Barker’s beat

Phil Barker

Self-wounding: a literature review

Valerie Sharkey

Ways of understanding: how our ‘states of mind’ affect our thinking and creativity in networking

Danny Ho

Diary

Substance Abuse: a patient centered approach

Prashant Phillips

Mood and Anxiety Disorders in Children and Adolescents: a psychopharmacological approach

Tim McDougall

Family Therapy in Focus

Patrick Callaghan

Descriptions and Prescriptions: values, mental disorders and the DSMs

Mike Smith

Changing Minds

Peter Campbell

Substance Misuse in Psychosis

Mark Holland

Forgotten suffering

Amanda Wells

Setting up a successful patients’ council

Gavin Garman, Rebecca Kelly, Sean Waldon

Involving users in mental health services

John Hopton, Peter W Nolan

Dave Richards has just been appointed as Professor of Mental Health Nursing at the University of Manchester. Ian McMillan finds out what makes him tick

Good reason for non-adherence

Louise Pembroke

Looking for answers rooted in evidence

Peter DF Simpson

Drowning, not waving?

Ines Garcia

Ian McMillan asks two of the key figures behind Inside Outside to spell out the implications for staff

Focus on correcting inequalities not on ethnic differences, urges Sashidharan

Mental health services must adapt to population changes

Ian McMillann

People

News

Unison: ‘investigate sexual abuse claims’

News in brief

Services must play ‘catch up’ with rest of NHS

NIMHE report finds services rife with institutional racism

Ian McMillann

Editorial

Ian McMillan