How can I help?

David Harding-Price

Can the media be blamed for triggering a mass outbreak of ADHD? After watching some breakfast TV, Tony Gillam thinks they are at least partly to blame and reflects on the importance of enjoying a bit of peace and quiet

Tony Gillam

Paul Lefever gives a student’s perspective on spiritual care and the Care Programme Approach

Paul Lefever

Mental health matters

Research round-up

Paul Rogers

Diary

Theatre Review

Lesley Warner

The Rise of Mental Health Nursing: A history of psychiatric care in Dutch Asylums 1890-1920

Peter Nolan

Art Therapy for Groups

Tony Gillam

Clinical Practice Guidelines in Mental Health

Ben Thomas

Practical Management of Dementia

Barry Aveyard

A community treatment paradigm for serious and enduring mental illness in north west Wales

Keith Saycell, John Sims, Jackie Hugheston-Roberts, Kate Hazeldine, Andy Lancelot, Phil Underwood, Hefin Williams

Developments in treating post traumatic stress disorder using a cognitive behavioural therapy model

Dave Hitt, Neil J Kitchiner, Jonathan I Bisson

Rediscovering the ‘social’ in the biopsychosocial perspective

Christopher Littlejohn

Practising with passion

Ian McMillann

Til Wykes tells Ian McMillan how the recently formed Mental Health Research Network (MHRN) is helping researchers to think big

Til Wykes

Networking

Media power

Peter Kalve

People

Gelsemium sempervirens (Yellow Jasmine)

Yaso Shan

Care can help offenders to reoffend

Over 2,000 people in UK with DSPD

New DSPD unit at Rampton must not become ‘warehouse’

Ian McMillan

Racial divide widening for service users

Pressure mounts for changes to way staff handle violence at work

Ward manager’s role crucial in creating positive ward ‘atmosphere’

Staff misjudge ‘insight’ of patients

Acknowledging service users’ expertise vital to success of inpatient initiative

Recruitment crisis among psychiatrists opens up opportunities for nurses

Ian McMillann

Action needed on self harm

Lessons learnt from Sarah Lawson death

CPNs praised for showing respect to service users

News

Toolkit launched to tackle dual diagnosis

News

Inpatients still fear for their safety on wards

Ian McMillann

News in brief

Editorial

Ian McMillan