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National News

Watchdog urges provider checks to stop Southern Cross repeat The Scottish government should consider introducing financial health checks on larger social care providers to prevent another Southern Cross-style collapse Poor staffing levels undermine human rights in nursing homes Poor staffing levels are undermining human rights in nursing homes by creating an "accepted indignity" in which residents are left wet or soiled for lengthy periods until staff become available Ofsted inspectors to look at adoption breakdowns Social work teams will be inspected on how many adoptions break down in their authority under Ofsteds new inspection framework, Community Care has learnt Care home residents lack NHS services - CQC survey Vulnerable people in care homes may be struggling to get access to GPs and routine medicines, a review suggests Over-45s tend to drink more often, says ONS survey Adults aged over 45 are three times as likely to drink alcohol every day as those aged under 45, results of a lifestyle survey suggest Personalisation central to social care management standards Personalisation should be at the heart of good management in social care according to revised management induction standards launched today by Skills for Care Social workers must think differently to improve mental health services Social workers need to change their mindset if services for families with mental health problems are to be improved, says a report by the Social Care Institute for Excellence Centre welcomes proposals to raise age of criminal responsibility and calls for care, not custody for girls with poor mental health We support the Howard Leagues call to lift the age of criminal responsibility to 14. Young women are much less likely to offend than young males and their crimes tend towards minor misdemeanours
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Employment services for prisoners must include mental health support The Governments announcement that people leaving prison and claiming Jobseekers Allowance will be referred straight away to the Work Programme to help them into employment is a welcome step but must be combined with effective support for prison leavers mental health and wellbeing Social workers to face three-month adoption target Social workers will soon be expected to find prospective adopters within three months of a child being recommended for adoption, prime minister David Cameron will announce today

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International News

India's Lupin gets U.S. nod for schizophrenia capsules India's Lupin Ltd has received the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's approval for the generic version of Geodon capsules used to treat schizophrenia, the drugmaker said on Monday An Urgent Need For More Effective Treatments For Adolescent Depression More than 2 million teenagers suffer from depression in the U.S. Recent drug warnings and study results have led to increased controversy surrounding the treatment of adolescent depression Report On Mental Health Care Identifies Need For Research On Immigrants, Not Just Ethnic Minority Populations The methods psychologists and other health-care providers are using to treat immigrants to the United States need to be better tailored to deal with their specific cultures and needs, according to a task force report released by the American Psychological Association

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RESEARCH RESEARCH

Four or More PMDD Symptoms Linked With Impairment Women with four or more symptoms of premenstrual dysphoric disorder (PMDD) are likely to experience impairment

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Addictions
Substance abuse, alcoholism, Defining dosing pattern characteristics of successful tapers following methadone maintenance treatment: Results from a population-based retrospective cohort study The majority of patients attempting to taper from methadone maintenance treatment will not succeed. Success is enhanced by gradual dose reductions interspersed with periods of stabilization. These results can inform the development of a more refined guideline for future clinical practice Fetal Cocaine Exposure May Not Affect Kids' Academics: Study Drinking during pregnancy did show impact on learning ability Adoption Model Used To Understand The Impact Of Genetics And Environment On Drug Abuse Risk The risk of abusing drugs is greater - even for adopted children - if the family environment in which they are raised is dysfunctional Predicting 10-Year Alcohol Use Trajectories Among Men Age 50 Years and Older To describe common 10-year drinking trajectories followed by men age 50 years or older and identify risk factors for those trajectories LSD 'helps alcoholics to give up drinking' One dose of the hallucinogenic drug LSD could help alcoholics give up drinking, according to an analysis of studies performed in the 1960s Brain's Natural Resistance To Drugs May Offer Clues To Treating Addition A single injection of cocaine or methamphetamine in mice caused their brains to put the brakes on neurons that generate sensations of pleasure, and these cellular changes lasted for at least a week

Anxiety Disorders

Defensive Mobilization in Specific Phobia: Fear Specificity, Negative Affectivity, and Diagnostic Prominence Understanding of exaggerated responsivity in specific phobiaits physiology and neural mediatorshas advanced considerably Anxiety disorders in intimate partners and the quality of their relationship The aim of this study was to explain whether anxiety disorders presenting in one or both partners of a relationship can influence the latter and to what extent Persistent anxiety disorders common in young bipolar disorder patients Persistent and new-onset anxiety disorders are common in young people with bipolar disorder, results from a 5-year follow-up study suggest

