cells New research shows how the protein missing in fragile X syndrome -- the most common inherited form of intellectual disability -- acts as a molecular toggle switch in brain cells

Obsessive Compulsive Disorders
The involvement of distinct neural systems in patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder with autogenous and reactive obsessions While disturbed energy metabolism in ACC might reflect a common pathology in patients with OCD regardless of symptom dimension, alterations in mesiotemporal lobe are more likely for autogenous obsessions SLaM Finds Link Between OCD And Eating Disorders In Teenagers A research collaboration has shown that childhood obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) is a risk factor for developing an eating disorder during adolescence
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Longitudinal aspects of obsessive compulsive cognitions in a non-clinical sample: A five-year follow-up study The cognitive behavioural models of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) have stressed the role of cognitions, not only in aetiology but also in maintenance of the disorder

Occupational Therapy

Effectiveness of Activity-Based Group Work in Community Mental Health: A Systematic Review Activity-based group work is widely used by occupational therapists in mental health settings Randomized Controlled Pilot Study of an Occupational Time-Use Intervention for People With Serious Mental Illness The study assessed the efficacy and clinical utility of a new occupational time-use intervention, Action Over Inertia, designed to improve occupational balance and engagement among community-dwelling people with serious mental illness

Post Traumatic Stress Disorder

For Happily Married Male Soldiers, Letters From Home May Help Prevent Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder A new study finds that for active-duty male soldiers in the U.S. Army who are happily married, communicating frequently with one's spouse through letters and emails during deployment may protect against the development of posttraumatic stress disorder symptoms after returning home More Men With Migraine Suffer from PTSD Than Women, Study Finds A recently published paper highlights that while the risk of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is more common in those with migraine than those without migraine irrespective of sex, the risk is greater in male migraineurs than female migraineurs Time, before, and after time: Temporal self and social appraisals in posttraumatic stress disorder In the aftermath of a traumatic event, individuals may engage in a series of comparisons in which they appraise their current functioning in relation to how they functioned prior to the traumatic event, as well as how they anticipate functioning in the future

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Psychology

Boys Who Bully May Grow Up to Be Abusive Men Study suggests but doesn't prove link to adult domestic violence Common Regrets Can Help Motivate Us While too many regrets can interfere with life and mental health, new research suggests some remorse can help us improve our current situation

Schizophrenia

Exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses of the Multidimensional Scale of Perceived Social Support in patients with schizophrenia Social support promotes community adaptation of patients with mental illness by facilitating coping and competence Depression symptoms common in schizophrenia patients Symptoms of depression are common in patients with stable schizophrenia who have not been previously been diagnosed with the mood condition Schizophrenia and Crime: How Predictable Are Charges, Convictions and Violence? The schizophrenia-crime relationship was studied in 151 research participants meeting DSM-IV criteria for schizophrenia or schizoaffective disorder and with histories positive or negative for criminal charges, convictions and offences involving violence Oral Health ‘poor’ in schizophrenia patients Patients with schizophrenia have significantly worse oral health than individuals without the mental health disorder Neurological soft signs linked to brain structure alterations in schizophrenia Structural alterations in the cerebello-thalamo-prefrontal network are associated with neurological soft signs in patients with schizophrenia Diagnostic shift common after FEP Around a fifth of patients who have suffered a first episode of psychosis have their diagnosis changed at the time of recurrence

Social Work

Social Work Practice and Intellectual Disability. Working to Support Change No abstract available: see reference

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Determinants of Substance Abuse in a Population of Children and Adolescents Involved with the Child Welfare System Substance abuse is an important health issue facing children involved with child welfare, but little is known about the associated factors

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Books, Conferences, Websites & Journal Tocs

NEW PUBLICATIONS
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Improving value for money in adult social care Audit Commission Attitudes to Mental Illness - 2011 survey report NHS ICI Social Work: An Introduction to Contemporary Practice: 2nd Revised edition The Psychiatry of Palliative Medicine: The Dying Mind: 2nd Revised edition Self-harm and Violence: Towards Best Practice in Managing Risk in Mental Health Services Disorders of Personality: Introducing a DSM/ICD Spectrum from Normal to Abnormal: 3rd Revised edition A Loving Approach to Dementia Care: Making Meaningful Connections with the Person Who Has Alzheimer's Disease or Other Dementia or Memory Loss Generalized Anxiety Disorders Handbook of Mentalizing in Mental Health Practice Guide to Early Psychological Evaluation: Adults

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CONFERENCES
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