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Not a role for family doctors

01 September 2010

Mental Health Practice

Opinion

‘FEAR, ANGER and grief’ is how Christina (not her real name) describes the overwhelming feelings she was experiencing a year after a devastating life event. ‘This is...

Suicide watch

01 March 2011

Mental Health Practice

Opinion

THE SENIOR manager of a large mental health trust asked me recently how his organisation could reduce the suicide rate among its in-patient and community care...

Humane Prisons

01 June 2007

Mental Health Practice

Book Review

In the foreword to this thought-provoking and thoroughly readable volume, the US psychologist Craig Haney writes that the ‘sober and realistic analysts’ who make up...

Agents for change

01 September 2009

Mental Health Practice

Opinion

AN ARTICLE in The Observer newspaper in July carried the headline ‘More deaths feared on mental health wards’ and summarised the recent Mental Health Act Commission...

The power of words

01 March 2010

Mental Health Practice

Opinion

I ONCE attended a poetry workshop for mental health service users and survivors. I was struck by how reading, or being read to, can be a powerful force for good in...

Voices -Let’s work on the bad language

01 March 2009

Mental Health Practice

General article

I recently had the privilege of facilitating mental health awareness training for some healthcare professionals in the acute sector. The course included a discussion...

Email-interview

01 December 2005

Mental Health Practice

Email interview

Is this guidance finally going to solve the problem of violence in mental health settings? Violence in any health setting could never be completely eradicated. But I...

My mental health

01 December 2003

Mental Health Practice

Opinion

I am not an optimist. Looking on the bright side has never come naturally to me. While I wouldn’t say I am a ‘doom and gloom’ merchant, my usual demeanour, it has to...

The human rights act. a practical guide for nurses

01 July 2001

Mental Health Practice

Book Review

The Human Rights Act 1998 has been with us for a year or so and despite practitioners and services having had some two years to prepare for it coming on to the...

The enigma of violence: Developing a therapeutic response

01 February 2002

Mental Health Practice

A&S Science

With around 60,000 reported assaults against NHS staff in any given year, the vast majority taking place in mental health settings, plus an unknown but significant...

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