Mentall Heallth & Sociiall Care Current Awareness Bulllletiin Menta Hea th & Soc a Care Current Awareness Bu et n

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News from all corners of the world

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Transforming health and social care for people with dementia

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National News

Private equity firm buys up UK's biggest care home provider A private equity firm has bought up the country's biggest care home provider, Four Seasons Health Care, in a move that will "significantly reduce" the company's 780m debt burden 70% of children who return home from care aren't ready More than 70% of children who leave local authority care to live with their families do not feel they are ready to go home, according to research by the NSPCC What service users want from social workers What do service users want from social workers? Social work academic and mental health service user Peter Beresford says that research points to four crucial qualities Charity urges government to back new strategy on care jobs A charity representing carers has called for a new strategy to kick-start more jobs in the care industry Social work placements system under 'considerable strain' Englands model for ensuring the supply of practice placements for social work students is under "considerable strain", according to research by the outgoing regulator Health professionals must have '24-hour access to safeguarding advice' NHS staff in emergency care settings should be able to access child protection advice from a paediatrician with safeguarding expertise 24 hours a day, according to a new set of standards on minimum care requirements for children and young people Double suicide could have been averted The double suicide of two looked-after children could have been avoided if the care home they lived in had taken reasonable precautions, an inquiry into their deaths has concluded Dancers urge action on eating disorders The director of the Royal Ballet has said that any dance company director who claims never to have worked with an anorexic performer is "lying"
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International News

US sees sharp rise in newborns with opiate withdrawal The number of babies born in the US showing symptoms of opiate withdrawal increased threefold in the 10 years up to 2009, a medical study has found

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RESEARCH RESEARCH

Yoga May Help Prevent Adolescent Mental Problems High school students who do yoga may derive psychological benefits, researchers from Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School reported in the April issue of Journal of Developmental & Behavioral Pediatrics Lets get physical: improving the medical care of people with severe mental illness There is clear evidence of increased medical comorbidity and related mortality in people with severe mental illness, despite numerous guidelines for managing medical conditions in this population

Addictions
Substance abuse, alcoholism,

Adolescent treatment initiation and engagement in an evidence-based practice initiative This study examined client and program factors predicting initiation and engagement for 2,191 adolescents at 28 outpatient substance abuse treatment sites implementing evidence-based treatments The effect of social desirability on reported motivation, substance use severity, and treatment attendance Research has not consistently supported an association between stage of change and substance abuse treatment retention Scientists Identify Brain Circuitry Associated With Addictive, Depressive Behaviors
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Scientists have determined how specific circuitry in the brain controls not only body movement but also motivation and learning, providing new insight into neurodegenerative disorders such as Parkinson's disease - and psychiatric disorders such as addiction and depression Statistics, scapegoats and social control: A critique of pathological gambling prevalence research In this essay I examine the relationship between commercial gambling, framed as one example of global capitalist development, and the ways in which western societies respond to the social harms this activity produces The impact of comorbid cannabis and methamphetamine use on mental health among regular ecstasy users Residual effects of ecstasy use induce neurotransmitter changes that make it biologically plausible that extended use of the drug may induce psychological distress Peers Influence Both Pro- and Anti-Alcohol Behavior Adolescents are very adaptable to changing their alcohol norms based on those of their peers

Anxiety Disorders

The evidence-based pharmacotherapy of social anxiety disorder Social anxiety disorder (SAD) is a highly prevalent and often disabling disorder. This paper reviews the pharmacological treatment of SAD based on published placebo-controlled studies and published meta-analyses Testing the specificity of the prospective relationship between social anxiety disorder and drinking motives This study tested the specificity of the relationship between Social Anxiety Disorder (SAD) and coping drinking motives (versus enhancement drinking motives and social drinking motives) within the context of a range of potentially confounding variables measured during adolescence

Dementia
Alzheimers

Behavioral symptoms in mild cognitive impairment as compared with Alzheimer's disease and healthy older adults Mild cognitive impairment is a clinical concept that categorizes subjects who are in an intermediate cognitive state between normal aging and dementia. The aim of this study is to characterize behavior in MCI compared with Alzheimer's disease and healthy older patients Omega-3 Diet May Lower Alzheimers Risk A diet including chicken, nuts, fish, salad dressing, and other foods that contain omega-3 fatty acids may help to lower the blood level of a particular protein believed to be related to
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Alzheimers disease and memory problems Memantine Improves Some Alzheimer's Symptoms But Has No Effect On Agitation A drug prescribed for Alzheimer's disease does not ease clinically significant agitation in patients, according to a new study Advanced Brain Imaging Technology Reveals Early Diagnostic Clues For Alzheimer's Disease New and accurate techniques for early diagnosis are critical. Pravat K. Mandal, PhD, and his colleagues have developed a completely non-invasive brain imaging technique to measure specific brain chemical changes Discovery Of Potential Trigger For Alzheimer's Disease A highly toxic beta-amyloid - a protein that exists in the brains of Alzheimer's disease victims has been found to greatly increase the toxicity of other more common and less toxic betaamyloids, serving as a possible "trigger" for the advent and development of Alzheimer's

