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News from all corners of the world

Department of Health

Government response to Science and Technology Committee Report on alcohol guidelines published 4 million for technological solutions to tackle healthcare problems The Prime Ministerss challenge on dementia Personal health budgets update March 2012

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National News

CQC publishes 19 more reports from its review of services for people with learning disabilities The Care Quality Commission (CQC) today publishes a further 19 reports from a targeted programme of 150 unannounced inspections of hospitals and care homes that care for people with learning disabilities

Dementia: PM promises push to tackle 'national crisis' Extra funding for research into dementia forms a central plank of the government's attempts to tackle the "national crisis" in care Social workers urged to tackle exclusion of dementia patients Social care professionals have been urged to help connect dementia patients with their communities after an Alzheimer's Society survey revealed widespread social exclusion for the group NHS ageism 'harming elderly care' The elderly are being passed around hospitals in England like parcels, often going without treatment because of ageist attitudes, a report suggests Alcohol Guidelines To Come Under Review, UK The UK government is to commission a review of the current guidelines on alcohol consumption Massive variations in personal budget take-up across councils Massive variations in personal budget take-up persist between councils and regions, the latest official figures show

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High-risk homeless clients turned away from services Funding cuts are causing many more homelessness projects to turn away the highest risk clients, research finds today Case review model aims to end social work blame culture In her review of child protection, Eileen Munro recommended a systems approach to serious case reviews. Eight pilots of the systems model developed by the Social Care Institute for Excellence are now well under way. Louise Hunt reports on progess so far Kinship carers let down by councils, study finds Kinship carers in England are being failed by their local authorities, according to "shocking" research by the Family Rights Group and Oxford University CQC: Care homes failing to train staff in deprivation of liberty Many care homes have failed to provide staff with appropriate deprivation of liberty safeguards training, leading to poor practice and human rights breaches, the Care Quality Commission warned today Fury over plans to cut beds in secure children's homes The Youth Justice Board is to press ahead with plans to decommission beds in secure childrens homes and secure training centres Social worker deprivation of liberty assessments unmonitored The Care Quality Commission has raised concerns over the protection of vulnerable adults because of its inability to monitor deprivation of liberty assessments by social workers and other professionals Fear over plans to "slaughter" child protection guidance Ministers are planning to "slaughter" key child safeguarding guidance as part of measures to tackle bureaucracy in children's services, Community Care understands Mental health organisations welcome decision to retain mental health amendment A coalition of mental health organisations last week welcomed the House of Commons decision to give mental health a higher priority in the new health system in England

The Annual Cost Of Autism Has More Than Tripled To $126 Billion In The U.S. And Reached 34 Billion In The U.K Autism Speaks, the world's leading autism science and advocacy organization, has announced preliminary results of new research that estimates autism costs society a staggering $126 billion per year (U.S.) - a number that has more than tripled since 2006, and annually in the U.K. has reached more than 34 billion (equivalent to $54 billion U.S.) Number of adults social workers remains stable The number of adults social workers employed by councils remained stable last year despite widespread fears over job cuts and a drop of almost 10 per cent in the overall adult care workforce Hospital visits lower for care home than home care clients Care home residents are less likely to end up in hospital than users of intensive home care, research has revealed

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International News

Sudden Onset OCD In Children - Possible Causes Broadened Criteria for a broadened syndrome of acute onset obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) have been proposed by a National Institutes of Health scientist and her colleagues Females On Parole And Mental Illness Risk The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) Advisory Committee for Women's Services released a new report, which demonstrates that 18 to 49 year old women on probation or parole have an almost two-fold higher risk of experiencing mental illness compared with other women As Baby Boomers Reach Old Age, Elder Abuse Remains Hidden Problem Despite the 2010 passage of the Elder Justice Act, policy experts have found that combating widespread abuse of seniors is still not a top priority for care providers and governments alike FDA Adds More Warnings to Antidepressant's Label Celexa dosing should not exceed 40 mg a day, agency says U.S. Autism Rate Rises to 1 in 88 Children, CDC Reports Boys have even higher risk; experts say part of increase may be due to better diagnosis

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RESEARCH RESEARCH

Recovery-Oriented Services for Individuals with Mental Illness and Case Managers Experience of Professional Burnout Present cross-sectional study examined perceptions of recovery-oriented services and reports of professional burnout and job satisfaction in a sample of 114 case managers working in community mental health centers across Ohio Mental Health Implications of Human Attachment to Companion Animals Because of the contradictory nature of findings and methodological weaknesses identified within current human-companion animal bond research, there is a need to further explore the connection between human-animal bonds and mental health Positive Outcomes For Children When School-Based Mental Health Support Available A study of more than 18,000 children across England found that embedding mental health support in schools as part of the Targeted Mental Health in Schools (TaMHS) programme led to greater improvements in self-reported behavioural problems among primary pupils

