Health visitors in south Wales set to strike after NHS employer ignores job evaluation appeal
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Background Psychiatric advance directives (PADs) are written statements that allow people with mental illness to state their treatment preferen
Animals feature in many service users’ lives and can be significant factors in their wellbeing and recovery, but relationships with animals can also increas
The authors report on a service evaluation of blueSCI, a social inclusion and cultural wellbeing service in the north west of England.
Caring for service users who have a diagnosis of borderline personality disorder (BPD) can be stressful because they often present with challenging behaviou
Dedicated memory services have been recommended as a single point of referral for people with cognitive impairment for many years.
The close supervision centre (CSC) at Her Majesty’s Prison Wakefield is home to eight of the UK’s most challenging offenders, who are eligible for the excep
Nursing research has shown that taking care of the spiritual needs of service users is an essential part of holistic practice, and is significantly related
The average life expectancy of people with serious mental illness (SMI) is up to 25 years shorter than that of the general population.
Research about effective treatment for mental health service users with personality disorders points to the importance of trusting therapeutic relationships
After incidents of absconding and escape from a medium-secure hospital a review was undertaken.
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Throughout a project to research therapeutic relationships between women with anorexia and their care workers the author kept a reflexive account of the res
The relationship between self-efficacy and job satisfaction is multifaceted.
This study explores the benefits of shared-experience groups from a service user’s perspective, in a UK high-secure forensic mental health environment.
The very nature of working in conflict zones makes former soldiers vulnerable to symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). The culture of the military can also mean that personnel do not seek help and can endure symptoms for years.
This article describes an audit of national guidelines for cognitive behaviour therapy (CBT) for schizophrenia and other psychoses in a community mental health team.
Public health officials are beginning to recognise the significance of compulsive hoarding disorder. As clutter accumulates and obliterates living space, the world of the compulsive hoarder can become drab, dull and achromatic.
Mental health professionals are increasingly expected to deliver evidence-based psychological therapies for common mental health problems.
There are concerns that urgent treatment under section 62 of the Mental Health Act 1983 is being used increasingly because of delays in getting a second opinion. It is therefore of paramount importance that section 62 is used and recorded appropriately.