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Dementia
Alzheimers Depression, Cognitive Decline Linked in Elderly With CAD Depression in adults treated for coronary artery disease linked to higher risk of cognitive decline Specific Antibodies Halt Alzheimer's Disease in Mice Antibodies that block the process of synapse disintegration in Alzheimer's disease have been identified, raising hopes for a treatment to combat early cognitive decline in the disease Alzheimer's patients 'should stay on drugs for longer' Thousands of patients with advanced Alzheimer's disease could benefit from drugs, research suggests Donepezil For Treatment Of Moderate To Severe Alzheimer's A new study reveals that the drug donepezil, used for the treatment of dementia and mild to moderate Alzheimer's Disease, which targets 750,000 people around the world, may be effective in treating patients with moderate to severe cases, as well

Depression
Bipolar disorders Undiagnosed bipolar disorder common in depressed Chinese patients Research in a Chinese population suggests that around one-fifth of patients treated for depression may have undiagnosed bipolar disorder Metacognitive Therapy in Treatment Resistant Depression: A Platform Trial Patients with treatment resistant depression received up to 8 sessions of metacognitive therapy (MCT) targeting attentional control, rumination, worry, and metacognitive beliefs Does differential drop-out explain the influence of study design on antidepressant response? A meta-analysis Response to antidepressants is higher in active comparator relative to placebo-controlled clinical trials. Increased patient expectancy in comparator trials has been hypothesized to explain this finding, but previous analyses have not accounted for the increased drop-out observed in placebo-controlled trials The Oxford Questionnaire on the Emotional Side-effects of Antidepressants (OQuESA): Development, validity, reliability and sensitivity to change Some patients with major depression report a restricted range of emotions that may appear to arise as a side-effect of treatment with antidepressants Young Adults With Asperger Syndrome Frequently Suffer From Depression Given that almost 70% of young adults with Asperger syndrome have suffered from depression, it is vital that psychiatric care staff are aware of this so that patients are given the right treatment, reveals research Gliadin IgG antibody levels increased in acute mania Patients with acute mania have increased levels of immunoglobulin (Ig)G antibodies to gliadin, results from a US study suggest U.S. Army Suicides Rising Sharply, Study Finds
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Service in Iraq and Afghanistan appears to be the cause of increasing mental-health problems Animal Study Suggests New Strategy For Treating Depression Getting rid of a protein increases the birth of new nerve cells and shortens the time it takes for antidepressants to take effect Persistent anxiety disorders common in young bipolar disorder patients Persistent and new-onset anxiety disorders are common in young people with bipolar disorder, results from a 5-year follow-up study suggest Benefits From Antidepressants: Synthesis of 6-Week Patient-Level Outcomes From Double-blind Placebo-Controlled Randomized Trials of Fluoxetine and Venlafaxine Some meta-analyses suggest that efficacy of antidepressants for major depression is overstated and limited to severe depression. OBJECTIVE: To determine the short-term efficacy of antidepressants for treating major depressive disorder in youth, adult, and geriatric populations Misdiagnosis common among bipolar disorder patients considerable proportion of patients with bipolar disorder are misdiagnosed with other mental health disorders, results from a Norwegian study of psychiatric patients suggest Violence as a risk factor for postpartum depression in mothers: a meta-analysis The objective of this paper is to examine the association between violence and postpartum depression Mindful pregnancy and childbirth: effects of a mindfulness-based intervention on womens psychological distress and well-being in the perinatal period This pilot study explored the effects of an 8-week mindfulness-based cognitive therapy group on pregnant women Outcomes from implementing systematic antepartum depression screening in obstetrics This study was developed to evaluate the feasibility of implementing systematic depression screening in a large obstetric practice and to evaluate the degree that detection and referral led to linkage with behavioral healthcare

Dual Diagnosis

Changing Habits: an evaluation of a dual diagnosis focused, integrated, multimodal, psychosocial education and skill building group programme delivered in a communitybased setting Over the past decade the evidence for the effectiveness of integrated treatment for people with co-occurring mental health and substance use problems has continued to expand Depression, anxiety and comorbid substance use: association patterns in outpatient addictions treatment Depression and anxiety disorders commonly coexist with drug and alcohol use. Several general population surveys suggest non-linear associations between alcohol and depression symptoms