Depression
Bipolar disorders

Antidepressant Use During Pregnancy and the Risk of Pregnancy Induced Hypertension Due to their effect on altering physiological interactions between vasodilator and vasoconstrictor autacoids in normal pregnancies, antidepressants may be associated with the risk of pregnancy-induced hypertension Schizophrenia and BD share similar neurodevelopmental roots Increased genetic risk for both schizophrenia and bipolar disorder (BD) is associated with decreased white matter volume, thinner orbitofrontal and medial temporal cortices, and a thicker temporoparietal cortex, research shows Aggression levels increased in bipolar disorder patients Patients with bipolar disorder (BD) have higher levels of aggression than patients with other psychopathologies and mentally healthy individuals Brain activity abnormally increased during reward anticipation in BD Euthymic patients with bipolar disorder (BD) exhibit increased ventral striatal and orbitofrontal cortex (OFC) activity during reward anticipation compared with mentally healthy individuals

Dual Diagnosis

A 10-year study of steady employment and non-vocational outcomes among people with serious mental illness and co-occurring substance use disorders Employment promotes recovery for persons with serious mental illness by providing extra income and a valued social role, but the impact of employment on other psychosocial and
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clinical outcomes remains unclear Alcohol dependence has greater impact in BD I than II Alcohol dependence (ALD) has a greater negative impact on neuropsychologic functions in patients with bipolar disorder (BD) subtype I than in those with subtype II Moderators of fluoxetine treatment response for children and adolescents with comorbid depression and substance use disorders Our recent 8-week, randomized, placebo-controlled trial of fluoxetine in adolescents (ages 1217 years) with comorbid depression and substance use disorder (SUD) did not detect a significant antidepressant treatment effect Identifying patterns of co-occurring substance use disorders and mental illness in a jail population Although the co-occurrence of mental health and substance use disorders (SUDs) is well documented among correctional populations, less explored are the actual patterns that exist between specific SUDs and additional mental health disorders in combination

Eating Disorders

Cognitive distortions and eating pathology: Specificity of thought-shape fusion Thought-Shape Fusion (TSF) is a cognitive distortion that has been linked with eating pathology; however, the specificity of this distortion to eating disorders has not yet been examined A Systematic Review of Dialectical Behavior Therapy for the Treatment of Eating Disorders Dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) has been proposed as an effective treatment for eating disorders

Forensic Psychiatry

Life after homicide: accounts of recovery and redemption of offender patients in a high security hospital a qualitative study This study explores accounts of recovery and redemption from the perspective of offenders with a history of mental disorder who have committed homicide Identifying patterns of co-occurring substance use disorders and mental illness in a jail population Although the co-occurrence of mental health and substance use disorders (SUDs) is well documented among correctional populations, less explored are the actual patterns that exist between specific SUDs and additional mental health disorders in combination

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Learning Disabilities

Teen Impulsiveness Has Different Sources in ADHD, Substance Use Imaging study finds brain networks causing behavior aren't the same Being Bullied Tied to Anxiety, Depression in Special-Needs Kids More than chronic conditions themselves, maltreatment by peers led to mental distress in small study Discovery Of New Form Of Intellectual Disability Researchers at CAMH led a study discovering a gene for a new form of intellectual disability, as well as how it likely affects cognitive development by disrupting neuron functioning Potential Link Between Autism And Smoking During Pregnancy Women who smoke in pregnancy may be more likely to have a child with high-functioning autism, such as Asperger's Disorder, according to preliminary findings from a study by researchers Higher Maternal Age Predicts Risk Of Autism In a study researchers analyzed past studies to investigate possible associations between maternal age and autism Family functioning in families with a child with Down syndrome: a mixed methods approach This study aimed to explore the factors that predict functioning in families with a child with Down syndrome using a mixed methods design Parents of children with and without intellectual disability: couple relationship and individual well-being Research on parents of children with intellectual disability (ID) has identified a range of risk and protective factors for parental well-being. In family research, the association between marital quality and depression is a vital field of investigation Placebo-Controlled Pilot Trial of Mecamylamine for Treatment of Autism Spectrum Disorders To explore possible benefits of a nicotinic acetylcholine receptor (nAChR) agent for autistic symptoms based on postmortem observation of nAChR abnormalities (deficient 42 nAChRs, excess 7 nAChRs) in brains of patients with autism

