Improving quality of life for adolescents with psychosis

Andrew Hunter, Annmarie Grealish, Maura Dowling

Schizophrenia: what’s in a name?

Michiel Louter

How expert nurses communicate with acutely psychotic patients

Len Bowers, Geoff Brennan, Gary Winship, Christina Theodoridou

Collaborative model for end-stage dementia care

Stephanie Lindsay, Miriam Coyle, Barbara Dunster, Victoria Traynor

Recreational drug use among men who have sex with men

Service users’ views on safety in psychiatric wards

Befriending schemes may benefit people with depressive symptoms

Alan Simpson

Noticeboard

Diary

Mental health – from policy to practice

David Harding-Price

The meaning of madness

Phill Lister

Book review

Jan Dewing

Really old, like forty five

Philip Brecht

A paradoxical relationship

Kerry Stott

The power of emotion

Nicola Lester

A manifesto to inspire 21st century nurses

Hilary McCallion

Early intervention services offer a lifeline to young people experiencing psychosis

Paul Dinsdale

Obituary

Ros Alstead

Targets and shortage of beds put pressure on acute nurses

Ministers fear recession may reverse falling suicide rates

Colin Parish

Clinical supervision ‘can inoculate staff against stress’

Expanded Admiral nursing service starts work with dementia carers in Yorkshire

Best practice guidelines aim to strengthen psychological therapies expansion plans

Colin Parish

Experts call on media to end glamorisation of underweight models

Advice on relational security targets staff in secure settings

New centre to focus on care of children and vulnerable adults

Star Wards mastermind meets the queen to receive her OBE

News in brief

A matter of life and death

Colin Parish