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Addictions
Substance abuse, alcoholism, Prediction of Codeine Toxicity in Infants and Their Mothers Using a Novel Combination of Maternal Genetic Markers Substantial variation exists in response to standard doses of codeine ranging from poor analgesia to life-threatening central nervous system (CNS) depression Does family history of alcohol problems influence college and university drinking or substance use?: A meta-analytic review Family history of alcohol use problems is a reliable determinant of alcohol use and problems in the population at large, but findings are inconsistent when this issue is examined in college and university students. No quantitative summary of this literature has been reported to date Community-Based Prevention Support: Using the Interactive Systems Framework to Facilitate Grassroots Evidenced-Based Substance Abuse Prevention The community plays an important role in the success of substance abuse prevention efforts Friendship Context Matters: Examining the Domain Specificity of Alcohol and Depression Socialization Among Adolescents Driven by existing socialization theories, this study describes specific friendship contexts in which peer influence of alcohol misuse and depressive symptoms occurs

Anxiety Disorders

Evidence Based Clinical Assessment of Child and Adolescent Social Phobia: A Critical Review of Rating Scales Investigating the empirical support of various assessment instruments, the evidence based assessment approach expands the scientific basis of psychotherapy Cognitive Processes Mediate the Relation Between Mindfulness and Social Anxiety Within a Clinical Sample The researchers investigated the relation between mindfulness and social anxiety symptoms, and examined whether this relation is mediated by cognitive appraisals commonly associated with social anxiety

Dementia
Alzheimers New Test Might Facilitate Diagnosis And Drug Development For Alzheimer's Disease An international team of researchers have developed a new method for measurement of
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aggregated beta-amyloid - a protein complex believed to cause major nerve cell damage and dysfunction in Alzheimer's disease Cognitive Decline In Alzheimer's Disease May Be Compounded By Brain Insulin Resistance Insulin resistance in the brain precedes and contributes to cognitive decline above and beyond other known causes of Alzheimer's disease, according to a new study by researchers Protein Aggregates Linked To Alzheimer's Can Stem From Chronic Stress Repeated stress triggers the production and accumulation of insoluble tau protein aggregates inside the brain cells of mice Validation of a Latent Variable Representing the Dementing Process The cognitive correlates of functional status are essential to dementia case-finding Antipsychotic Drugs Might Raise Heart Attack Risk: Study Researchers saw a 'modest' increase, which decreased over time Behavior-Based Treatment An Option For Dementia Patients The researchers examined six common categories of delusion, including fears of abandonment, suspicions that patients' possessions were being stolen, and feelings that they were not "at home."

Depression
Bipolar disorders

Affective lability may distinguish BPD from bipolar disorder patients Patients with bipolar disorder differ from those with borderline personality disorder (BPD) regarding patterns of affective lability Hippocampal volume linked to verbal memory performance in BD patients Results from a US study show that reduced hippocampal volume is associated with increased verbal memory impairment in patients with bipolar disorder Development and Validation of the Current Concept of Major Depression The operational diagnostic criteria for major depression have remained more or less the same in the past 40 years Understanding suicide risk: identification of high-risk groups during high-risk times The assessment of suicide risk is a complex task for mental health professionals Electroacupuncture may be effective for depression: study Boosting the effect of acupuncture needles with small electric currents may be effective in treating depression, a study in Hong Kong has found Review confirms specific gray matter reductions in BD patients Results from a systematic review and meta-analysis of published studies show that bipolar disorder (BD) patients consistently exhibit right-sided, grey matter volume reductions in the temporal cortex, prefrontal cortex, and claustrum Does the Brain 'Remember' Antidepressants? More Proof for the Power of Placebo
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Individuals with major depressive disorder (MDD) often undergo multiple courses of antidepressant treatment during their lives Postpartum depression tied to domestic violence Mothers with postpartum depression are more likely to be in a violent relationship than moms without depression, and new mothers in abusive relationships are more likely to suffer postpartum depression, according to a new survey of women with infants Sleep problems common in children with bipolar disorder Most children with bipolar disorder experience sleep problems during mood episodes, US study results show

