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The Mental Health & Social Care Current Awareness Bulletin is produced at
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News from all corners of
the world

Department of Health

Publication of MCA DOLS quarterly activity data

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National News

Drugs workers in Wales warn over new 'legal highs'

Warnings have been issued about the next wave of "legal highs", or drugs which do not fall
under the Misuse of Drugs Act

MMR doctor struck off register

The doctor who first suggested a link between MMR vaccinations and autism is to be struck off
the medical register

Senior ADCS figure calls for 'welfare model' in children's services

'Children's services resources misspent,' says Colin Green

£20m for disabled children's respite breaks as Child Trust Fund axed
An extra 8,000 week long respite breaks for disabled children will be funded with savings from
axing the Child Trust Fund, the Treasury announced today

Young more lonely than the old, UK survey suggests

Loneliness is more prevalent among the young than those past retirement age, a survey
suggests, amid profound changes in the way we live and interact

Alcohol prescriptions on the rise

The number of prescriptions given out to treat alcohol dependency has increased, figures for
England from the NHS Information centre show

Funding cuts a 'double-edged sword' for children's social care

The government's decision to lift the £1.7bn ring-fence on local authority funding in return for
£1.16bn savings has been called a "double-edged sword" for children's services

Police And Psychologists Team Up In Tracking The Habits Of Criminal Minds

Research conducted by psychologists at the University of Leicester and by Northamptonshire
Police has found that criminals have their own distinctive 'local haunts' when committing crime

Baby P social workers temporarily suspended

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 The social workers who admitted failing to safeguard Peter Connelly have been suspended
from the register.

Social workers 'powerless' on child neglect

More than one-third of social workers and police officers feel "powerless" to intervene in cases
of suspected child neglect, according to research by Action for Children

John Suchet's heartache over wife's dementia

Last year, former ITN presenter John Suchet announced his wife had dementia. He thought no-
one would take much notice.

Prison health 'not good enough' despite overhaul

Prison healthcare is still not good enough - four years after it was revamped to bring it up to
NHS standards

Mental health research funding urged

Mental health is an often ignored area of research that needs more investment, experts said

Regional disparities found in progress on personalisation

There are wide regional variations in English councils' progress towards meeting a series of
personalisation targets, a survey has found

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International News

New Survey Reveals Positive And Respectful Relationship Among Psychiatrists,

Patients With Schizophrenia And Their Caregivers
US: According to a new survey, 80 percent of patients with schizophrenia, a chronic, severe
and disabling brain disorder, say their psychiatrists do well or very well in treating them with
courtesy and respect

New Data On Invega(R) Sustenna(R) And Risperdal(R) Consta(R) For Schizophrenia To

Be Presented At Major Psychiatry Meeting
New data on INVEGA® SUSTENNA® (paliperidone palmitate), a long-acting injectable
medicine for schizophrenia, and new data on RISPERDAL® CONSTA® (risperidone long-
acting therapy), also an injectable medicine to treat schizophrenia, will be presented next week
at a major psychiatry meeting in New Orleans

The man accused of setting up false suicide pacts

A former nurse has appeared in court in the US charged with two counts of aiding suicide over
the internet

Psychological Dimensions Of Fear In Adolescence And Youth

The study is focused on the normative fears that are an adaptive reaction and ensure the
surviving of the person

Study Evaluated Vyvanse® (lisdexamfetamine Dimesylate) Capsules CII Efficacy And

Safety In Adolescents With ADHD
Shire plc announced the results of a study evaluating the safety and efficacy of Vyvanse®
(lisdexamfetamine dimesylate) Capsules CII for the treatment of ADHD in adolescents aged 13

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New Survey Data Shows Only One In Five Young Adults Believes That People Are Caring
And Sympathetic To Those With Mental Health Problems
US: According to a national survey by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services
Administration (SAMHSA) there are an estimated 9.8 million adults aged 18 or older living with
serious mental illness

Clinical Data, Inc. Announces FDA Acceptance Of New Drug Application For Vilazodone
For The Treatment Of Major Depressive Disorder
Clinical Data, Inc. , announced that the U.S. FDA has accepted for filing the Company's New
Drug Application for vilazodone for the treatment of major depressive disorder

Snails yield drug addiction clue

In an unusual experiment, scientists have used pond snails to study the effects of
methamphetamine, better known as crystal meth, on the brain

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Rare Disorder Has People Convinced They Smell Bad

Sufferers often isolate themselves, consider suicide, study finds

Mental health nursing from a solution focused perspective

Solution focused therapy is a relatively new and increasingly popular model of brief intervention
in mental health care

An Underlying Cause for Psychopathic Behavior?

