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

No 322 No 322

s Octtober 31sttt 2011 Oc ober 31s 2011

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CONTENT CONTENT
News from all corners of the world

Department of Health

Response to the offender personality disorder consultation Children and teenagers to benefit from successful adult mental health therapy

Commissioning of substance misuse services from April 2013

Payment by Results update October 2011

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Regional News

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National News

Talking therapies for children receive 32m boost The government has announced a 32 million investment in psychological therapies, including talking therapies, for children and young people with mental health problems Council must pay 320,000 for child abuse in 1990s A council has been found liable for the sexual abuse of four children by their father spanning 15 years because of poor social work Dilnot proposals 'will not deliver insurance market for care' The insurance industry is unlikely to back the Dilnot Commission's proposals to reform adult care funding, according to a think-tank chief PCTs facing more appeals against continuing care decisions The NHS faced more appeals against decisions to deny people continuing healthcare funding last year and a greater proportion were successful

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Legal highs need more controls, say drug council The sale, supply and impact of so-called "legal highs" should be more controlled, the government's drugs advisers have recommended Social workers underestimate the 'fragility' of babies Social workers and other professionals are not always quick enough in their response to concerns about children under a year old because they underestimate the fragility of babies, according to an evaluation of serious case reviews Lansley: 500 nursing homes face dignity and nutrition probes Nutrition and patient dignity standards at 500 nursing homes are to be checked over the next six months, health secretary Andrew Lansley said today Mental health patient Albert Haines loses bid for release Mental health patient Albert Haines has had his bid to overturn his detention in hospital rejected by the first tribunal to be held in public Supporting People cuts 'put vulnerable people at risk and shunt costs' Supporting People cuts will put vulnerable people at risk and shunt costs on to other parts of the care and support system, councils have warned Social workers 'key to keeping children out of care' Ofsted has backed the importance of the social worker relationship with families, finding it is the most effective way to prevent children from entering care Centre welcomes Government investment in psychological therapies for children and young people with mental health problems This important investment by Government will not only improve children and young peoples mental health and emotional well being, but their subsequent life chances. Centre for Mental Health responds to Government plans for Personality Disorder Services in Prisons The Department of Health today published its response to a consultation it carried out on plans to reshape personality disorder services in prisons in England Preventing and reducing domestic violence between intimate partners: consultation on the draft scope NICE is developing public health programme guidance on Domestic violence: how social care, health services and those they work with can identify, prevent and reduce domestic violence between intimate partners.

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International News

First Generic Olanzapine For Schizophrenia And Bipolar Disorder Treatment Approved By FDA Generic versions of olanzapine tablets (Zyprexa) and olanzapine orally disintegrating tablets (Zyprexa Zydus) for the treatment of schizophrenia and bipolar disorder have been approved by the US Food and Drug Administration

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Interactive Virtual Environment Can Help Autistic Children To Develop Social Skills The benefits of virtual worlds can be used to help autistic children develop social skills beyond their anticipated levels, suggest early findings

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RESEARCH RESEARCH

A Compassion-Focused Approach to Nonsuicidal Self-Injury Mental health counselors working with adolescents and young adults often encounter nonsuicidal self-injury Gender and Diagnosis of Mental Disorders: Implications for Mental Health Counseling The DSM-IV-TR and epidemiological studies have documented disproportionate gender-related prevalence rates for various mental disorders

Addictions
Substance abuse, alcoholism, Pot Can Mimic Brain Changes Seen in Schizophrenia Rats given a marijuana-like drug showed disrupted communications between brain regions, or 'cognitive chaos' Affective disorders linked to increased risk for alcohol dependence Results from an Australian study show that individuals with affective or anxiety disorders are at increased risk for developing alcohol dependence

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Endothelial Dysfunction and High Cardiovascular Risk Profile in Severe Alcoholics Improve Only Partially Following a Medium-Term Alcohol Withdrawal Little is known about brachial artery flow-mediated vasodilatation (FMD) in active and mediumterm withdrawing heavy alcoholics