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Eating Disorders

Can birth weight predict later body composition in anorexia nervosa? The relationship between birth weight and body composition at later stages in life was not studied previously in anorexia nervosa The relationship among compulsive buying, compulsive internet use and temperament in a sample of female patients with eating disorders The aim of the present study was to investigate the association among compulsive buying, compulsive internet use and reactive/regulative temperament in a sample of 60 female patients with eating disorders Family Work in Anorexia Nervosa: A Qualitative Study of Carers' Experiences of Two Methods of Family Intervention Qualitative methodology was used to examine treatment efficacy, carer satisfaction and process of change in carers of people with anorexia nervosa who participated in a randomised controlled trial (RCT) comparing individual family work (IFW) and multi-(dual) family workshops

Forensic Psychiatry

The Best Interest of the Child-Questionnaire, reliability and validity: Preliminary data on the question where to live after detention or secure treatment? The Best Interest of the Child-Questionnaire (BIC-Q) has been designed as an instrument for screening the quality of the rearing situation of children with behavioural problems or delinquency. It is intended to aid legal decisions in juvenile and family law The management of released prisoners with severe and enduring mental illness Prisoners have higher rates of mental disorder than the general population. Imprisonment provides an opportunity to engage with mental health services Reconstructing normality: Characteristics of staff interactions with forensic mental health inpatients Forensic psychiatry is an area of priority for the Danish Government. As the field expands, this calls for increased knowledge about mental health nursing practice, as this is part of the forensic psychiatry treatment offered

Learning Disabilities

Immaturity May Lead To Misdiagnosis Of ADHD The youngest children in the classroom are significantly more likely to be diagnosed with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) - and prescribed medication - than their peers in the same grade
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Factor Structure of the Childrens Behavior Questionnaire in Children with Williams Syndrome To examine the factor structure of temperament in 510-year-olds with Williams syndrome, an exploratory factor analysis was conducted on the responses of parents of 192 children on the childrens behavior questionnaire Aripiprazole in Children with Tourette's Disorder and Co-morbid AttentionDeficit/Hyperactivity Disorder: A 12-Week, Open-Label, Preliminary Study Tourette's Disorder (TD) in children and adolescents is frequently co-morbid with attentiondeficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) Young Adults With Asperger Syndrome Frequently Suffer From Depression Given that almost 70% of young adults with Asperger syndrome have suffered from depression, it is vital that psychiatric care staff are aware of this so that patients are given the right treatment, reveals research Autism: Don't Look Now -- I'm Trying to Think Children with autism look away from faces when thinking, especially about challenging material, according to new research from Northumbria University

Nursing Research

The Ethos of Physical Activity Delivery in Mental Health: A Narrative Study of Service User Experiences Our research into the physical activity experiences of people with severe mental illness has led us to take seriously the social and cultural environment in which physical activity is delivered Reconstructing normality: Characteristics of staff interactions with forensic mental health inpatients Forensic psychiatry is an area of priority for the Danish Government. As the field expands, this calls for increased knowledge about mental health nursing practice, as this is part of the forensic psychiatry treatment offered Nurses' role in caring for people with a comorbidity of mental illness and intellectual disability: A literature review This article examines literature on the role of the nurse caring for people with a dual disability (DD) of intellectual disability and mental illness

Obsessive Compulsive Disorders

Aripiprazole in Children with Tourette's Disorder and Co-morbid AttentionDeficit/Hyperactivity Disorder: A 12-Week, Open-Label, Preliminary Study Tourette's Disorder (TD) in children and adolescents is frequently co-morbid with attentiondeficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) Neuropsychological correlates of insight in obsessivecompulsive disorder There are limited data on neuropsychological correlates of poor insight in obsessive
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compulsive disorder (OCD). We hypothesize that poor insight may be associated with greater impairment in tasks of conflict resolution/response inhibition and possibly impairment in a task of verbal learning and memory

