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h March 19ttth 2012 March 19 h 2012

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News from all corners of the world

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National News

Downs Syndrome Awareness Week: 19th 25th March

Where social workers go wrong in assessing mental capacity Social workers need to work harder to enable service users to make decisions for themselves, says independent mental capacity advocate and consultant Natalie Saunders Half of care leavers say they have to leave care too early Half of care leavers say they have to leave care too early, a survey of their views has found. The After Care report by the Childrens Rights Director Roger Morgan looked at views from 308 care leavers

Care homes struggle to provide good care for sick residents Care homes are struggling to provide high quality care for residents with complex medical conditions, a report by the Royal College of Nursing has warned Action plan sets out radical overhaul of adoption system The Government today published an Action Plan for Adoption to overhaul the system for prospective adopters and strengthen the performance regime for local authorities Patient Opinion to cover social care Patient Opinion is to receive government funding to become the official site for patient feedback on social care services Child alcohol awareness 'higher than for some foods' Children as young as 10 are more familiar with some alcohol brands and adverts than those for popular foods and snacks, research shows Remembering Jim Mansell Architect of learning disability policy passes away Teenagers increasingly prone to mental health problems
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Teenagers are far from likely to suffer from anxiety, depression and behavioural problems than their counterparts of 30 years ago, according to latest research NICE Consultation: Health and wellbeing of looked-after children Consultation dates: 14 March to 13 April 2012 NICE Consultation: Care of people with dementia Consultation dates: 14 March to 13 April 2012 Home care for elderly branded 'shocking and disgraceful' The standards of care provided for older people in their homes in the UK has been labelled "shocking and disgraceful" by a consumer group Inquiry to investigate support for missing children An inquiry has been launched into the support available to children who run away or go missing from care in the UK

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International News

New Target For Drug Addiction Treatment Suggested By Collaborative Preclinical Efficacy Studies In preclinical studies, researchers at SRI International and Astraea Therapeutics have recently evaluated the role of a new drug receptor target that shows promise for the treatment of drug addiction

The Next International Manual Of Mental Disorders Plagued By Conflicts Of Interest There are concerns that the revised Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM - scheduled for publication in May 2013, has been unduly influenced by the pharmaceutical industry despite the APA's instigating a policy of disclosing all financial conflicts of interest

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RESEARCH RESEARCH

Declines in mental illness over the adult years: An enduring finding or methodological artifact?
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Epidemiological surveys have revealed dramatic declines in the prevalence of serious mental illness (SMI) as adults age Innovations in Practice: The impact of the development of a CAMH Intensive Treatment Service and service redesign on psychiatric admissions In 2006, the Scottish Government made a commitment to reduce admissions of young people to adult psychiatric wards. This study investigates the impact of a Child and Adolescent Mental Health Intensive Treatment Service and service redesign on psychiatric admission rates

Addictions
Substance abuse, alcoholism,

Patients Prescribed Heroin-Assisted Therapy Live Longer And Cost Society Less Medically prescribed heroin is more cost-effective than methadone for treating long-term street heroin users Evaluation of a suicide prevention training curriculum for substance abuse treatment providers based on Treatment Improvement Protocol Number 50 Substance use disorders (SUDs) confer risk for suicide yet there are no empirically supported suicide prevention training curricula tailored to SUD treatment providers Combining cognitive behavioral therapy and contingency management to enhance their effects in treating cannabis dependence: Less can be more, more or less To evaluate reciprocal enhancement (combining treatments to offset their relative weaknesses) as a strategy to improve cannabis treatment outcomes Factors of Empowerment for Women in Recovery from Substance Use Empowerment is an interdisciplinary construct heavily grounded in the theories of community psychology. Although empowerment has a strong theoretical foundation, few context-specific quantitative measures have been designed to evaluate empowerment for specific populations Cost-effectiveness of diacetylmorphine versus methadone for chronic opioid dependence refractory to treatment Although diacetylmorphine has been proven to be more effective than methadone maintenance treatment for opioid dependence, its direct costs are higher

Anxiety Disorders

Innovations in the Treatment of Anxiety Psychopathology: Introduction to a Special Series Behavioral and cognitive interventions have an established history of efficacy for the treatment of anxiety disorders Emotion Regulation and Anxiety Disorders
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A growing body of research suggests that the construct of emotion regulation is important for understanding the onset, maintenance, and treatment of anxiety disorders Advances in Psychotherapy for Generalized Anxiety Disorder Since the introduction of generalized anxiety disorder into the diagnostic system for psychiatric conditions, scientists have worked to develop effective treatments for the amelioration of chronic, excessive worry