Anxiety Disorders

Attention Training Toward and Away from Threat in Social Phobia: Effects on Subjective, Behavioral, and Physiological Measures of Anxiety Social phobics exhibit an attentional bias for threat in probe detection and probe discrimination paradigms Intensive group cognitive therapy and individual cognitive therapy for social phobia: Sustained improvement at 5-year follow-up Little is known about the long-term outcome of treatments for social phobia

Dementia
Alzheimers

Pharmacological treatment of Alzheimer disease To review the different pharmacological approaches to the cognitive, functional, and behavioural manifestations of Alzheimer disease Nonpharmacological treatment of Alzheimer disease To review the key nonpharmacological treatment approaches to the cognitive and functional symptoms of Alzheimer disease Many Alzheimer's Patients Get Drugs With Opposing Effects, Study Finds In clinical trials, cholinesterase inhibitors show modest effects against the functional and cognitive decline of people with Alzheimer's disease Mood, Cognition And Sleep Patterns Improve In Alzheimer's Patients After Cataract Surgery Researchers found that patients with mild Alzheimer's disease whose vision improved after cataract surgery also showed improvement in cognitive ability, mood, sleep patterns and other behaviors

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Depression
Bipolar disorders

The Antidepressant Treatment Response Index and Treatment Outcomes in a PlaceboControlled Trial of Fluoxetine Recent research aims at developing a biomarker to predict antidepressant treatment outcomes in major depressive disorder Most smokers with bipolar disorder want to quit Tobacco use is common among individuals with bipolar disorder, although most express a desire to quit the habit Suicide, Warning Signs And Issues Faced By Friends And Family A study focusing on the family and friends of people who were suicidal has highlighted the main challenges they face when trying to judge whether a person is in danger and decide what they should do about it Association Between Daily Smoking, Low Mastery And Repeat Episodes Of Depression Previous depression, daily smoking and a lack of control over life circumstances - or "low mastery" - are risk factors for repeat episodes of depression 'Trading Places' Most Common Pattern for Couples Dealing With Male Depression University of British Columbia researchers have identified three major patterns that emerge among couples dealing with male depression. These can be described as "trading places," "business as usual" and "edgy tensions." Suicide attempts: prevention of repetition To present an overview of promising strategies to prevent repetition of suicidal behaviours Depression risk no higher for older first-time mums Women who have their first baby at an older age aren't at any greater risk of postpartum depression than their younger counterparts Brain Development In Rats Stunted By Perinatal Antidepressant Rats exposed to an antidepressant just before and after birth showed substantial brain abnormalities and behaviors Association between antidepressant resistance in unipolar depression and subsequent bipolar disorder: cohort study People with major depressive disorder who fail to respond to adequate trials of antidepressant treatment may harbour hidden bipolar disorder Gene Regulatory Protein Is Reduced In Bipolar Disorder Low levels of a brain protein that regulates gene expression may play a role in the origin of bipolar disorder, a complex and sometimes disabling psychiatric disease Cerebellar volume reduced in BD I patients Results from a Brazilian study suggest that cerebellar volume is reduced in patients with bipolar I disorder (BD I)

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Dual Diagnosis

Observations on alcohol-related mental illness in the North West of England: better use of service data can help tackle health inequalities and improve commissioning The North of England characteristically has higher levels of alcohol-related harm and higher levels of mental illness compared with the South Service provider response to mental health and alcohol in the North West Region of England: a scoping exercise The purpose of this paper is to obtain an insight into how mental health and alcohol services are responding to people presenting with alcohol and mental health problems, as a part of a wider North West Alcohol and Mental Health Project commissioned by Drink Wise North West and Alcohol Improvement Programme Review of dual diagnosis commissioning in the North West of England The aim of the paper is to assess the commissioning systems in place for the commissioning of local dual diagnosis interventions and to make recommendations for the establishment of innovative practice beacon sites Substance use in early intervention services for psychosis This paper seeks to outline the nature of early intervention (EI) services in psychosis and to discuss substance use in clients in this setting Prefrontal cortex activation reduced in euthymic BD patients during emotion recognition Results from a brain imaging study suggest that amygdala dysfunction may be a state-related abnormality in bipolar disorder patients, whereas ventrolateral prefrontal cortex dysfunction may be a trait-related abnormality