Occupational Therapy

Pleasure, Throwing Breaches, and Embodied Metaphors: Tracing Transformations-inParticipation for a Child With Autism to a Sensory IntegrationBased Therapy In occupational therapy practice, the rich interweaving of procedural and narrative reasoning results in healing transformations Sense and Self-Regulation Checklist, a Measure of Comorbid Autism Symptoms: Initial Psychometric Evidence Sensory and self-regulatory symptoms make up most of the comorbid symptoms in autism and are associated with increased autism severity State of mental health research in the american journal of occupational therapy, 20082011 Although other practice areas have seen an increase in the number and rigor of intervention effectiveness studies, mental health occupational therapy research has been insufficient to support the profession's role in traditional mental health services

Post Traumatic Stress Disorder

Reliability and Validity of the PDS and PSS-I Among Participants With PTSD and Alcohol Dependence The prevalence of alcohol use disorder (e.g., alcohol dependence; AD) among individuals with posttraumatic stress disorder is quite high, with estimates of 52% for men and 30% for women Veterans With Mental Health Issues Receive More Opioids Risks of opioid use and adverse clinical outcomes especially high in veterans with PTSD PTSD-Related Nightmares Treated With Blood Pressure Drug Prazosin Mayo Clinic researchers this week will announce the use of the blood pressure drug prazosin as an effective treatment to curb post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)-related nightmares To describe common 10-year drinking trajectories followed by men age 50 years or older and identify risk factors for those trajectories Disturbances in self-referential processing are increasingly recognized in post-traumatic stress disorder

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Psychology

Segregation of study items in memory determines the magnitude and direction of directed forgetting When words at study are divided into to-be-remembered and to-be-forgotten ones, people recall more of the former than of the latter in a surprise memory test for all words Attachment and callous-unemotional traits in children with early-onset conduct problems Antisocial children with callous-unemotional traits appear to be disconnected from other peoples emotions; although little is known about their experience of the parent-child emotional bond.

Schizophrenia

Atopic disorders linked to increased schizophrenia risk Results from a Danish study suggest that patients with atopic disorders, particularly those with asthma, are at increased risk for schizophrenia Outcomes post-discharge from an early intervention in psychosis service To investigate the effectiveness of an early intervention in psychosis (EIP) service on engagement and hospital bed usage, post-discharge. A secondary aim was to identify if there was a subgroup of patients with poor outcomes Apathy common in psychosis patients Clinically significant apathy affects around a third of patients with psychosis 10 years after illness onset, and is associated with reduced functioning and quality of life, research suggests Attributional bias not linked to paranoia in patients at risk for psychosis Results from a US study suggest that attributional bias is not a risk factor for the development of paranoid delusions among young people at high risk for psychosis Effects of sertindole on cognition in clozapine-treated schizophrenia patients To assess the cognitive effects of sertindole augmentation in clozapine-treated patients diagnosed with schizophrenia Second-person pronoun use linked to schizophrenia in high-risk patients Patients at high risk for psychosis who go on to develop schizophrenia use second-person pronouns to a significantly greater extent than high-risk patients who do not subsequently develop the disorder, UK research shows

Social Work

A parting of the ways? The diverging nature of mental health social work in the light of the new Acts in Scotland, and in England and Wales
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This article uses the concept of citizenship to explore the recent mental health statutes within England and Wales and within Scotland. It argues that differences in the content, and practice context, herald a parting of the ways in mental health social work in the United Kingdom Understanding Treatment Effectiveness for Aggressive Youth: The Importance of Regulation in Mother-Child Interactions Reviews summarizing hundreds of studies cite parent management training and cognitivebehavior therapy as some of the most effective interventions for aggressive youth

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Books and reports hot of the press Click the title to connect to the website entry SCIE Report 56: Think child, think parent, think family: final evaluation report Keeping girls out of the penal system All Party Parliamentary Group on Women in the Penal System A Practitioner's Guide to Prescribing Antiepileptics and Mood Stabilizers for Adults With Intellectual Disabilities A Guide to Psychiatric Services in Schools Key Issues in Evolving Dementia Care: International Theory-based Policy and Practice Understanding Early Childhood Mental Health: A Practical Guide for Professionals Maximising The Benefits of Psychotherapy: A Practice-Based Evidence Approach Psychological Recovery: Beyond Mental Illness Coercive Treatment in Psychiatry: Clinical, Legal and Ethical Aspects Asperger Syndrome in Adulthood: A Comprehensive Guide for Clinicians
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