Face to face

Carol Davis

Delivery of mental health training to nurses overseas

Mary-Jo Doyle

Improving the efficiency of referral and assessment pathways

Angus Gartshore, Elizabeth Clark, Paul Lelliott

Use of smoking cessation therapies in adult mental health settings

Valerie Ebbens, Sue Crane

Reducing clients’ reliance on long-term sickness benefits

Debra Brewin, Sophia Papageorgis, Kirsty Collins

Post-traumatic stress disorder and psychosis

Ioanna Katsounari

Journal scan

Noticeboard

Diary

Help yourself to happiness by liberating your inner child

Simon Daniels

Searching for the ‘blue blob’

Ian Hulatt

Back to the dark age?

Chris Hart

Modern management of perinatal psychiatric disorders

Peter Nolan

Overcoming body image problems including body dysmorphic disorder

Hilary Mairs

Staff support groups in the helping professions: principles, practice and pitfalls

Neil Gordon

Help available for clients who are struggling to settle debts

Charlie Callanan

Therapist to artist

Patient who waived right to privacy will remain in broadmoor

Nurses should lead service reform, says think tank

Colin Parish

Campaign launched to address patients’ chief concerns about care

More young people in Scotland detained under mental health laws

Use of narrative verdicts by coroners makes suicide figures unreliable

News in brief

Changing public perceptions

Colin Parish