Service users and their animals: considerations for mental health professionals

Bronwen Williams

Mental health nurses’ perspectives on psychiatric advance directives

Conor Quinlan, Alice Coffey

How to minimise the effects of dysphagia in people with mental health problems

Carol Harris

Use of seclusion in psychiatric intensive care units

Janet Kai Ling Wong, Elizabeth Jane Shaw, Sarah Proctor, Mike Caulfield

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We need to build ‘stronger’ children

Laurence Baldwin

Banish Your Body Image Thief

Hilary Mairs

Sitting Together: Essential Skills for Mindfulness-based Psychotherapy

Catherine Gamble

Nursing in Criminal Justice Services

Barrie Green

Students urged to focus on health promotion and lobby for equality

Colin Parish

Bold new approach tackles stigma in different cultures

Vic Motune

TV comedy about a community psychiatric nurse’s work has pathos and laughs

Taskforce’s improvements will benefit millions of lives

Colin Parish

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Report highlights GPs’ lack of confidence in perinatal care

Review prompts extra funds for children’s mental heath care

A boost for children’s care

Colin Parish