People with dementia and their carers are best placed to decide where money needs to be spent. But dementia workers often lack the personal effectiveness needed to get people and systems to listen, argues Professor June Andrews

June Andrews

Who is it that can tell me who I am? the journal of a psychotherapist

Mike Smith

Suicide junkie

Paul Crawford

Sod it – the depression virus

Mike Smith

Ethical issues in dementia care: making difficult decisions

John Keady

Practical psychiatry of old age

John Keady

Poppy Shakespeare

Charlotte Baker

Mental health promotion: a lifespan approach

Mary Chambers

Reducing dementia-related aggression through staff education

Simon Houghton

Web review

Psychiatric aftercare and suicide risk

Simon Houghton

Best practice in use of PRN medication

Simon Houghton

Social skills treatments for children with autism

Review of the month

Lesley Warner

Remembering Albert Ellis

Philip James

Hope regained light at the end of the tunnel

Peter Nolan

Women’s mental health in prison: developing an integrated care pathway

Jerry Warr, Clifford Hoyle

Dialectical behaviour therapy for young offenders: lessons from the USA, Part 2

Tim McDougall, Carys Jones

Chronic resistant atypical pedagogical syndrome: a new disorder

Clarke Liam

Everyone’s business: developing a personality disorder service

Ruth Hitchcock, Jan Isbell, Jane Loseby

Neil Carr, chief executive of South Staffordshire and Shropshire Foundation Trust, discusses the importance of choice and his plans for the continued success of the trust

Mental health act powers

Peter campbell

Advocates or jailers?

Louise Pembroke

Whistle blowing

The PTSD timebomb

Yaso Shan

People

Diary

Good in parts

Daniel Allen

A meeting of like minds

Jennifer Trueland

High approval rating for community services

Older people get ‘inferior services’, inquiry reveals

Focus on sexual consent issues

MIND uses art to mark 60 years

Depression is top health risk, says WHO study

Paul Dinsdale

Editorial

Cris Allen