Success by degrees

Thelma Agnew

The role of the clinical studies officer in project recruitment

Jessica Price

Stepped care: developing a service for people with mild symptoms

Jennifer Russell, Liz Rafferty, Anne Joice

Setting up a reading group

Lindsey Dyer

Using psychosocial interventions in chronic illness

Mick Fleming, Graham Sloan, Colin Martin

How disclosure of diagnosis affects social functioning

Substance use and mental wellbeing in young people

Cognitive outcome and efficacy of ECT in major depression

Noticeboard

Diary

Talking with acutely psychotic people

Russell Ashmore

Person-centred counselling for people with dementia: making sense of the self

John Keady

Gainful employment

Shaun McNeil

A casualty of policy

Chris Hart

Convergence of services on track to raise standards of psychiatric care for offenders

Web hosts urged to remove images of self-harming acts

Footballers get the ball rolling to help returning veterans

Former tsar to head initiative on health and criminal justice

Study aims to assess value of peer support following discharge

News in brief

Psychiatric services for ex-military personnel get £2m funding boost

Good practice and innovation must be shared more widely

Jennifer Trueland

Palestinian academics in UK to lay groundwork for joint research on community health issues

Experts predict social and policy changes over next 25 years

Report cites inequities in care for minority ethnic populations

A simple idea is often the best

Colin Parish