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The Mental Health & Social Care Current Awareness Bulletin is produced at
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News from all corners of
the world

Department of Health

Mental Health Act 1983 - proposed amendments in the Health and Social Care Bill 2011

Spiritual Care at the End of Life: a systematic review of the literature

Birmingham Alcohol, Drugs, Gambling and Addiction Research

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National News

Council must review up to 400 child protection cases

Gloucestershire Council must review nearly 400 child protection cases following an Ofsted
inspection

Children's social workers want return of patch-based teams

Three quarters of social workers prefer to work in small areas rather than out of centralised
offices

Employers urged to tackle workplace depression

Business leaders have been called upon to conquer the 'shame, embarrassment and fear'
associated with depression in the workplace

Councils press on with home care charges increase

Councils are pushing ahead with plans to increase adult care charges by up to hundreds of
pounds a week, sparking concern that consultations have proved tokenistic

Dementia home support an absolute travesty – charity

The home support given to people with dementia and their carers is an "absolute travesty", a
charity says.

Deep brain stimulation surgery 'first' for depression

A medical team at Frenchay Hospital in Bristol is pioneering a new form of surgery to treat long
term depression

NICE Updates Guidance On Generalised Anxiety Disorder

NICE has published an update to its recommendations on the management of anxiety, originally
published in December 2004

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 NICE Recommends Aripiprazole For Schizophrenia In Young People
In final guidance, NICE has recommended aripiprazole as an option for the treatment of
schizophrenia in people aged 15 to 17 years who are intolerant of risperidone, or for whom
risperidone is contraindicated, or whose schizophrenia has not been adequately controlled with
risperidone

Sector leaders condemn social work college split

GSCC and directors critical of BASW move. Employers' bodies and the General Social Care
Council have refused to give their support to the British Association of Social Workers' plans for
a college of social work amid fears the development of two colleges will split the profession

Depression 'common' among people with arthritis

Millions of people with debilitating arthritis are affected so badly by their pain that they also
suffer from depression, a survey has found

Insomnia damages relationships, according to study

Lack of sleep needs to be treated as a major health issue, according to a report published by
the Mental Health Foundation

Children in care far from home 'at risk'

Charities are warning that thousands of children placed in care far from home are more
vulnerable to criminality, drug abuse and sexual exploitation

Managers are heavier drinkers than manual workers

People in managerial jobs drink more than their counterparts in manual jobs, official statistics
show.

New "Generation Alzheimer's" Report Calls Alzheimer's Defining Disease Of The Baby
Boomers
Starting this year, more than 10,000 baby boomers a day will turn 65

Social workers need more training in talking about death

Councils could save money from end-of-life care packages by giving social workers more
training in talking to people nearing death, a study reveals

Hate crime campaign to launch during Learning Disability Week

Mencap to launch new campaign in Learning Disability Week 2011

Think Local, Act Personal – partnership agreement confirmed as the future direction of
social care
Think Local, Act Personal – the sector-wide statement of intent that makes the link between the
government’s new vision for social care and Putting People First - has now been finalised as
the way forward for personalisation and community-based support

New Draft Guidance Calls For Improvements To NHS Autism Services For Under-18s
The NHS needs to improve how it diagnoses autism in children and teenagers if it is to cope
with the increasing demand on services, says new draft guidance

DrugScope Responds To New NHS Drug Statistics, UK

The charity DrugScope, the UK's leading independent centre of expertise on drugs and drug
use, has responded to today's publication of 'Statistics on Drug Misuse: England, 2010'

Regulator looks to professionalise care workers

The Health Professions Council is planning to professionalise sections of the social care
workforce in England with a national registration scheme for care staff

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International News

FDA Approves Viibryd To Treat Major Depressive Disorder

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved Viibryd tablets (vilazodone hydrochloride) to
treat major depressive disorder in adults

Number of calls to mental health line increase

Calls for help to a mental health phone line almost doubled over the last year as the economic
crisis impacted on people's lives