Psychopaths are known to be characterized by callousness, diminished capacity for remorse,
and lack of empathy

Addictions
Substance abuse, alcoholism,

DocGuide TopAbstracts in Addictions

Heroin therapy call for 'chronic addicts'

Injectable "medical" grade heroin should be offered under supervision to the most hardened
addicts, say UK researchers

Brain's Response To Alcoholism Cues Reduced By Opioid-Blocking Medication, McLean

Hospital Study Finds
Researchers l have produced the first evidence that the opioid blocker extended-release
injectable naltrexone (XR-NTX) is able to reduce the brain's response to cues that may cause
alcoholics to relapse

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Flexible Treatment Intervention Associated With Greater Improvement In Anxiety

Symptoms
An intervention in primary care settings that allowed a choice of cognitive behavior therapy,
medication, or both, along with computer-assisted treatment support for patients with common
anxiety disorders, resulted in greater improvement in anxiety

DocGuide TopAbstracts in Anxiety

Effectiveness of therapeutic massage for generalized anxiety disorder: a randomized

controlled trial
Although massage is one of the most popular complementary and alternative medical (CAM)
treatments for anxiety, its effectiveness has never been rigorously evaluated for a diagnosed
anxiety disorder

Dementia
Alzheimer’s

New Path for Novel Alzheimer's Therapies

Researchers have found a new Alzheimer's-related mechanism that could give rise to the
development of new therapies against this disease

Moderate Drinking May Protect Brain From Alzheimer's

Non-smoking women seem to benefit the most, study finds

Genetic Mutation Associated With Famous Alzheimer Patient May Have Been Identified
scientists propose that it is highly possible that Auguste Deter, the first identified Alzheimer
disease patient, carried the N141I presenilin-2 mutation-the same one as in present-day U.S.
families descended from German emigrants who settled near the river Volga in Russia

Integrating unmet needs into dementia health-related quality of life research and care:
Introduction of the Hierarchy Model of Needs in Dementia
To make an inventory of needs assessment instruments in dementia, to explore the interaction
between unmet needs and health-related quality of life (HRQoL) and to relate these to the
conceptual model of Maslow's Hierarchy of needs in order to design a dementia-specific model

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Depression
Bipolar disorders

Obesity In Teen Girls May Lead To Depressive Symptoms

Researchers have found that obesity is a risk factor for depressive symptoms, but not for clinical
depression

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Treatment Significantly Improves Depression Symptoms
New data presented suggests a benefit to combining L-methylfolate, a prescription medical food
called Deplin®, with an antidepressant at the start of treatment

Bipolar disorder patients show significant morbidity after episodes

Patients with bipolar disorder spend 11 months on average in a morbid state of illness in the 2
years following their first major lifetime episode

Switching Medications and Continuing Treatment Could Help Teens With Severe
Depression, Study Suggests
More than one-third of teenagers with treatment-resistant depression became symptom-free six
months after switching their medication or combining a medicine switch with cognitive
behavioral therapy

Online chart helps bipolar disorder patients log mood

Patients with bipolar disorder are more likely to regularly fill out an online mood chart than the
standard paper-based version, and generally give more detail about their current condition
online

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Allergies Might Trigger Depression

Study found mood of those with sensitivities worsened when exposed to allergens

Strong depression and anxiety covariation in bipolar disorder

Researchers have found that anxiety is strongly and persistently associated with depressive
symptoms in patients with bipolar disorder

Glutamate neurotransmission elevated in bipolar disorder

Elevated cortical glutamate levels in patients with bipolar disorder are likely to be due to
increased glutamate neurotransmission rather than alterations in glutamate metabolism or
cycling, say UK researchers

