VoicesA-lthough progress is being made in improving the quality and safety of care in services, good practice remains patchy says Ben Thomas

Ben Thomas

Web review

Coping strategies for voices

Joseph Curran

Obsessions and intrusive thoughts

Joseph Curran

Treatments for complicated grief compared

Joseph Curran

Humane Prisons

Rick Tucker

Implementing Mental Health Promotion

Hywel Thomas

The Therapy Experience: How human kindness heals

Neil j kitchiner

How to master anxiety

Kevin Gournay

Heartlands emotional literacy cards (set of 44 emotional literacy cards)

Manjit Ubhi

Down syndrome and alzheimer’s disease

Robert Jenkins

My mental health

Supplementary prescribing and schizophrenia: a case study

Adrian Jones

Improving acute care: accreditation for inpatient wards

Norman Young, Helen Bennett, Elizabeth Moody

Support for staff following the suicide of a patient

Josephine Spencer

Using cognitive behavioural therapy to treat common mental health problems in primary care

Adrian Childs-Clarke

Working with voices: nurse-led delivery of psychosocial interventions

Peter Garwood

Daring to talk back

Mark Hayward, Rufus May

Conferences

Director’s cut

Hilary McCallion

Young carers’ needs

Jenny Frank

User participation

Simon Hardcastle

People

News

Ian McMillan

Safer acute wards

Accreditation: a useful tool for improvement

Real improvements will emerge from new forums

Jennifer Veitch

Daring to dream beyond targets

Safe havens, not acute wards, pave the way to recovery

Jennifer Veitch

Accentuate the positive

News in brief

Interactive learning programme is an all round ‘win-win’ situation

Daniel Allen

A walk in the park

Nurse-led study finds that regular checks reduce self harm

Government report calls for easier access to community care

Daniel Allen

News in brief

Editorial

Ian McMillan