Scientific Review Showing ECT To Be Ineffective And Unsafe Submitted To FDA On Eve
Of Its ECT Hearings
For decades the FDA has allowed electroconvulsive therapy to be used without requiring any
proof of safety or efficacy

Special report: In Russia, a glut of heroin and denial

In her one-room flat, as a small shelf of porcelain cats looks on and the smell of mold hangs in
the air, Zoya pulls down the left shoulder of her black blouse and readies herself for her next hit

UNC Co-Leads Study To Identify Risks For Dementia, Cognitive Decline

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill researchers are co-leading a national study to
examine whether middle-aged people's physical health influences their risk of dementia later in
life

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Obesity Linked To Poorer Mental Health: New Study, Australia

A new Australian study has found middle-aged Australians carrying excess weight are more
likely to be anxious and depressed than their healthy weight counterparts

Mental health in children with severe hearing impairment

Deafness does not in itself cause emotional/ behavioural or cognitive problems or psychiatric
disorders

Relationships between Techniques and Outcomes for Borderline Personality Disorder

Although a number of psychotherapeutic modalities for borderline personality disorder have
empirical support, it is unclear what aspects of treatment are responsible for improvement

Promoting School-Based Mental Health: Perspectives From School Practitioners

Research has clearly identified the negative impact that untreated mental health problems can
have on students' school success

Abortion Typically Doesn't Harm Mental Health: Study

Research included all women having abortions in Denmark from 1995 through 2007

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Substance abuse, alcoholism,

Alcohol problems in young adults transitioning from adolescence to adulthood: The

association with race and gender
Race and gender may be important considerations for recognizing alcohol related problems in
Black and White young adults

Contextual profiles of young adult ecstasy users: A multisite study

These analyses assess contextual profiles of 612 young adult ecstasy users, 18–30 years of
age

The Key To Tackling Substance Abuse And Addiction Among Nurses Is Support Not
Punishment
As many as ten to 20 per cent of nurses and nursing students may have substance abuse and
addiction problems, but the key to tackling this difficult issue - and protecting public safety - is
support and treatment, not punishment

Computerized Cognitive Remediation Treatment for Substance Abuse Disorders

The report by Bickel et al. () in this issue of Biological Psychiatry, “Remember the Future:
Working Memory Training Decreases Delay Discounting Among Stimulant Addicts,” provides a
compelling example of the potential value of identifying neurocognitive aspects of psychiatric
disorders and then targeting those neurocognitive functions for treatment

Anxiety Disorders

Stepped Care Cognitive Behavioural Therapy for Children with Anxiety Disorders: A New
Treatment Approach
The current nonrandomized clinical trial explored changes over time in children with an anxiety
disorder during stepped care, manual-based cognitive behaviour therapy

Concordance Between Measures of Anxiety and Physiological Arousal Following

Treatment of Panic Disorder in Adolescence
This study examined the concordance (or synchrony/desynchrony) between adolescents' self-
reports of anxiety and physiological measures of arousal (heart rate) both prior to and after
treatment for panic disorder

Aripiprazole: A clinical review of its use for the treatment of anxiety disorders and
anxiety as a comorbidity in mental illness
Although anxiety disorders are common, optimal treatment is elusive

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Alzheimer’s

Elderly With Dementia, Delirium Confused by ER Visits: Study

Often unlikely to understand why they're at hospital or follow discharge instructions

A systematic review of stress in staff caring for people with dementia living in 24-hour
care settings
Family carers of people with dementia are at risk of psychological morbidity, and it is suggested
that this may also be the case in paid carers as caring for people with dementia can be
emotionally and physically demanding

A validated risk score to estimate mortality risk in patients with dementia and
pneumonia: barriers to clinical impact
The clinical impact of risk score use in end-of-life settings is unknown, with reports limited to
technical properties

Elopement among community-dwelling older adults with dementia

Adverse consequences following elopement among older people with dementia have been
widely reported but the phenomenon of elopement has been under-researched

Can Estrogen Protect Against Alzheimer's Disease?

