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News from all corners of
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Department of Health

A guide to working with offenders with personality disorders

Consultation on the Offender Personality Disorder Pathway Implementation Plan

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National News

Charity's concern at alcohol-related hospital admission

The number of people admitted to hospital in the UK because of problem drinking could rise to
1.5 million a year by 2015, a charity says

Council cuts 'put more pressure on the NHS'

The NHS will have to deal with the fall-out from some of the cuts being announced by councils,
experts predict. They said elderly care, mental health and services for vulnerable young people
were the most at risk

Gambling problems on the increase in UK

Nearly three-quarters of adults in the UK engaged in gambling last year, a survey has
concluded

NSPCC finds one in five 11 to 17-year-olds have been abused

Almost one-fifth of 11 to 17-year-olds across the UK have been severely abused or neglected in
childhood, findings released by the NSPCC today reveal

Diversion From Custody Makes Business Sense, Say Charities And Psychiatrists
Diverting offenders with mental health problems from short prison sentences to community
alternatives costs much less and is more likely to rehabilitate them, according to figures

One-fifth of social care providers expect to close next year

One in five social care providers expects to go out of business next year as a result of council
cuts to their fees

Children reveal little faith in family courts

Children involved in family court proceedings have been left with little faith in family justice,
research has revealed, with half believing courts never make the right decisions for them

Elderly 'to pay more for social care'

The government has been accused of penalising the most vulnerable in society by campaigners

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East Berkshire mental health beds set for Reading move

East Berkshire is due to be left without mental health in-patient services in a bid to save money

Tough love for troubled families

Do families in crisis need 'love' rather than distant professionals? A new approach in Swindon
has torn up the rule book with impressive results

More support needed for offenders with mental health problems, Sir Keith Pearson says
in Centre for Mental Health lecture
Too many people end up in the criminal justice system as a result of unmet health need, said
Chair of the National Advisory Group for Health and Criminal Justice Sir Keith Pearson

Warning of 'back door' fees for social care staff

Registration fees for social care staff in England could be introduced "through the back door" if
the government goes ahead with a plan to install a voluntary regulation system, sector leaders
have warned

Majority of pharmacists 'lack dementia knowledge'

Just one in three pharmacists has sufficient knowledge of dementia to provide advice to patients

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International News

Mental Health Of Obese Children Is Primary Concern, Nursing Researcher Says

The mental health of obese children should be a primary focus of researchers studying
childhood obesity

Leading The Way In Global Mental Health Development

The University of Melbourne's Centre for International Mental Health is leading the way in
addressing a desperately needed and often overlooked area of aid: mental health, by becoming
the first University to head the Secretariat of the Movement for Global Mental Health

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Making Sure Physical Health Is Not Forgotten In People With Serious Mental Health
Conditions
People with severe mental illness have lives 16-25 years shorter than does the general
population, but in these patients coronary heart disease, not suicide, is the major cause of death

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 Addictions
Substance abuse, alcoholism,

New Study Finds No Cognitive Impairment Among Ecstasy Users

The drug known as ecstasy has been used by 12 million people in the United States alone and
millions more worldwide

Why Problem Drinking During Adolescence Is Never a 'Phase'

The Rutgers Alcohol Problem Index (RAPI) is widely used to assess adolescent drinking-related
problems

Promising Treatment for Heroin Dependency

A new treatment using naltrexone implants could lead to a significant reduction in heroin
dependency

Anxiety Disorders

Anxiety Disorders in Children and Adolescents in the First Six Months After Traumatic
Brain Injury
The study's objective was to assess the nature, rate, predictive factors, and neuroimaging
correlates of novel (new-onset) definite anxiety disorders and novel definite/subclinical anxiety
disorders after traumatic brain injury

Vigilant and avoidant attention biases as predictors of response to cognitive behavioral

therapy for social phobia
Attention bias for socially threatening information, an empirically supported phenomenon,
figures prominently in models of social phobia

Social Anxiety Disorder And Psychotherapy

When psychotherapy is helping someone get better, what does that change look like in the
brain?

