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Ankle sprain: a literature search

01 June 2003

Emergency Nurse

Clinical

An internet and library literature search was undertaken to discover current best practice in ankle sprain management. A Medline search was undertaken for the terms...

Suicide-related behaviour: understanding, caring and therapeutic responses

01 March 2008

Mental Health Practice

Book Review

The very thing that makes this book an essential addition to any nurse’s bookshelf also makes it an intensely frustrating read. Though the author claims her book...

Doctoring the mind: why psychiatric treatments Fail

01 April 2011

Mental Health Practice

Book Review

INTENDED To be a more accessible version of Richard bentall’s previously published and well received academic research, this book proposes that the experiences of...

Mike’s musings

01 November 2002

Mental Health Practice

Opinion

Common mythology tells us that people who are mentally ill commit murders. Some organisations would have believe that these figures getting worse as unmedicated...

Social Capital and Mental Health

01 December 2006

Mental Health Practice

Book Review

The concept of social capital intrigued me when I began to read this book. Primarily, my sense of mystery was buried within the questions, what on earth is social...

Living with Schizophrenia

01 June 2009

Mental Health Practice

Book Review

THIS BOOK is written by two psychiatrists teaching in Oxford. It would have benefited from including a contribution from a person living with schizophrenia, but that...

Mike’s musings

01 December 2003

Mental Health Practice

Opinion

Eureka! I’ve worked it out. After much consideration and a nice cup of tea, I have managed to answer the ultimate question for those of us working in psychiatry –...

Community psychology

01 May 2005

Mental Health Practice

Book Review

This book aims to introduce the concept of community psychology, its historical evolution and its application primarily to students of community psychology, although...

Rethinking the DSM: a psychological perspective

01 March 2004

Mental Health Practice

Book Review

If you are interested in psychiatric classification (go on, admit it), then this is a ground-breaking book. This is because it proposes alternative ways of...

By their Own Young Hand

01 September 2006

Mental Health Practice

Resources

Suicide and self-harm among adolescents is becoming a big issue in health care, and this book aims to inform anyone with an interest in the phenomena about the issue...