An influential article in the journal provided one of the first comprehensive reviews of how
estrogen potentially can protect against Alzheimer's disease and other neurological disorders

Depression
Bipolar disorders

Similar gray matter deficits in bipolar and schizophrenia

Patients with psychotic bipolar mania and those with paranoid schizophrenia have similar
clusters of gray matter deficits in certain brain areas, researchers have found

Parental Divorce Linked to Suicidal Thoughts

Adult children of divorce are more likely to have seriously considered suicide than their peers
from intact families

Personality traits linked to depressive morbidity in BD I patients

Certain personality traits are associated with depressive morbidity in patients with bipolar I
disorder (BD I) researchers have found

Interpersonal psychotherapy for depression

Interpersonal psychotherapy is an evidence-based therapy, originally developed to treat major
depression

Metabolic syndrome linked to hyperhomocysteinemia in psychosis patients

The metabolic syndrome is significantly associated with hyperhomocysteinemia in patients with
bipolar disorder (BD), as well as those with schizophrenia

Unhealthy eating leads to increased depression

Researchers demonstrated that the ingestion of trans-fats and saturated fats increase the risk of

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Hypomania common in young adults

Hypomania affects around one-fifth of young adults, with "bright-side" more common than "dark-
side" hypomania, results from a study of students suggest

Dual Diagnosis

A systematic review of the impact of brief interventions on substance use and co-morbid
physical and mental health conditions
The study summarises the relevant published evidence on the health and behavioural impact of
brief interventions in individuals with recognised co-morbidity

Psychological treatments for comorbidity across the life course

The co-occurrence of substance use and mental illness (dual diagnosis) is a common clinical
problem and one that is often not adequately addressed therapeutically

The Lived Experience of Adults with Bipolar Disorder and Comorbid Substance Use
Disorder
There is a high incidence of comorbid substance use in the bipolar population

Eating Disorders

Low self-esteem in women with eating disorders and alcohol abuse as a psycho-social
factor to be included in their psychotherapeutic approach
Authors have analyzed the psychosocial peculiarities of the women from Romania who are
affected by eating disorders and alcohol excessive consumption, and studied the manner of the
link between these diseases and the psychosexual

Stability of long-term outcome in bulimia nervosa: a 3-year follow-up

We report on the 3-year course and outcome of patients with bulimia nervosa (BN), initially
treated in an inpatient or day clinic setting

Learning Disabilities

Psychopharmacology in children with intellectual disability

Children and adolescents with intellectual disability have high rates of psychiatric morbidity, the
most common presentation being behavioural difficulties, especially in the context of autism

Measuring Parental Treatment Adherence in a Multimodal Treatment Program for

Children with ADHD: A Preliminary Investigation
This study evaluated the clinical significance of measuring between session parental adherence
on child and parent outcomes for 51 children (age 4 to 8.5 years) with attention

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Obsessive Compulsive
Disorders

How Does Thought-Action Fusion Relate to Responsibility Attitudes and Thought

Suppression to Aggravate the Obsessive-Compulsive Symptoms?
Comprehensive cognitive theories of obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) propose that clinical
obsessions and compulsions arise from specific sorts of dysfunctional beliefs and appraisals,
such as inflated sense of responsibility, thought-action fusion, and thought suppression

Psychosocial impact of obsessive-compulsive disorder on patients and their caregivers:

a comparative study with depressive disorder
Little empirical research has been done to assess the impact of obsessive-compulsive disorder
(OCD) on patients and their caregivers

Occupational Therapy

The routines and rituals of families of typically developing children compared with
families of children with autism spectrum disorder: an exploratory study
The construction of routines and rituals plays a significant role in the organisation of daily
activities and the health and wellbeing of families

Participation when using cognitive assistive devices – from the perspective of people
with intellectual disabilities
The aim of the study was to describe how people with intellectual disabilities experienced their
participation in everyday activities when using cognitive assistive devices