Dual Diagnosis

Cannabis use increases psychosis-related outcomes

Researchers report evidence from a sibling pair analysis that supports the association between
early cannabis use and psychosis-related outcomes

Eating Disorders

Therapeutic relationship: Developing a new understanding for nurses and care workers
within an eating disorder unit
The establishment of a positive therapeutic relationship has been widely acknowledged
internationally as an intrinsic part of therapy and caring services, even healing and restorative in
its own right

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 Brain Changes with Anorexia Can Be Reversed
As many realize, anorexia nervosa is a serious eating disorder of excessive weight loss caused
by relentless dieting

Learning Disabilities

Gene Variants Lead to Autism and Mental Retardation: Inner Structure of Nerve
Synapses Defective in Patients
Researchers have discovered previously unknown mutations in autistic and mentally impaired
patients in what is known as the SHANK2 gene, a gene that is partially responsible for linking
nerve cells

Cognitive deficits and associated neurological complications in individuals with Down's

syndrome
Improvements in medical interventions for people with Down's syndrome have led to a
substantial increase in their longevity

Obsessive Compulsive
Disorders

Cognitive-Behavior Therapy for Compulsive Checking in OCD

There is substantial evidence for the effectiveness of psychological treatments for OCD, and
various approaches have been widely recommended

A randomised controlled trial of cognitive behavioural treatment for obsessive

compulsive disorder in children and adolescents
Cognitive behaviour therapy for young people with obsessive compulsive disorder has become
the treatment of first choice

Barriers to treatment and service utilization in an internet sample of individuals with

obsessive-compulsive symptoms
Despite the increasing dissemination of treatment for Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder in the
past decade, the majority of individuals with OCD are not receiving appropriate treatment.

Waitlist-controlled trial of cognitive behavior therapy for hoarding disorder

This study investigated a multicomponent cognitive behavioral treatment for hoarding based on
a model proposed by Frost and colleagues

Post Traumatic
Stress Disorder

Role and treatment of early maladaptive schemas in Vietnam Veterans with PTSD
The role of early maladaptive schemas in understanding and treating post-traumatic stress
disorder was investigated

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Everyday Gratitude As A Booster Shot For Romantic Relationships

Our busy lives sometimes feel like they are spinning out of control, and we lose track of the little
things we can do to add meaning to our lives and make our loved ones feel appreciated

Intelligent Therapies With Virtual Reality For The Psychological Treatment Of Patients
Suffering From Fibromyalgia
Researchers have developed a new therapy based on the use of mobile devices and virtual
reality for the psychological treatment of patients suffering from fibromyalgia

Schizophrenia

Emotional processing deficits questioned in schizophrenia

Schizophrenia patients with relatively preserved intellectual ability show no deficits in identifying
facial emotion expressions compared with mentally healthy controls

Paranoid tendencies may evolve in prodromal phase of schizophrenia

Patients with a first episode of psychosis (FEP) and those considered to be at ultra-high risk
(UHR) for psychosis show an attribution bias towards perceived hostility in others

DocGuide TopAbstracts in Schizophrenia

Gender differences in schizophrenia may extend to Chinese patients

Gender differences in patients with schizophrenia may not be dependent on cultural differences,
suggest researchers

Social Work

Coercion in the Community: A Situated Approach to the Examination of Ethical

Challenges for Mental Health Social Workers
Increasingly, mental health social workers in the United Kingdom and elsewhere in the world
are employing coercive interventions with clients

Being Assessed under the 1983 Mental Health Act—Can it Ever be Ethical?
Malcolm Kinney has worked in social care since 1986

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Books, Conferences,
Websites & Journal Tocs

NEW PUBLICATIONS
Books and reports hot of the press
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Managing Social Anxiety : Workbook A Cognitive-behavioral Therapy Approach: 2nd

Revised edition

Understanding Behavior Disorders: A Contemporary Behavioral Perspective

Treating Depression in Primary Care

Understanding Bipolar Disorder: A Developmental Psychopathology Perspective

Next Generation Antidepressants: Moving Beyond Monoamines to Discover Novel

Treatment Strategies for Mood Disorders

The Psychology of Pessimism

Community Psychology: New Developments

Eating Disorders in Athletes

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