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A service user reflects on a journey to hopefulness

10 October 2012

Mental Health Practice

Feature

In this article, the author recounts her long struggle in seeking the right help to stop self-harming and manage the memories of traumatic experiences. It was only...

Cancer of the connective tissue: STS

01 July 2005

Cancer Nursing Practice

Clinical

This summer NICE will be seeking consultation on its final draft of guidance for a group of relatively uncommon tumours known as sarcomas. This form of cancer can...

Evaluation of borderline personality disorder awareness workshops for service users and carers

09 October 2015

Mental Health Practice

Art & Science

The provision of borderline personality disorder (BPD) awareness workshops was a direct result of consultations with service users and carers in Somerset, which...

Psychoeducation intervention for people with bipolar disorder

01 June 2010

Mental Health Practice

Feature

Bipolar disorder is a recurrent disorder of mood and behaviour characterised by episodes of depression alternating with episodes of mania or hypomania (hypomania is...

Managing the child with gastroenteritis

02 June 1999

Nursing Standard

CPD

This article discusses the treatment of children with gastroenteritis and takes account of the current evidence based guidelines for management.

Dental services for children with autism spectrum disorder

26 March 2014

Learning Disability Practice

Art & Science

Aim To identify what parents perceive to be good practice in the care of children with autism in dental settings and to highlight difficulties in accessing dental...

Personality disorder: time for a new approach?

01 July 1999

Mental Health Practice

Feature

As a coordinator of a criminal justice mental health team, I believe acute mental health services face a fundamental Issue. How do these services ensure that...

Mad, bad, or scared?

01 May 2001

Mental Health Practice

Research & practice

Jenny Webb, aged 28, had for the past three months experienced intrusive images of a child’s torso being stabbed. Not surprisingly, she found this extremely...

When being bipolar gets you the job: service user research

01 October 2009

Mental Health Practice

Feature

Service user Debbie Mayes has worked as a mental health researcher for 20 years. She explains the benefits and pitfalls of the role, and suggests that more service...

Trichotillomania (Hair-pulling): Nature, assessment and treatment

01 October 2001

Mental Health Practice

CPD

Trichotillomania is characterised by recurrent hair-pulling, leading to noticeable hair loss, which in turn leads to a wide range of cognitive, behavioural and...