The importance of measuring blood pressure in mental health care

Anne Pegram, Jacqueline Bloomfield

Dual diagnosis: training needs and attitudes of nursing staff

Jayne Moore

Cigarette smoking cessation using family interventions

Robert Joseph, Catherine Gamble

Tracking patients on leave from a secure setting

Dave Hearn

The theorist-practitioner gap: bringing the two sides closer together

Lyn Gardner, Gary Rolfe, Peter Ghroum

Journal scan

Noticeboard

Diary

Tick-box exercise

Bronwen Williams

Borderline Personality Disorder – New Reasons for Hope

Helena McCourt

Responding in Mental Health – Substance Use

Mark James

Counselling and Psychotherapy for Families in Times of Illness and Death

Carole Evans

Clinical Manual for Treatment of Schizophrenia

Hilary Mairs

Team spirit of ‘the beautiful game’ helps service users to socialise

Fabio Zucchelli

Top nurse lays down the law at the healthcare watchdog

Colin Parish

Guide to assessment of suicide risk is launched online

Psychotropic drugs doubled for people living in care homes

‘Lifestyle diseases’ lead to higher mortality rates

Colin Parish

News in brief

Watchdog director is sympathetic to pressure nurses are under

Oscar winning performance has ‘silver lining’

Breaking the cycle

Colin Parish