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Do helplines help?: summary report
- Author:
- RETHINK
- Publisher:
- Rethink
- Publication year:
- 2003
- Pagination:
- 15p.
- Place of publication:
- Kingston upon Thames
The report Do Helplines Help? summarises research carried out among people using two of our large 24 hours, seven days a week helpline services, statutory agencies and commissioners. The research showed that these services offer invaluable support, reduce anxiety and help callers feel more in control and less isolated. The research was funded by the National Institute for Mental Health in England.
The myth of the magic antipsychotic
- Author:
- MONCRIEFF Joanna
- Journal article citation:
- Mental Health Today, June 2008, pp.18-19, 22.
- Publisher:
- Pavilion
- Place of publication:
- Hove
The author argues that drugs can sometimes help people cope with mental illness not by correcting a chemical imbalance in the brain - disease-centred model - but by inducing an abnormal state. The author discusses this alternative model - the drug-centred model.
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.
Final demand: debt and mental health
- Authors:
- FIRST STEP TRUST, ROYAL COLLEGE OF PSYCHIATRISTS. College Research and Training Unit
- Publisher:
- Royal College of Psychiatrists
- Publication year:
- 2006
- Pagination:
- 22p.
- Place of publication:
- London
One in three people with a serious mental health problem are in debt. This booklet provides practical advice for health workers on dealing with this issue. It doesn't expect health workers to become debt advisers, but describes the big differences that they can make by knowing and doing small things.
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.
Developing a theoretical understanding of therapy techniques: an illustrative analogue study
- Authors:
- FREEMAN Daniel, et al
- Journal article citation:
- British Journal of Clinical Psychology, 44(2), June 2005, pp.241-254.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
In psychological interventions, clients are often asked to review unhelpful beliefs. Surprisingly, there is no theoretical understanding of how beliefs are reviewed in therapy. Moreover, by understanding a therapeutic technique, potential interactions with symptom processes can be considered. An analogue study assessing the feasibility of researching therapy techniques is described, in which links between symptoms, reasoning style, and an experimental version of the cognitive therapy technique of belief evaluation are examined. Thirty individuals without psychiatric illness completed (i) dimensional measures of depression, anxiety, and delusions, (ii) a measure of confirmatory reasoning both before and after instruction in disconfirmatory reasoning, and (iii) a belief evaluation task. Compared with individuals with a confirmatory reasoning style, individuals with a disconfirmatory reasoning style were less hasty in their data gathering, considered a greater number of hypotheses during the task, had higher intellectual functioning, and had lower levels of depressive symptoms. Conversely, the individuals with the strongest confirmatory reasoning had higher levels of depression and preoccupation with delusional ideation. Successful adoption of disconfirmatory reasoning was associated with less hasty decision-making and lower levels of preoccupation and distress by delusional ideation. Individuals with a disconfirmatory reasoning style reported more evidence both for and against their beliefs in the belief evaluation task. In the context of clinical research indicating that individuals with delusions are hasty in their data gathering and have difficulty considering alternatives, a potential implication of the findings is that individuals with delusions may find belief evaluation in therapy.
Personality disorder: attitudes, understanding and treatment
- Authors:
- GREEN Barrie, WOOD Simon
- Journal article citation:
- Nursing Times, 16.11.04, 2004, pp.40-43.
- Publisher:
- Nursing Times
Looks at historical attitudes to personality disorder, sufferers from which are often stigmatised and dehumanised, and how understanding has developed in recent years, while legislation has failed to keep pace. Although often assumed to be untreatable, techniques that appear effective in helping such people integrate more successfully into society are summarised.
Blue sky hospitals
- Authors:
- ALDRIDGE Jo, SEMPIK Joe
- Journal article citation:
- Openmind, 128, July 2004, pp.8-9.
- Publisher:
- MIND
Looks at the benefits of social and therapeutic horticulture projects for people with mental health problems. Taken from a forthcoming report from the Centre for Child and Family Research at Loughbourgh University in partnership with Thrive, the leading UK charity involved in supporting social and therapeutic horticulture.
Express yourself
- Author:
- EVANS Kate
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 12.2.04, 2004, p.28.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Looks at how poetry and creative writing can provide a valuable outlet for people suffering from poor mental health.
Terms of engagement: reaching hard to reach adolescents
- Author:
- GRIFFITHS Mark
- Journal article citation:
- Young Minds Magazine, 62, January 2003, pp.23-26.
- Publisher:
- YoungMinds
Engaging adolescents in therapeutic work is a challenge for many services. Looks at what can be learned from published research on engagement.