Nursing Research

Role of the mental health nurse towards physical health care in serious mental illness: An integrative review of 10 years of UK Literature People with serious mental illness have significantly poorer physical health compared to the general population. Mental health nurses are in a prime position to help reduce unacceptable death in this population Health behaviour interventions to improve physical health in individuals diagnosed with
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a mental illness: A systematic review Individuals diagnosed with mental illness experience high rates of morbidity and mortality as a result of poor physical health and unhealthy lifestyle behaviours

Obsessive Compulsive Disorders

Antisaccade performance in patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder and unaffected relatives: further evidence for impaired response inhibition as a candidate endophenotype Cognitive dysfunctions such as inhibitory deficits and visuospatial abnormalities are often found in patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder Getting Out of Rumination: Comparison of Three Brief Interventions in a Sample of Youth Rumination, passively and repetitively dwelling on and questioning negative feelings in response to distress, is a risk factor for the development of psychopathology, especially depression

Occupational Therapy

Validation of the Neurobehavioral Cognitive Status Examination and the Rivermead Behavioural Memory Test in investigations of dementia The aim of this retrospective study was to validate two commonly used instruments, Cognistat and the Rivermead Behavioural Memory Test, RBMT, for detection of MCI and mild dementia Psychometric properties of the Worker Role Interview (version 10.0) in mental health Occupational therapists working in psychiatry are routinely required to undertake vocational assessments and to support clients into work. To make such efforts successful, the use of evidence-based practice and outcome measures is becoming increasingly important

Post Traumatic Stress Disorder

PTSD Symptoms May Be Relieved By Some Blood Pressure Drugs Traumatized people who take a class of common blood pressure medications tend to have less severe post-traumatic stress symptoms, researchers have found Brain activation to facial expressions in youth with ptsd symptoms This study examined activation to facial expressions in youth with a history of interpersonal trauma and current posttraumatic stress symptoms (PTSS) compared to healthy controls

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Psychology

Cognitive-behavioural group treatment for a range of functional somatic syndromes: randomised trial Many specialty-specific functional somatic syndrome diagnoses exist to describe people who are experiencing so-called medically unexplained symptoms Social Risk and Attribution: How Considering the Social Risk of Attributions Can Improve the Performance of Kelley's ANOVA Model in Applied Research Classic models of attribution are increasingly used, despite serious problems with their empirical validation

Schizophrenia

Perceived negative attitude predicts psychosis transition A perceived negative attitude of others to oneself predicts transition to full-blown psychosis in patients at risk for the mental health disorder, study results A comparison of adolescent- and adult-onset first-episode, non-affective psychosis: 2year follow-up This study aimed to compare 2-year outcome among individuals with early-onset versus adultonset first-episode, non-affective psychosis Cancer risk reduced in schizophrenia patients, relatives The overall risk for cancer is reduced in patients with schizophrenia and their first-degree relatives, researchers report Schizophrenia and BD share similar neurodevelopmental roots Increased genetic risk for both schizophrenia and bipolar disorder (BD) is associated with decreased white matter volume, thinner orbitofrontal and medial temporal cortices, and a thicker temporoparietal cortex, research shows Antipsychotic Maintenance Rx Aids Schizophrenia Patients But benefits of antipsychotic maintenance therapy need to be weighed against risk of side effects Kynurenic acid levels increased in schizophrenia patients Schizophrenia patients show increased levels of kynurenic acid (KYNA) and its precursor kynurenine (KYN) in cerebrospinal fluid Total antioxidant status reduced in schizophrenia patients Plasma total antioxidant status (TAS) is significantly decreased in schizophrenia patients compared with mentally healthy individuals, research in a Chinese population shows
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Social Work

Ethical dilemmas in social work practice with disabled people: The use of physical restraint This article discusses the use of restraint with disabled adults and children and uses a case study of one particular child to explore issues related to the use of restraint Impacting on diversity in practice in an outer London borough The purpose of this paper is to explore models of community outreach to BME and faith communities in the London Borough of Harrow.

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NEW PUBLICATIONS
Books and reports hot of the press Click the title to connect to the website entry Returning home from care: What's best for children NSPCC Evidence-Based Bullying Prevention Programs For Children and Youth Nutrition and Mental Performance: A Lifespan Perspective Guide to Early Psychological Evaluation: Adults Child Centered Play Therapy: A Clinical Session (DVD) The Teenager's Foster Carer's Handbook: Caring for Young People in Foster and Residential Care and Helping Them Become Adults: 4th Revised edition Mental Health Law in Nursing Group Schema Therapy For Borderline Personality Disorder: A Step-by-step Treatment Manual with Patient Workbook Restoring Resilience: Discovering Your Clients' Capacity for Healing
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