Face to face

Christian Duffin

Music therapy and social inclusion

Murray Cathro, Adam Devine

A model to help bereaved individuals understand the grief process

Margaret Baier, Ruth Buechsel

Service user involvement in nursing students’ training

Amanda Blackhall, Tim Schafer, Lyn Kent, Maxine Nightingale

Improving services offered by GPs to patients with drug addiction

Anna Marie Felice, Christos Kouimtsidis

A life story toolkit to support recovery from mental distress

Helen Moya, Penny Arnold

Journal scan

Notice board

Diary

Pulling together

Julie Wisely

Fighting ageism

Eleanor Masters

Performance review

Lesley Warner

Cognitive-behavior therapy for severe mental illness

Hilary Mairs

Scotland’s mental health strategy builds on its prevention agenda

Colin Parish

National standards framework unveiled by health department

Colin Parish

Law change in Wales will mean better access to services

More must be done to wean addicts off opioid substitutes

Suicides increase among patients treated at home

Colin Parish

Genes could reveal risk of side effects from antipsychotic drugs

Booklet that helps service users to take control of their lives

Audit shows that use of antipsychotic drugs for older patients has fallen

News in brief

Tools that add to practice

Colin Parish