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Cutting through the pain
- Author:
- FREEMAN Jacqueline
- Journal article citation:
- Nursing Times, 10.01.02, 2001, pp.38-39.
- Publisher:
- Nursing Times
Looks at the background and causes of self harm. Explains why empathy and understanding is vital in the treatment of people who self-harm.
The clinical advantage of the death instinct
- Author:
- WASKA Robert
- Journal article citation:
- Psychoanalytic Social Work, 8(2), 2001, pp.23-40.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
The death instinct is dirived from Kleinian theory and has been subject to great debate. This paper explores the advantages of the concept from both a clinical and theoretical perspective. Due to their self-destructive ways, certain patients seem to create difficult and destructive transference-countertransference patterns. Case material is used to illustrate manifestations of the death instinct.
Young people's experience of adult in-patient psychiatric care: a Northern Ireland case study
- Author:
- SCOTT David
- Journal article citation:
- Mental Health and Learning Disabilities Care, 4(9), May 2001, pp.305-308.
- Publisher:
- Pavilion
Mental health problems among young people are common, and increasing in incidence. Up to 20 percent of adolescents may experience psychiatric disorder. Yet services for this group are woefully inadequate, and often young people have to be admitted to adult in-patient units. Reports on a survey of young people in Northern Ireland about their sometimes traumatic experiences of admission and treatment in adult patient psychiatric units.
Learning to live with life
- Author:
- TRAINOR Gemma
- Journal article citation:
- Mental Health and Learning Disabilities Care, 4(8), April 2001, pp.273-275.
- Publisher:
- Pavilion
Reports on an innovative form of group therapy for young people who self-harm.
Deliberate self-harm: the impact of a specialist DSH team on assessment quality
- Authors:
- WHYTE Sean, BLEWETT Andrew
- Journal article citation:
- Psychiatric Bulletin, 25(3), March 2001, pp.98-101.
- Publisher:
- Royal College of Psychiatrists
This research was a repetition after 5 years of a prospective case note audit, looking at the impact of a recently established deliberate self-harm (DSH) assessment team on the quality of DSH assessments at Kettering general hospital. Results showed that a specialist DSH team achieved improvement in the quality of psychiatric assessments for the majority of patients who harmed themselves. Assessments of mental state by accident and emergency (A&E) and medical staff before referral to the psychiatric team remain problematic. Setting up a specialist team to assess patients who harm themselves can improve the quality of the psychiatric care they receive, but emphasis must still be placed on an adequate assessment of mental state by medical and nursing staff in A & E and on medical wards.
Psychiatric and personality disorders in deliberate self-harm patients
- Authors:
- HAW Camilla, et al
- Journal article citation:
- British Journal of Psychiatry, 178, January 2001, pp.48-54.
- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
Previous UK studies have reported much lower rates of psychiatric and personality disorder in those who attempt suicide than in those who die by suicide. The aim of this study was to determine the nature and prevalence of psychiatric and personality disorders in deliberate self-harm patients. A representative sample of 150 DSH patients who presented to a general hospital were assessed using a structured clinical interview and a standardised instrument. Findings showed that psychiatric and personality disorders, and their comorbidity, are common in DSH patients. This has important implications for assessment and management.
Is abuse trauma ignored?
- Author:
- NELSON Sarah
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 22.11.01, 2001, pp.36-37.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
The author examines why mental health services are reluctant to help femail adult survivors of sexual abuse come to terms with their childhood ordeal.