Dual Diagnosis

Role of Substance Abuse Comorbidity and Personality on the Outcome of Depression in Bipolar Disorder: Harm Avoidance Influences Medium-Term Treatment Outcome Comorbid conditions are frequent in bipolar disorder and may complicate the treatment and course of illness Psychological treatments for concurrent posttraumatic stress disorder and substance use disorder: A systematic review This article gives an overview of research into psychological treatments for concurrent posttraumatic stress disorder and substance used disorder, with a special focus on the effectiveness of treatments addressing both disorders compared to treatments addressing one of the disorders alone

Eating Disorders

Evaluating the Effects of a Peer-Support Model: Reducing Negative Body Esteem and Disordered Eating Attitudes and Behaviours in Grade Eight Girls During adolescence girls become increasingly preoccupied with unrealistic ideals about body weight, often leading to dieting and unhealthy compensatory behaviours Discerning Thoughts From Feelings: The Cognitive-Affective Division in Eating Disorders This article delineates the phenomenon of cognitive-affective division in eating disorders, used to refer to the difficulty some patients face in translating what they think cognitively to what they feel emotionally

Forensic Psychiatry

Predicting community violence from patients discharged from acute mental health units
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in England To investigate the validity of risk factors and established risk measures in predicting community violence in an acute mental health sample up to 20 weeks post-discharge Comparing Recidivism Rates of Treatment Responders/Nonresponders in a Sample of 413 Child Molesters Who Had Completed Community-Based Sex Offender Treatment in the United Kingdom Analysis of psychometric data from a sample of 413 child molesters who had completed a U.K. probation-based sex offender treatment program was carried out to assess (a) the effectiveness of therapy in the short term and (b) the longer term implications of treatment in relation to sexual recidivism

Learning Disabilities

Genes Differ in Brains of Young and Old With Autism Gene expression differences in prefrontal cortex, an area overgrown in autism Diagnosis of ADHD Has Risen 66 Percent Over Last Decade More than 10 million children and adolescents diagnosed with ADHD in 2010 in the United States How staff pursue questions to adults with intellectual disabilities When support staff use questions to instruct, advise or guide adults with intellectual disabilities (ID), or to solicit information from them, the interaction does not always proceed smoothly, particularly when replies are ambiguous, absent or not obviously relevant The extent and nature of need for mealtime support among adults with intellectual disabilities For many adults with an intellectual disability, mealtimes carry significant health risks. While research and allied clinical guidance has focused mainly on dysphagia, adults with a range of physical and behavioural difficulties require mealtime support to ensure safety and adequate nutrition The role of self-injury in the organisation of behaviour Self-injuring acts are among the most dramatic behaviours exhibited by human beings. There is no known single cause and there is no universally agreed upon treatment Implicit Social Learning in Relation to Autistic-Like Traits We investigated if variation in autistic traits in the typically-developed population (using the Autism-spectrum Quotient, AQ) influenced implicit learning of social information

Nursing Research

Expectations, Exhaustion Can Lead Mothers to Post-Adoption Stress Fatigue and unrealistic expectations of parenthood may help contribute to post-adoption depression in women, according to a Purdue University study Predictors of caregiver burden in caregivers of individuals with dementia
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article is a report on a study of the multidimensional predictors of caregiver burden in caregivers of individuals with dementia using nationally representative data

Obsessive Compulsive Disorders

Pediatric Trichotillomania Trichotillomania is an impulse control disorder characterized by chronic hair-pulling, distress, and impairment. Although the negative effects of TTM are documented and often readily evident, there remains a paucity of psychopathology and treatment research on this disorder, particularly in pediatric populations Brain functional connectivity during induced sadness in patients with obsessivecompulsive disorder Obsessive-compulsive disorder is associated with a range of emotional abnormalities linked to its defining symptoms, comorbid illnesses and cognitive deficits New Syndrome Expands on Possible Causes of Sudden Onset OCD in Kids A National Institutes of Health scientist has identified a new syndrome that affects children and teens who suddenly develop obsessive compulsive disorder symptoms without any known cause

Occupational Therapy

Influence of self-efficacy on the interpersonal behavior of schizophrenia patients undergoing rehabilitation in psychiatric day-care services The present study examined whether the self-efficacy of interpersonal behavior influenced the interpersonal behavior of schizophrenia patients using psychiatric day-care services Impact of using the Model of Human Occupation: A survey of occupational therapy mental health practitioners' perceptions While little is known about how occupational therapists perceive the use of occupation-focused theory in their practice, evidence indicates that it has been called for in the profession