Dementia
Alzheimers New Study Points To Possible New Therapeutic Approaches In Treatment Of Alzheimer's Disease A research group has uncovered a critical process in understanding the degeneration of brain cells sensitive to Alzheimer's disease Donepezil and memantine for moderate-to-severe Alzheimer's disease Clinical trials have shown the benefits of cholinesterase inhibitors for the treatment of mild-tomoderate Alzheimer's disease Vitamin D Stimulates Amyloid Clearance in Alzheimer's Mechanism of clearance involves genomic and non-genomic signaling Coping And Quality Of Life For The Caregivers Of Alzheimer's Patients Enhanced By A Simple, Low-Cost Yoga Program For every individual who's a victim of Alzheimer's - there's a related victim: the caregiver. Spouse, son, daughter, other relative or friend, the loneliness, exhaustion, fear and most of all stress and depression takes a toll Discontinuation of antidepressants in people with dementia and neuropsychiatric symptoms (DESEP study): double blind, randomised, parallel group, placebo controlled trial To determine the effect of discontinuing antidepressant treatment in people with dementia and neuropsychiatric symptoms

Depression
Bipolar disorders Brain volume differences may help predict bipolar disorder Patients at ultra-high risk for psychosis who go on to develop the bipolar disorder show greater amygdala and insula volume reductions than ultra-high risk patients who remain well Patterns of depression and treatment in pregnant and postpartum women To determine the course of depression and the effects of treatment during pregnancy and into the postpartum period Treatment dropout rates high in bipolar disorder patients Around one-third of patients with bipolar disorder stop taking their medications against doctors'
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advice within 1 year of starting treatment Perceived Competence and Depressive Symptoms Among Adolescents: The Moderating Role of Attributional Style This longitudinal study examined the interactive effects of depressive attributional style and multiple domains of perceived competence on depressive symptoms among 431 adolescents Number of prior episodes and the presence of depressive symptoms are associated with longer length of stay for patients with acute manic episodes Few studies have analyzed predictors of length of stay in patients admitted due to acute bipolar manic episodes Prevention of Postpartum Psychosis and Mania in Women at High Risk Women with a history of bipolar disorder or postpartum psychosis are at extremely high risk of relapse postpartum Circadian Rhythm May Hold Key For Treatment Of Bipolar Disorder Scientists have gained insight into why lithium salts are effective at treating bipolar disorder in what could lead to more targeted therapies with fewer side-effects Three-fold increased risk for obesity in BD, schizophrenia patients Patients with bipolar disorder (BD) or schizophrenia are over three times more likely to be overweight or obese than the general population Cyclothymic temperament linked to depression recurrence in BD Patients with bipolar disorder (BD) who have a cyclothymic temperament are more likely to experience depressive episode recurrences than their counterparts with other affective temperament types

Dual Diagnosis

US veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan with mental health disorders show risky opioid use US veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan with mental health disorders are more likely to be prescribed opioids and to misuse their prescription than veterans with no such disorder, shows research published in JAMA Reasons for substance use among people with mental disorders Comorbidity of mental disorders and substance use continues to be a major problem

Eating Disorders

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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 Using the Implicit Relational Assessment Procedure to Compare Implicit Pro-Thin/AntiFat Attitudes of Patients With Anorexia Nervosa and Non-Clinical Controls Implicit pro-thin/anti-fat attitudes were investigated among a mixed group of patients with full and sub-threshold Anorexia Nervosa, and a matched-age control group

Forensic Psychiatry

Gender differences in violence risk profiles By contributing to the discussion concerning applicability of methods for assessing risk of violence to special groups, we studied the gender differences in violence risk profiles in 231 institutionalised adolescents Childhood abuse history differentiates personality in sex offenders This study examines the influence of abuse in childhood in the personality of Spanish adult sex offenders

Learning Disabilities

Potential Role of Parents' Work Exposures in Autism Risk Examined: Possible Link Between Some Work Exposures and Risk for Offspring Could parental exposure to solvents at work be linked to autism spectrum disorder (ASD) in their children? Genetic investigation for adults with intellectual disability: opportunities and challenges This review discusses diagnostic genetic assessment for adults with idiopathic intellectual disability, considering the potential yields and limitations of currently available investigations The impact of health checks for people with intellectual disabilities: a systematic review of evidence Health checks for people with intellectual disabilities (ID) have been recommended as one component of health policy responses to the poorer health of people with ID. This review summarises evidence on the impact of health checks on the health and well-being of people with ID The mediating impact of coping style on stress perception for parents of individuals with intellectual disabilities Research reveals that parents of individuals with intellectual disabilities experience more stress than parents of persons of normal development
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Reducing the barriers to relationships and sexuality education for persons with intellectual disabilities Opportunities for persons with intellectual disabilities to participate in relationships and sexuality education (RSE) are often constrained by the attitudes and perceptions of family carers, frontline support workers and professional staff Self-injurious behaviour in individuals with autism spectrum disorder and intellectual disability Autism spectrum disorder has been identified as a risk marker for self-injurious behaviour A Model Established To Study How The Brain Processes Multisensory Information, A Process That Goes Awry In Autism Spectrum Disorders A study that compared the ability of humans and rodents to make perceptual decisions based on combining different modes of sensory stimuli - visual and auditory cues, for instance - has found that just like humans, rodents also combine multisensory information and exploit it in a "statistically optimal" way - or the most efficient and unbiased way possible

