Face to face

Carol Davis

Time to re-evaluate the therapeutic relationship

Syd Hiskey

How the Productive Ward scheme gives staff more time to care

Chris Lennard

Assessing the risk of aggression and violence among service users

Angus Sturrock

Was the introduction of single-sex wards a mistake?

Gideon Felton, Suheib Abu-Kmeil

Effective communication with patients who are deaf

Neel Halder

Explaining suicide: the role of drama

Orla McAlinden

Journal scan

Noticeboard

Diary

Talking ’bout a revolution

Ian Hulatt, Catherine Gamble

Mindfulness and the therapeutic relationship

Theodore Stickley

Decision-making, personhood and dementia: exploring the interface

Simon Burrow

Committed to the sane asylum: narratives on mental wellness and healing

Liam Clarke

Clinical manual for management of PTSD

Paul Rogers

Coping with phobias and panic

Manjit Ubhi

Overcoming anxiety, stress and panic – a five areas approach

Paul Rogers

Front line staff urged to take ‘whole family’ approach

Louise Hunt

A service user’s view of using cognitive behaviour therapy

Angela Morford

Talking therapy trialled for command hallucinations

Ian McMillan

Payments by results system undermines individualised care

Antidepressants put patients at greater risk of falling

Ward closure ‘bad for local community’

Jennifer Trueland

News in brief

NICE agrees to include depression indicators

Practitioner powers his way to gold medal

Helpline will enable staff to blow the whistle on poor standards

Finding the right system

Colin Parish