Post Traumatic Stress Disorder

Improved Understanding Of Memory Formation Leads To New Insight Into Disorders Like Schizophrenia And PTSD Scripps Research Institute scientists and their colleagues have successfully harnessed neurons in mouse brains, allowing them to at least partially control a specific memory Psychological treatments for concurrent posttraumatic stress disorder and substance
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use disorder: A systematic review This article gives an overview of research into psychological treatments for concurrent posttraumatic stress disorder and substance used disorder, with a special focus on the effectiveness of treatments addressing both disorders compared to treatments addressing one of the disorders alone Treating Posttraumatic Stress Disorder With Metacognitive Therapy: A Preliminary Controlled Trial Exposure, trauma-focused cognitive therapy and eye-movement desensitisation and reprocessing are effective treatments for posttraumatic stress disorder producing equivalent outcomes

Psychology

Teen Girls' Self-Esteem May Not Be Helped By Weight Loss Obese white teenage girls who lose weight may benefit physically, but the weight change does not guarantee they are going to feel better about themselves, according to a Purdue University study The role of general cognitive ability in moderating the relation of adverse life events to emotional and behavioural problems Previous studies have established the role of various measures of cognitive functioning in dampening the association between adverse life events (life stress) and adolescents emotional and behavioural problems

Schizophrenia

Improved Understanding Of Memory Formation Leads To New Insight Into Disorders Like Schizophrenia And PTSD Scripps Research Institute scientists and their colleagues have successfully harnessed neurons in mouse brains, allowing them to at least partially control a specific memory Smoking Increases Risk Of Schizophrenia Schizophrenia has long been known to be hereditary. However, as a melting pot of disorders with different genetic causes is concealed behind manifestations of schizophrenia, research has still not been able to identify the main gene responsible to this day Genetic Risk And Stressful Early Infancy Join To Increase Risk For Schizophrenia Working with genetically engineered mice and the genomes of thousands of people with schizophrenia, researchers at Johns Hopkins say they now better understand how both nature and nurture can affect one's risks for schizophrenia and abnormal brain development in general Cognitive impairments linked to oxidative stress in psychosis patients Results from a Spanish study suggest that peripheral biomarkers of oxidative stress and inflammation can predict cognitive function in patients with first-episode psychosis GM reductions in psychotic BD patients nonsignificant
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Gray matter volume reductions in bipolar disorder patients with psychosis are not as pronounced as those in patients with schizophrenia Stroke risk increased in Asian schizophrenia patients Patients with schizophrenia are at increased risk for stroke and post-stroke all-cause mortality, suggest results from a 5-year study in a Taiwanese population Genetic Risk and Stressful Early Infancy Join to Increase Risk for Schizophrenia Working with genetically engineered mice and the genomes of thousands of people with schizophrenia, researchers say they now better understand how both nature and nurture can affect one's risks for schizophrenia and abnormal brain development in general The Psychotomimetic Nature of Dreams: An Experimental Study Several theories promote the similarities between dreaming and psychosis, but this has rarely been tested empirically Schizophrenia linked to increased autoimmune disease risk Patients with schizophrenia are more likely to develop autoimmune diseases than the general population, research suggests

Social Work

Meeting Unmet Needs of Families of Persons with Mental Illness: Evaluation of a Family Peer Support Helpline Family members of persons with mental illness experience multiple stressors stemming from the burdens of caring for the ill family member Examining Outcomes of Acute Psychiatric Hospitalization Among Children Within the past two decades, few studies have examined outcomes of acute psychiatric hospitalization among children, demonstrating change in emotional and behavioral functioning

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NEW PUBLICATIONS
Books and reports hot of the press Click the title to connect to the website entry Dementia 2012: A national challenge Alzheimer's Society Dementia 2012 Report Factsheet: Family Rights Group research into family & friends care
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Counseling and Psychotherapy Theories in Context and Practice: Skills, Strategies, and Techniques: 2nd Revised edition Contemporary Developments in Adult and Young Adult Therapy: The Work of the Tavistock and Portman Clinics Foregiveness and Retribution: Responding to Wrongdoing Guide to Early Psychological Evaluation: Adults The Ethical Treatment of Depression: Autonomy Through Psychotherapy Psychobiological Approaches for Anxiety Disorders: Treatment Combination Strategies Methamphetamines: Abuse, Health Effects, and Treatment Options Drug Addiction: Science & Treatment Neuroimaging in Forensic Psychiatry: from the Clinic to the Courtroom

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