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Assessment of prior learning: a practitioner’s guide

01 March 2003

Learning Disability Practice

Book Review

Recently, higher education institutions have been grappling with the challenge of widening student access, in line with government policy. This is particularly the...

Mental Health Services for Minority and Ethnic Children and Adolescents

01 November 2004

Mental Health Practice

Book Review

In recent years we have seen the introduction of legislation, and a number of policies and practice guidelines, which aim to promote race equality in mental health...

Schizophrenia and mood disorders: the new drug therapies in clinical practice

01 April 2001

Mental Health Practice

Book Review

On receiving this book, my initial response was to be impressed by the large number of international experts contributing to it. Particularly as over the years the...

Mental health medications for children

01 June 2006

Mental Health Practice

Book Review

Concerns have been raised in a number of countries regarding the dramatic increase in the use of mental health medications in children over recent years, despite the...

Instant Psychopharmacology. A Guide for the Non Medical Mental Health Professional

01 June 1999

Mental Health Practice

Book Review

This is one of a few books on drug treatment in psychiatry written for non-medical mental health workers. It is increasingly being recognised that effective drug...

Antipsychotic drug treatment

01 February 1998

Mental Health Practice

RCN continuing education

Partnership Working in Mental Health Care: The nursing dimension

01 November 2005

Mental Health Practice

Resources

It would be difficult to find a mental health policy document that does not include the need to involve service users in the delivery of care and in the planning and...

Drug treatment in psychiatry: a guide for the community mental health worker

01 July 1998

Mental Health Practice

Book Review

The view that only doctors need to know about psychiatric drugs is fast disappearing. There is a new approach that recognises that other members of the mental health...

Psychiatric Nursing Clinical Guide: Assessment Tools and Diagnosis

01 May 2001

Mental Health Practice

Book Review

This aim of this book is to provide practical guidance on psychiatric nursing assessment and care planning. The first part of the book presents an overview on...

Prescribing mental health medication: the practitioner’s guide

01 July 2004

Mental Health Practice

Book Review

In the UK nurses have recently had their role extended to include prescribing medicines both as independent and supplementary prescribers. There has been much debate...