Going public

Values of people with schizophrenia

Psycho-social interventions following self-harm

Diary

Solution focused nursing: rethinking practice

Paul Crawford

Overcoming Anxiety Self-Help Course (3 parts)

Kevin Gournay

Ethnicity and the dementias

Johanna Clarke

Social Divisions

Liam Clarke

Child and adolescent mental health nursing

Laurence Baldwin

Web review

Effects of a tobacco ban on inpatients

Simon Houghton

Straight Ahead

Alison Anthony

Person-Centred Therapy

Carole Evans

Mad tales from bollywood

Manjit Kaur Ubhi

The Brain Manual

David Harding-Price

In a personal round-up of the highlights from last month’s RCN mental health nursing event, Cris Allen takes a tilt at conference titles that over-egg the pudding. Despite some reservations, though, he found plenty of substance to get his teeth into

Cris Allen

My mental health

Maitreyabandhu

Practise what you preach: helping service users find dignity through work

Peter Nolan

Nurse preceptorship in a high secure unit

Christopher Wood

Clinical supervision and the use of structured homework

Patricia McBride

Physical health: how to minimise the risks faced by patients with schizophrenia

David Law

Target practice: are children’s mental health services up to scratch?

Tim McDougall

Treatment of acute PTSD with brief CBT

News in brief

People

Let’s scrunch the numbers

K Sherrington

Interact

Interact

Down here on earth

Jonathan Maher

The vanishing act

Daniel Allenn

Spend! Spend! Spend!

Daniel Allenn

Evidence of ethnic divide in personality disorder

Innovation is helping the treatment of personality disorder to go mainstream

Agencies outside psychiatric world offer ‘third way’ of treating PD

Ian McMillann

Scots counting the cost of living on benefits

Scotland’s plan sets out 14 commitments in overhaul

Ian McMillann

Odds stacked against job seekers

Wear the ‘badge of inclusion’

News in brief

Nurse of the year award winners

Supporting role nurse of the year award winners is on target

Action plan to promote better understanding of bme patients

Ian McMillann

Campaigners welcome exclusions to mental health bill at house of lords

Ian McMillann

News in brief

Editorial

Ian McMillan