Face to face

Thelma Agnew

Introduction of meditation to meet service users’ spiritual needs

Pamela Fisher

Delayed discharge and lack of housing for inpatients

Michael Corbluth

Recovery-focused practice in mental health services

Trish Reynolds, Laura O’Hanlon

Behavioural activation in the treatment of depression

Simon Houghton, Joe Curran, David Ekers

Assessing hearing ability in inpatient settings

Colin Doyle, Helen Tetley, Jan Roach, Philip Sugarman, Geoff Dickens

Journal scan

Noticeboard

Diary

Getting the vote out

The dilemmas of private practice

Nicola Lester

The child surveillance handbook

Laurence Baldwin

Madness in post-1945 British and American fiction

Liam Clarke

The dark threads

Peter Campbell

Still alice

Sharon Harding-Price

Doctoring the mind: why psychiatric treatments Fail

Mike Smith

Feel it yourself

Nursing shifts are not being filled

Guidance for professionals who work with offenders

Colin Parish

Unfilled shift rotas increase pressure on nursing teams

Residential staff urged to make facilities in Scotland ‘smoke free’

Mental health nurses shortlisted for Nurse Awards

Depression linked to bipolar disorder

News in brief

Editorial April 2011: The fundamentals of care

Colin Parish