The impact of cognitive behavioral therapy on post event processing among those with
social anxiety disorder
Individuals with social anxiety are prone to engage in post event processing, a post mortem
review of a social interaction that focuses on negative elements

Dementia
Alzheimer’s

Pain treatment of agitation in patients with dementia: a systematic review

Advancing age is associated with high prevalence of both dementia and pain

Study Suggests Hearing Loss-Dementia Link

Greater the loss, greater the risk, say researchers, noting finding is preliminary

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Scientists today agree that there are five molecules that are known to affect or cause
Alzheimer's disease

Financial Incapacity May Signal Worsening Dementia

Physicians need to help patients and families dealing with Alzheimer's disease and its pre-
cursor, mild cognitive impairment, recognize when an older patient is losing the ability to
manage their own financial affairs

Study Finds Increasing Brain Enzyme Can Slow Damaging Accumulation Of Tau Protein
In Alzheimer's Disease
Increasing puromycin-sensitive aminopeptidase, the most abundant brain peptidase in
mammals, slowed the damaging accumulation of tau proteins that are toxic to nerve cells and
eventually lead to the neurofibrillary tangles, a major pathological hallmark of Alzheimer's
disease and other forms of dementia

Depression
Bipolar disorders

Likelihood of childhood/adolescent bipolar diagnosis unaffected by age

The decision to diagnose mania in children and adolescents is influenced by symptoms such as
a decreased need for sleep, along with elated mood and grandiosity

Study: Premenstrual Mood Changes Predictive Of Greater Bipolar Disorder Severity

A study of nearly 300 women with bipolar disorder showed that those reporting flare-ups of
mood symptoms before menstruation had more depressive episodes and more severe
symptoms during the following year, compared with bipolar women without premenstrual mood
changes

Behavioural Activation Therapy For Depression Can Be Delivered Effectively By Non-

Specialists
Depression can be treated effectively with psychotherapy by mental health nurses with minimal
training, according to new preliminary research findings

IgG antibodies to gliadin increased in bipolar disorder patients

Patients with bipolar disorder have increased levels of immunoglobulin (Ig)G antibodies to
gliadin, but they do not display other antibody reactivity profiles that are indicative of celiac
disease

Internal timing mechanisms disrupted in bipolar disorder patients

Results from a US study suggest that internal mechanisms that control timing are impaired in
patients with bipolar disorder

Treatment For Manic-Depressive Illness Restores Brain Volume Deficits

Lithium, introduced in the late 1940's, was the first "wonder drug" in psychiatry

Suicidality in pediatric bipolar disorder: predictor or outcome of family processes

and mixed mood presentation?
Pediatric bipolar disorder involves a potent combination of mood dysregulation and
interpersonal processes, placing these youth at significantly greater risk of suicide

Mixed symptoms linked to suicidality in bipolar disorder youth

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risk for suicidality

Dual Diagnosis

Kids With ADHD Much More Likely to Develop Substance Abuse Problems as They Age,
Study Finds
Children with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder are two to three times more likely than
children without the disorder to develop serious substance abuse problems in adolescence and
adulthood

Perceived reasons for and consequences of substance abuse among patients with
psychosis
Substance use is a common comorbidity with psychotic illnesses. Although several theories
exist to explain this link, individual reasons for use may differ

Eating Disorders

Association between excessive body fat and eating-disorder risk in adolescents: The
AFINOS Study
Overweight and obesity, together with eating disorders, are important public health concerns in
adolescence

Anorexics Draw A Different Self-Portrait

Women suffering from anorexia or bulimia draw themselves with prominently different
characteristics than women who do not have eating disorders and who are considered of
normal weight

Learning Disabilities

Hand Movements In Children With ADHD Hold Clues To Understanding And Predicting
Symptom Severity
Two research found markers for measuring the ability of children with Attention Deficit
Hyperactivity Disorder to control impulsive movements, which may reveal insights into the
neurobiology of ADHD, inform prognosis and guide treatments

Access to respite breaks for families who have a relative with intellectual disabilities: a
national survey

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 This paper reports the findings of a national study of the variations in the provision and
correlates of respite breaks to families

Ageing and health status in adults with intellectual disabilities: Results of the European
POMONA II study
POMONA II was a European Commission public health-funded project

Obsessive Compulsive
Disorders

Hoarding Behaviors in Children With Learning Disabilities

The objective was to describe the prevalence, comorbidity, and neuropsychological profiles of
children with hoarding and learning disabilities