Eating Disorders

Study Shows Why Underrepresented Men Should Be Included In Binge Eating Research Binge eating is a disorder which affects both men and women, yet men remain underrepresented in research Is there evidence for the use of art therapy in treatment of psychosomatic disorders, eating disorders and crisis? A comparative study of two different systems for evaluation As with any type of treatment the requirement for evidence based practice has also affected art therapy when used as an intervention

Forensic Psychiatry

An evaluation of the impact of a social inclusion programme on occupational functioning for forensic service users The rehabilitation of forensic service users with serious mental illness is an emerging specialism in occupational therapy
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Helping Society's Outcasts: The Impact of Counseling Sex Offenders The purpose of this qualitative study, which uses a constructivist approach, was to explore the impacts on mental health counselors of counseling convicted sex offenders

Learning Disabilities

Could Airway Abnormality Point to Autism? Researcher noticed difference in lung structure of children with autism spectrum disorder ADHD Drug More Effective In Children With Certain Dopamine System Gene Variants Children with certain dopamine system gene variants have an improved response to methylphenidate - the most commonly prescribed medication for Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder - in a finding that could help eliminate the guesswork from prescribing effective medications for children with ADHD Training Parents Effective For Treating Young Children With ADHD Formal training in parenting strategies is a low-risk, effective method for improving behavior in preschool-age children at risk for developing attention deficit hyperactivity disorder Do persons with intellectual disability and limited verbal capacities respond to trauma treatment There is not one case report of successful trauma treatment with the use of an evidence-based treatment method in people with substantially limited verbal capacities The Fragile X-associated Disorders: Time to Order Fragile X DNA Testing The fragile X mental retardation 1 protein (FMRP) is a master protein regulating the transport and subsequent translation of hundreds of messenger ribonucleic acids (mRNAs) into proteins important for synaptic plasticity that impacts intelligence and emotion

Nursing Research

The Nottingham Health Profile: a feasible questionnaire for nursing home residents? The Nottingham Health Profile (NHP) assesses perceived emotional, social, and physical health problems and the extent to which such problems affect daily activities Physical and mental health status and health behaviors of childhood cancer survivors: Findings from the 2009 BRFSS survey The growing number of childhood cancer survivors makes examination of their current physical and mental health status and health behaviors an important concern Inequity in provision of and access to health visiting postnatal depression services This paper is a report of a study of equity in the provision of a public health nursing postnatal depression service

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Obsessive Compulsive Disorders

Skin picking and trichotillomania in adults with obsessive-compulsive disorder The objective of this study was to compare patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) with pathologic skin picking (PSP), with or without trichotillomania, and patients with OCD without such comorbidities, for demographic and clinical characteristics The nature and correlates of avoidance in obsessive-compulsive disorder Avoidance in obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) has been neglected by research Obsessive-compulsive personality traits: How are they related to OCD severity? Previous research has demonstrated that comorbid obsessive-compulsive personality disorder (OCPD) in patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is associated with greater overall OCD severity, functional impairment, and poorer treatment outcomes

Occupational Therapy

An evaluation of the impact of a social inclusion programme on occupational functioning for forensic service users The rehabilitation of forensic service users with serious mental illness is an emerging specialism in occupational therapy A multicentre RCT on community occupational therapy in Alzheimer's disease: 10 sessions are not better than one consultation To compare the benefits and harms of a Dutch 10-session Community Occupational Therapy programme for patients with Alzheimer's disease with the impact of a one session consultation at home in German routine healthcare

