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Helping patients to cope with seasonal affective disorder
- Author:
- HARION Nerys
- Journal article citation:
- Nursing Times, 13.11.07, 2007, pp.25-26.
- Publisher:
- Nursing Times
The author looks at the causes and symptoms of Seasonal Affective Disorder and types of treatment available.
Recovery and strengths based practice
- Author:
- McCORMACK John
- Publisher:
- Scottish Recovery Network
- Publication year:
- 2007
- Pagination:
- 15p.
- Place of publication:
- Glasgow
This is the sixth in a series of discussion papers designed to help generate debate on how best to promote and support recovery from long-term mental health problems in Scotland. This paper discusses the role of strengths in recovery and strengths based practice describing Solution Focused Therapy (SFT) as one particular model. Strengths based practice is a paradigm shift in mental health and has been implemented widely in the design and delivery of services in New Zealand, Canada, North America, Japan and increasingly so in the UK. This discussion paper contrasts a deficits approach with a strengths approach, and explores the meaning of strengths and from this how to assess for strengths as well as needs. The solution focused approach is offered as a model of how to implement strengths based practice.
Regulatory policies on medicines for psychiatric disorders: is Europe on target?
- Authors:
- BARBUI Corrado, GARATTINI Silvio
- Journal article citation:
- British Journal of Psychiatry, 190(2), February 2007, pp.91-93.
- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
The European Medicines Agency (EMEA) is the regulatory body that provides the institutions of the European Community with the best possible scientific advice on the quality, safety and efficacy of medicinal products. Drugs approved by the EMEA are automatically marketable in all the European member states. Since the beginning of the EMEA’s activities a number of drugs acting on the central nervous system obtained marketing authorisation. This paper highlights some aspects of the EMEA rules that may negatively affect the evaluation of medicines for psychiatric disorders.
Handbook of psychosocial rehabilitation
- Authors:
- KING Robert, LLOYD Chris, MEEHAN Tom
- Publisher:
- Blackwell
- Publication year:
- 2007
- Pagination:
- 227p.
- Place of publication:
- Oxford
The Handbook of Psychosocial Rehabilitation is designed as a clinical handbook for practitioners in the field of mental health. It recognises the wide-ranging impact of mental illness and its ramifications on daily life. The book promotes a recovery model of psychosocial rehabilitation and aims to empower clinicians to engage their clients in tailored rehabilitation plans. The authors distil relevant evidence from the literature, but the focus is on the clinical setting. Coverage includes the service environment, assessment, maintaining recovery-focussed therapeutic relationships, the role of pharmacotherapy, intensive case management and vocational rehabilitation.
Charismatic/Pentecostal Christians, spirituality, and treatment: the revival phenomenon
- Authors:
- BELCHER John R., BURRY Caroline
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Social Work Practice in the Addictions, 7(4), 2007, pp.93-111.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- Philadelphia, USA
In the USA revival is widely practised in Charismatic/Pentecostal circles, and has been used as a means of ‘treating’ people with addictions and mental health problems. At the same time, such circles are commonly ‘closed’ and seek to remain separate from the world, raising potential difficulties for social workers and other professionals dealing with such clients. Revival practice is described, and the implications for social work practice are discussed. These include the need to understand a mindset that attributes illness to sin, and believes that healing requires divine intervention. (Copies of this article are available from: Haworth Document Delivery Centre, Haworth Press Inc., 10 Alice Street, Binghamton, NY 13904-1580).
Dual diagnosis: a challenging therapeutic issue of our time
- Author:
- ASKEY Jane
- Journal article citation:
- Drugs and Alcohol Today, 7(4), December 2007, pp.33-39.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
This article looks at some of the challenges that face staff working in both substance misuse services and mental health services as they work to deliver services to a group of service users with multiple and complex needs. It will look at the way in which dual diagnosis is defined, the challenges that face both services and service users, how new government guidance could impact upon improved working practice and outcomes in the future and what some of the barriers are to the successful implementation of this guidance.
The impact of participating in a poetry workshop
- Authors:
- HILSE Christine, GRIFFITHS Sue, CORR Susan
- Journal article citation:
- British Journal of Occupational Therapy, 70(10), October 2007, pp.431-438.
- Publisher:
- Sage
Poetry writing is a creative activity and, as such, may contribute to intervention. The aim of this study was to explore the impact of poetry writing on individuals who had experienced mental health problems in the past. A qualitative approach, that of grounded theory, was used, including observations of a poetry writing group and in-depth semi-structured interviews with two group participants who had a previous history of mental health problems. The main categories that emerged during data analysis were creation, communication, connection and awareness; these categories were unified by a central concept of personal meaning. The findings suggest that poetry writing creates and communicates meaning. In addition, internal connection (with self) and external connection (with others) may be facilitated through the communication of poetry. Communication and experiences of connection can lead to a greater awareness of self and others. Personal meaning is central to human life in symbolisation processes, which contribute to identity building. The positive and negative impacts on mental health through the writing of poetry and participating in a group were identified. This is a small study and the findings are valid only in the immediate context of the study, but it provides a basis for further research.
Are you sad or what?
- Author:
- POINTON Clare
- Journal article citation:
- Therapy Today, 18(8), October 2007, pp.40-41.
- Publisher:
- British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy
Therapists must recognise the signs of Seasonal Affective Disorder or they risk harming the client. This article looks at what therapists must consider in assessment and treatment.
Distinguishing worry from rumination in older people: a preliminary investigation
- Authors:
- REWSTON C., et al
- Journal article citation:
- Aging and Mental Health, 11(5), September 2007, pp.604-611.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
Anxiety and depression are common mental health problems in later life. Since worry and rumination are thought to underpin the respective primary cognitive processes in anxiety and depression, we developed a measure to distinguish worry from rumination in later life. The Ruminative Response Scale was adapted to include items that characterise the cognitive features of worry. The authors examined its properties using 92 clinical and non-clinical participants, aged over 65. Factor analysis demonstrated a three-factor structure: brooding, reflection and worry with internal consistencies of = 0.72, = 0.67 and = 0.55 respectively. No evidence for concurrent validity of these factors was found using the Penn State Worry Questionnaire. Modest but significant associations between reflection and brooding (r = 0.36) and reflection and worry (r = 0.2) were found. Brooding and worry sub-scales remained unrelated. It is suggested that it is possible to distinguish worry from rumination in older people and that differentiating between their key underlying characteristics in the assessment of mood problems may enhance the targeting and evaluation of cognitive-behavioural therapy for anxiety and depression in later life. Future research with a substantial clinical sample is needed to explore the underlying dimensions and correlates of worry in later life.
Introducing resilient therapy to the family courts
- Authors:
- BLINCOW Derek, THOMAS Helen, HART Angie
- Journal article citation:
- Family Law, 37, September 2007, pp.838-843.
- Publisher:
- Jordan
This article introduces 'resilient therapy', a new approach designed to promote the mental health of those most disadvantaged children and families. It has been developed from the need to harness what works best for children who grow up in what is termed 'constellated disadvantage'. This is where it is not just a question of a child's mental health diagnosis, but any combination of factors such as episodes of abuse, domestic violence, parental mental illness, substance misuse and poverty. Resilient therapy is a 'wrap-around' treatment approach that is designed to be cost-effectiveness.