Face to face

Thelma Agnew

Artistic activities can improve patients’ self-esteem

Ada Hui, Theodore Stickley

Suicidal behaviour among psychiatric inpatients

Karthik Thangavelu

Carer burden in schizophrenia: considerations for nursing practice

Neil Small, Joanne Harrison, Robert Newell

The diminishing right to life

David Hewitt

Wellbeing of military mental health staff

Mathew McCauley, Jamie Hacker Hughes, Helen Liebling-Kalifani

Journal scan

On the web

Noticeboard

Diary

Compassion and caring in nursing

Nigel Leaney

Mental health and well-being in later life

Hywel Thomas

Therapeutic relationships with offenders

Barrie Green

A question of support

Finding the right terminology

Melba Wilson

Risk assessment

Chris Hart

Efficiency savings may place too much pressure on services

Nurse awarded funding for carers’ workshops

Report finds inappropriate use of Mental Health Act

Colin Parish

Patients have to wait for more than a year to access talking therapies

Strategic framework devised for nurses in Northern Ireland

College seeks ideas for protecting services and improving care

Military personnel in Iraq show signs of psychological distress

News in brief

Raising quality just got harder

Colin Parish