Post Traumatic Stress Disorder

Teenage Girls And Senior Students Suffered Highest Levels Of PTSD After Major Earthquake Researchers who spoke to nearly 2,000 teenagers three months after an 8.0 earthquake found high level of post-traumatic stress disorder, especially among girls and senior students Predicting Posttraumatic Stress Following Pediatric Injury: A Systematic Review Specific variables may be useful in predicting posttraumatic stress following injury, which are discussed in terms of existing models of pediatric traumatic stress Attentional control as a moderator of the relationship between posttraumatic stress symptoms and attentional threat bias Attentional threat bias has been suggested as one factor leading to maintenance and exacerbation of posttraumatic stress symptoms

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Psychology

Fizzy Drinks Linked To Teen Violence More blows to the fizzy, sugary drink industry with research suggesting that teens who drink a can a day of soft drink or around five cans per week are more likely to become aggressive, even carrying weapons and being physically violent with friends, fellow students and family members BPA Exposure In Womb Linked To Behavior Problems In Young Girls Exposure to BPA in the womb is linked to behavioral and emotional difficulties in pre-school children, and girls in particular Harsh Discipline Fosters Dishonesty In Young Children Young children exposed to a harshly punitive school environment are more inclined to lie to conceal their misbehaviour than are children from non-punitive schools Study Uncovers Clues to Young Children's Aggressive Behavior Children who are persistently aggressive, defiant, and explosive by the time they're in kindergarten very often have tumultuous relationships with their parents from early on

Schizophrenia

Anticipated discrimination common in schizophrenia patients Patients with schizophrenia commonly anticipate discrimination, but such anticipation is not necessarily associated with the experience of discrimination A systematic review of meta-analyses of the efficacy of oral atypical antipsychotics for the treatment of adult patients with schizophrenia This paper is a review of meta-analyses of oral atypical antipsychotics for the treatment of schizophrenia, located through PubMed and the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews Reduced MMN amplitude may predict frank psychosis in at risk patients Among patients with an at-risk mental state mismatch negativity amplitude alterations may help identify those who are likely to develop full-blown psychosis Clozapine protects bone mineral density in female patients with schizophrenia Decreased bone mineral density (BMD) is common in patients with schizophrenia; however, the pathogenesis is unclear Schizophrenia patients have small but good friendship networks People with schizophrenia have a significantly smaller number of friends than other people, although the quality of such friendships is generally high Suicide risk remains elevated in older schizophrenia patients The increased risk for suicide among individuals with schizophrenia remains elevated in older patients, research shows

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Social Work

Child Abuse and Neglect, MAOA, and Mental Health Outcomes: A Prospective Examination Studies have examined the interaction of MAOA genotype with childhood maltreatment in relation to depressive symptomatology and alcohol abuse with conflicting findings Implementing a Therapeutic Team Parenting Approach to Fostering: The Experiences of One Independent Foster-Care Agency This paper reports some of the findings from a study commissioned by an independent fostercare agency (IFA), to examine the support services offered to foster-carers and the young people in their care Acceptance and Commitment Therapy for Psychological and Physiological Illnesses: A Systematic Review for Social Workers Social workers provide services to a variety of clients and are challenged with finding interventions that meet the multifaceted needs of diverse populations

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Consideration of the Novel Psychoactive Substances (Legal Highs) Home Office The early years of the DSPD (Dangerous and Severe Personality Disorder) Programme: results of two process studies Ministry of Justice Effectiveness of Second-generation Antidepressants in Adult Depression Treatment Critical Introduction to DSM Children & Disasters: Preparedness, Response & Recovery Dance of Sleeping & Eating Among Adolescents: Normal & Pathological Perspectives

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The Older Adult Psychotherapy Treatment Planner: 2nd Revised edition Social Determinants & Mental health Dementia: Non-Pharmacological Therapies International Handbook of Social Anxiety: Concepts, Research and Interventions Relating to the Self and Shyness Antidepressants Therapy & Risk of Suicide Among Patients With Major Depressive Disorders

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