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Putting symptoms in a box: the Hough brothers’ story

01 February 2004

Mental Health Practice

Users’ views

Phil and Simon Hough are active members in mental health planning and development groups both locally and county-wide in the north-west of England. Simon and his...

Prescribing new ways of working

01 March 2006

Mental Health Practice

Prescribing

Recent policy developments have allowed suitably trained mental health nurses to prescribe and supply medication as supplementary prescribers in order to improve...

a weighty problem: monitoring the side effects of medication

01 December 2006

Learning Disability Practice

A&S Science

Despite growing evidence that neuroleptic medication can trigger weight gain, many services fail to ensure that people with learning disabilities and mental health...

Positive approaches to schizophrenia

01 December 2006

Mental Health Practice

General

The term ‘schizophrenia’ is problematic and stigmatised. One dictionary defines schizophrenia as a disorder ‘involving a breakdown in the relationship between...

Recovery from mental illness in China and India

01 November 2006

Mental Health Practice

General

There are many similarities in the characteristics and treatment of mental illness across countries. Human behaviour considered to be abnormal in Britain is also...

Psychopharmacological adverse effects

01 March 2008

Mental Health Practice

General

There have been many advances in the care of people with mental health problemsin recent years. Those at the forefront of the changes have called for a reduction in...

Reducing relapse in psychosis through medication management

01 June 2008

Mental Health Practice

General

The concept of relapse is a complex, multi-dimensional phenomenon that is not uniformly defined in the research literature (Simonelli 2005). It is, however, commonly...

Nurse prescribing in mental health

29 March 2006

Nursing Standard

Art & Science

This article presents a suggested clinical management plan for a community psychiatric nurse who is prescribing for older adults with mental health needs. The scope...

Bipolar the nurse’s role disorder:

01 October 2006

Mental Health Practice

Bipolar disorder

The NICE guideline on bipolar disorder should be read by all nurses who work with people with bipolar disorder. Depending on whether they are working with children,...

The changing role of the community psychiatric nurse

01 September 2005

Mental Health Practice

Community mental health nursing

Received wisdom has it that community mental health care was made possible by a convergence of historical factors, some socio-logical, some biomedical. The...