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Psychiatry’s 200th birthday
- Author:
- MARNEROS Andreas
- Journal article citation:
- British Journal of Psychiatry, 192(7), July 2008, pp.1-3.
- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
Professor Johann Christian Reil of Halle, Germany, first introduced the term ‘psychiatry’ in 1808. He argued that mental illness should be treated by physicians and that psychiatry required the very best medical practitioners. He stressed the important relationships between physical and mental factors in illness and the role of psychotherapy as one of the main treatment approaches in medicine. He was a strong advocate of humane treatment and reduction of stigma. Many of his ideas remain important today.
Walking talking therapy
- Authors:
- BEAUCHEMIN James, MANNS Joleen
- Journal article citation:
- Mental Health Today, April 2008, pp.34-35.
- Publisher:
- Pavilion
- Place of publication:
- Hove
Given the links between mental health, obesity and exercise, the author discusses whether physical activity could be incorporated into therapy sessions with young people. The article includes a brief case study of on young person suffering from a depressive disorder and anxiety.
In their own image
- Author:
- DRINKWATER Mark
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 17.01.08, 2008, pp.28-29.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Ever since the invention of the camera, photography has played a role in psychiatry. The author examines these historical beginnings and highlights examples of photography in contemporary mental health services.
Who stays in treatment? Child and family predictors of youth client retention in a public mental health agency
- Authors:
- MILLER Lauren M., SOUTHAM-GEROW Michael A., ALLIN Robert B.
- Journal article citation:
- Child and Youth Care Forum, 37(4), August 2008, pp.153-170.
- Publisher:
- Springer
The present study examined predictors of youth client retention in therapy in a large community-based sample in the United States. Several conceptualizations of retention were used, including (a) “intake retention” (i.e., returned to treatment after intake session); (b) “mutual termination” (i.e., termination agreed upon by family and therapist), (c) “mean treatment duration” (i.e., completing the mean number of sessions in the agency), and (d) “total treatment duration” (i.e., total number of sessions). Archival data from over 400 children and adolescents who sought treatment at a large public mental health clinic were analyzed using regression analyses. Although different predictors were identified across the various conceptualizations, a few robust predictors emerged including ethnicity and client symptom severity. Clinical implications and future research directions are discussed.
A naturalistic study of intensive short-term dynamic psychotherapy trial therapy
- Authors:
- ABBASS Allan A., JOFFRES Michel R., OGRODNICZUK John S.
- Journal article citation:
- Brief Treatment and Crisis Intervention, 8(2), May 2008, pp.164-170.
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
The objective is to study the effectiveness of Intensive Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapy (ISTDP) trial therapies. In a tertiary psychotherapy service, Brief Symptom Inventory (BSI), Inventory of Interpersonal Problems (IIP) medication use, and need for further treatment were evaluated before versus 1-month post trial therapy in a sequential series of 30 clients. Trial therapies were interviews with active focus on emotions and how they are experienced. The interviews resulted in statistically significant improvements on all BSI subscales and one of the IIP subscales. One-third of clients required no further treatment, seven stopped medications, and two returned to work following trial therapy. The ISTDP trial therapy appeared to be clinically effective and cost effective.
Resilient therapy: strategic therapeutic engagement with children in crisis
- Authors:
- HART Angie, BLINCOW Derek, THOMAS Helen
- Journal article citation:
- Child Care in Practice, 14(2), April 2008, pp.131-145.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
This article offers an overview of Resilient Therapy (RT) and outlines a case study of how it can be used in practice. RT draws on the resilience research base, and has been designed to meet the needs of children in crisis by providing insights and analytical tools that help carers and practitioners build relationships of trust in the hardest of circumstances. RT emphasises Masten's notion of “ordinary magic”, and the idea of the “Resilient Therapist” has emerged through practice situations with parents, carers and colleagues, and through work with specialist Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services. The core competences of the Resilient Therapist are outlined, with a case example providing an illustration of how RT can be applied.
Relating to self-harm and suicide prevention: psychoanalytic perspectives on practice, theory and prevention
- Editors:
- BRIGGS Stephen, LEMMA Alessandra, CROUCH William, (eds.)
- Publisher:
- Routledge
- Publication year:
- 2008
- Pagination:
- 272p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Based on the papers and dialogue that took place at the 2nd International Suicidality and Psychoanalysis Congress in 2006, this book presents studies and research from psychoanalysts, therapists and academics. It focuses on the psychoanalytic understanding of suicide and self-harm and how this can be applied to clinical work and policy. Its three sections cover: a theoretical overview, examples of psychoanalytic practice with self-harming and suicidal patients, and applications of psychoanalytic thinking to suicide and self-harm prevention.
Fabricated or induced illness in a child by a carer: a reader
- Author:
- BOOLS Christopher
- Publisher:
- Radcliffe
- Publication year:
- 2008
- Pagination:
- 144p., bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Oxford
This book will assist professionals by providing easy access to original sources of information about illness fabricated or induced (FII), previously known as Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy. It is a collaboration from professionals with varied backgrounds and promotes a multi-disciplinary and multi-agency approach with a child welfare focus. The information is wide ranging and includes experiences of professionals and victims. Contents include: nature of the phenomena; impact on victims; behaviour, relationships and psychopathology; explanatory models - trying to understand FII; responses by professionals - challenges for the multi-disciplinary response; contributions by psychiatric services; incidence and knowledge of FII; prevention of FII.
Change in child psychopathology with improvement in parental depression: a systematic review
- Authors:
- GUNLICKS Meredith L., WEISSMAN Myrna M.
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 47(4), May 2008, pp.379-389.
- Publisher:
- Lippincott Williams and Wilkins
- Place of publication:
- Baltimore
Ten studies met the broad inclusion criteria of this review, which focused on trials and observational studies of depressed parents that also included psychological and behavioural assessments of children aged 18 or under. The studies varied considerably in samples, treatments, assessment and analysis, but provided some evidence of a link between the successful treatment of parental depression and improvement in the mental health and psychosocial symptoms and functioning of children. However, it also appears that the treatment of post partum depression may not be sufficient for improving attachment, cognitive development and temperament in infants and toddlers. Further studies are needed to explore the precise relationship between parental and child symptoms (including any mediators or moderators), the differential effects of parental treatment with medication versus psychotherapy, and the effects of fathers’ as well as mothers’ symptomatic improvement on children.
A great deal
- Authors:
- SEATON Steve, EVANS David, WELLINGS Joyce
- Journal article citation:
- Therapy Today, 19(4), May 2008, pp.19-23.
- Publisher:
- British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy
In a bid to strengthen the case for sustained investment in preventive services, a partnership of Hertfordshire-based agencies set out to calculate the extent of savings to the public purse which counselling might effect using a new evaluation tool SESI (Socio-Economic Spreadsheet Instrument). This article reports on the findings of their action research project