Nursing Research

Effects of an Emotion Management Nursing Program for Patients With Schizophrenia This study was to develop and examine the effects of an emotion management nursing program for schizophrenic patients Cognitive Vulnerabilities, Negative Life Events, and Depressive Symptoms in Young Adolescents Negative patterns of thinking, termed cognitive vulnerabilities, have been identified as risk factors for the development of depressive symptoms when adolescents experience negative life events

Obsessive Compulsive Disorders

Disgust recognition in obsessive-compulsive disorder: diagnostic comparisons and posttreatment effects To examine whether disgust recognition deficits are present and specific to obsessivecompulsive disorder, and the extent to which this deficit, if present, can be reduced in cognitivebehavioural therapy Impact of obsessive-compulsive symptoms in Tourette's syndrome on neuropsychological performance Although inconsistencies in neuropsychological impairments in Tourette's syndrome have been discussed with respect to comorbid disorders, such as obsessive-compulsive disorder, few studies have focused on the specific dimensions of obsessive-compulsive symptoms related to TS, such as aggression and symmetry

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Occupational Therapy

The Effect of an Occupational Therapy Role-Playing Intervention on the Social Skills of Adolescents With Asperger's Syndrome: A Pilot Study The purpose of the authors in this pilot study was to assess the effects of an occupational therapy role-playing intervention for adolescents with Asperger's syndrome Occupational Therapists Perceptions of Their Role in the Screening and Assessment of the Driving Capacity of People With Mental Illnesses The objective of the authors in this study was to qualitatively explore occupational therapists role in providing driving-related services to people with mental illnesses

Post Traumatic Stress Disorder

Treating PTSD in Suicidal and Self-injuring Women with Borderline Personality Disorder: Development and Preliminary Evaluation of a Dialectical Behavior Therapy Prolonged Exposure Protocol Women with BPD, PTSD, and recent and/or imminent serious intentional self-injury (n=13) received one year of DBT with the DBT PE Protocol, plus three months of follow up assessment Bullying and PTSD Symptoms PTSD symptoms related to school bullying have rarely been investigated, and never in national samples Personality and the latent structure of PTSD comorbidity This study examined the structure of PTSD comorbidity and its relationship to personality in a sample of 214 veterans using data from diagnostic interviews and the Multidimensional Personality Questionnaire-Brief Form

Psychology

Parental Psych Well-Being Impacts VLBW Child Behavior More problems for very low birth weight children with poor parental psychological well-being Common early signs of emerging psychosis identified Loss of energy, difficulty concentrating, depression, and social isolation are the most frequently recalled early signs and symptoms of emerging psychosis Motivation To Be Active May Lead To Impulsive Behavior The study found that people primed with words suggesting action were more likely than others to make impulsive decisions that undermined their long-term goals

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Schizophrenia

Brain volume reductions in medication-naive patients with schizophrenia in relation to intelligence quotient Global brain abnormalities such as brain volume loss and grey- and white-matter deficits are consistently reported in first-episode schizophrenia patients and may already be detectable in the very early stages of the illness Executive dysfunction and memory impairment in schizoaffective disorder: a comparison with bipolar disorder, schizophrenia and healthy controls Deficits in memory and executive performance are well-established features of bipolar disorder and schizophrenia Common early signs of emerging psychosis identified Loss of energy, difficulty concentrating, depression, and social isolation are the most frequently recalled early signs and symptoms of emerging psychosis Epilepsy linked to increased risk for psychosis People with epilepsy are significantly more likely to experience psychosis than the general population White matter integrity, language, and childhood onset schizophrenia The heterogeneity of symptoms and cognitive deficits in schizophrenia can be explained by abnormal connectivity between brain regions Prevention of Postpartum Psychosis and Mania in Women at High Risk Women with a history of bipolar disorder or postpartum psychosis are at extremely high risk of relapse postpartum Disordered Brain Networks Discovered In Children At Risk For Schizophrenia A team of neuroscientists has discovered stark developmental differences in brain network function in children of parents with schizophrenia when compared to those with no family history of mental illness Three-fold increased risk for obesity in BD, schizophrenia patients Patients with bipolar disorder (BD) or schizophrenia are over three times more likely to be overweight or obese than the general population

Social Work

Many Alcoholics Suffered Childhood Trauma: Study Physical, sexual, emotional abuse reported by many people in detox 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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Books and reports hot of the press Click the title to connect to the website entry Changing adolescence: Social trends and mental health Social Work and Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Trans People: Making a Difference Psychiatric-mental health Nursing: An Interpersonal Approach to Professional Practice Group Exercises for Addiction Counseling Changing Beliefs in Cognitive Therapy: A Therapist's Guide Social Work With Adults: Policy, Law, Theory, Research and Practice Mental Illness in Popular Media: Essays on the Representation of Disorders Principles and Practice of Grief Counseling Group Therapy in Childhood Psychosis Child Adhd: Practical Evidence-based Treatment Gardening for Children With Autism Spectrum Disorders and Special Educational Needs: Engaging with Nature to Combat Anxiety, Promote Sensory Integration and Build Social Skills

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