Post Traumatic
Stress Disorder

The Impact of Caregiver Distress on the Longitudinal Development of Child Acute Post-
traumatic Stress Disorder Symptoms in Pediatric Injury Victims
The present study prospectively examined the development of child PTSD symptoms (PTSS)
and the impact of caregiver PTSS on child PTSS following injury

Basic emotion profiles in healthy, chronic pain, depressed and PTSD individuals
This study compares self-reports of five basic emotions across four samples: healthy, chronic
pain, depressed and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and investigates the extent to
which basic emotion reports discriminate between individuals in healthy or clinical groups

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Apologies Aren't as Good as People Imagine They'll Be

We all want an apology when someone does us wrong

People Aren't Born Afraid of Spiders and Snakes: Fear Is Quickly Learned During Infancy
A new paper reviews research with infants and toddlers and finds that we aren't born afraid of
spiders and snakes, but we can learn these fears very quickly

Adolescent Brains Over-Process Rewards, Suggesting Root Of Risky Behavior,

Psychological Disorders
Researchers have recorded neuron activity in adolescent rat brains that could reveal the
biological root of the teenage propensity to consider rewards over consequences and explain
why adolescents are more vulnerable to drug addiction, behavioral disorders, and other
psychological ills

Schizophrenia

Similar gray matter deficits in bipolar and schizophrenia

Patients with psychotic bipolar mania and those with paranoid schizophrenia have similar
clusters of gray matter deficits in certain brain areas, researchers have found

Testosterone reduced in boys with prodromal psychosis symptoms

Results from a Dutch study suggest that boys with prodromal symptoms of psychosis have
reduced levels of testosterone

Why Older People Are Generally Less Astute Drivers And How The Answer Could Help
Us Understand Schizophrenia And Depression
When elderly drivers get behind the wheel, they often confront the harrowing reality that they
cannot easily see other cars, pedestrians, or cyclists moving around them

PPP3CC and EGR3 variants not linked to schizophrenia in Japanese people

Single nucleotide polymorphisms in the calcineurin A gamma subunit and early growth
response genes are not associated with schizophrenia susceptibility

Mental Health Nursing and First Episode Psychosis

The purpose of this literature review is to identify mental health nursing's contribution to the care
and treatment of patients with a first episode of psychosis

Relatives of schizophrenia patients show emotion recognition impairments

The unaffected relatives of patients with schizophrenia show impairments in the recognition of
certain facial emotions, researchers have found

N-acetyl-aspartate levels reduced in first-episode schizophrenia patients

Results from a Japanese study suggest that patients with first-episode schizophrenia have
reduced levels of the metabolite N-acetyl-aspartate (NAA) in certain brain areas, as well as
reduced serum levels of 3-methoxy-4-hydroxyphenylglycol (MHPG)

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What Constitutes a Good Working Alliance in Therapy with Children That May Have Been
Sexually Abused?
use of qualitative methods in a case by case study of 15 psychotherapies with children allowed
for inquiries into how the working alliance can be established when children are involved

Creating Images of Old People as Home Care Receivers: Categorizations of Needs in

Social Work Case Files
Central to the assessment process in case management is how older people’s needs are
constructed through documentation and case files

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Books, Conferences,
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NEW PUBLICATIONS
Books and reports hot of the press
Click the title to connect to the website entry

Generalised anxiety disorder and panic disorder (with or without agoraphobia) in adults
NICE

Aripiprazole for schizophrenia in people aged 15 to 17 years

NICE

Sleep Matters
Mental Health Foundation

Talking about end of life care: right conversations, right people, right time
National End of Life Care Programme

Statistics on Drug Misuse, England - 2010 Report

NHS Information centre

Solution-oriented Social Work Practice: An Integrative Approach to Working with Client

Strengths

Ethical Conundrums, Quandaries and Predicaments in Mental Health Practice: A

Casebook from the Files of Experts

Motivational Interviewing With Adolescents and Young Adults

How to Talk With Families About Genetics and Psychiatric Illness

Ageing and Older Adult Mental Health: Issues and Implications for Practice

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Schizophrenia: 3rd Revised edition

Substance Abuse Disorders: Evidence and Experience

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