Assessment of obsessive-compulsive disorder: review and future directions

Careful evaluation of obsessive-compulsive disorder is critical owing to its under-recognition,
difficulty ascertaining accurate diagnoses and the need for detailed treatment planning

Predictors of treatment outcome in modular cognitive therapy for obsessive-compulsive

disorder
The present study sought to identify predictors of outcome for a comprehensive cognitive
therapy developed for patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder

Abnormal metabolic brain networks in Tourette syndrome

To identify metabolic brain networks that are associated with Tourette syndrome and comorbid
obsessive-compulsive disorder

The comparison of aripiprazole and risperidone augmentation in selective serotonin

reuptake inhibitor-refractory obsessive-compulsive disorder: a single-blind, randomised
study
This study investigated the comparative efficacy of aripiprazole and risperidone as augmenting
agents in the treatment of obsessive-compulsive disorder patients who did not show a ≥35%
decrease in the Yale-Brown Obsessive-Compulsive Scale after 12-week monotherapy with
selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors

Occupational Therapy

The relationship between sensory processing difficulties and leisure activity preference
of children with different types of ADHD
Sensory processing difficulties are prevalent among children with ADHD. Yet, the question
whether different SPD characterize children with different types of ADHD has not received
enough attention in the literature

Leisure participation for school-aged children with Down syndrome

Leisure participation was affected by complex factors both within and external to the child with
Down syndrome

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Stress Disorder

Novel combination strategy to optimize treatment for PTSD

Post-traumatic stress disorder is increasingly recognized as a serious and potentially debilitating
condition in combat veterans returning from Iraq and Afghanistan

Virtual Reality Therapy Aids Soldiers with PTSD

Researchers have found that a new approach called Virtual Reality Exposure Therapy resulted
in significant reductions in PTSD symptoms for military service members after an average of
just seven treatment sessions

Psychology

Emotional Response May Predict How The Body Responds To Stress

Your emotional response to challenging situations could predict how your body responds to
stress

Making Up for Lost Opportunities: The Protective Role of Downward Social Comparisons
for Coping With Regrets Across Adulthood
Two longitudinal studies showed that if adults confront low opportunities to overcome regrets,
downward social comparisons can exert self-protective functions across the adult life span,
irrespective of age

Schizophrenia

Cognitive function not linked to suicidality in schizophrenia

Results from a Norwegian study suggest that neurocognitive functioning is not associated with
suicidal behavior in patients with schizophrenia spectrum

Clinical and social predictors of psychosis recovery elucidated

A stable family background, good social functioning, and low levels of negative symptoms are
significant predictors of recovery in patients with non-affective psychosis

Antioxidant defence reduced in early-onset psychosis patients

Patients with early-onset first-episode psychosis show deficits in the antioxidant defense system
compared with mentally healthy individuals

Cognitive training benefits patients at high risk for schizophrenia

Computer-based cognitive training significantly improves long-term memory and attention in
patients who are at ultra-high risk for schizophrenia

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Body Dysmorphic Disorder and Its Significance to Social Work

Body dysmorphic disorder (BDD) is a relatively common and often severe psychiatric disorder in
which an individual has an excessive preoccupation with an imagined or slight defect in his or
her appearance

Therapeutic Communication with Psychotic Clients

With the current emphasis on evidence-based practice, the significance of the social worker–
client relationship as a prerequisite to client goal attainment has been de-emphasized

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Books, Conferences,
Websites & Journal Tocs

NEW PUBLICATIONS
Books and reports hot of the press
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British Gambling Prevalence Survey 2010

Gambling Commision

Centre for Mental Health: Annual Review 2010

Diversion: the business case for action

Learning and Attention Disorders in Adolescence and Adulthood: Assessment and

Treatment: 2nd Revised edition

Social Control and The Use of Power in Social Work With Children and Families

Psychosis: Stories of Recovery and Hope

Multicultural Counseling and Psychotherapy: A Lifespan Approach: 5th Revised edition

Understanding Behavior Disorders: A Contemporary Behavioral Perspective

Understanding Girls' Problem Behavior: How Girls' Delinquency Develops in the Context
of Maturity and Health, Co-Occurring Problems, and Relationships

Sourcebook of Interactive Practice Exercises in Mental Health

Eating Disorder in Males

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