Colin Parish

Dementia friendly
Mental Health Practice

Hospital wards should be adapted for dementia care

RCN to lobby for acute care patients with dementia

Child with mental health diagnosis
Mental Health Practice

Parents see mental health diagnosis as a ‘life sentence’

Results of a survey by MQ: Transforming Mental Health

ADHD
Mental Health Practice

Drug treatment of childhood ADHD levels off in UK

Review of ‘Latest trends in ADHD drug prescribing patterns in children in the UK’

Anxious woman
Mental Health Practice

Anxiety is more likely in under 35s

Study finds 4% of the population are affected by anxiety disorders

Poisoning
Mental Health Practice

Rise in UK teenage poisonings among girls

Review of ‘changes in poisonings among adolescents in the UK between 1992 and 2012

Geoff Brennan
Mental Health Practice

My job: mental health charity director Geoff Brennan

Geoff Brennan works anywhere there is a mental health ward or a mental health patient on a...

Dementia
Mental Health Practice

Hospital wards should be adapted for dementia care

RCN survey reveals that 45% of nurses think dementia will be the biggest health issue in the...

Comforting parents
Mental Health Practice

Diagnosis of mental illness seen as a ‘life sentence’ for children

Only about one third of parents think their child in getting effective help

Anxious
Mental Health Practice

Anxiety is more likely in under 35s

Research looked at 48 studies and suggests anxiety is more common than previously thought.

Attitude cover
Mental Health Practice

Prince says ‘no one should be bullied over sexuality’

Prince Williams speaks out and becomes first royal to appear on cover of Attitude magazine.

Health Equalities Framework
Learning Disability Practice

Making a huge difference

It was great to see the nurses behind the Health Equalities Framework (HEF) receive the RCNi Learning Disability Nursing award .

Stressed woman
Mental Health Practice

NMC hearings have a health risk

Nurses who are under investigation by the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) often have to wait months, even years, before their cases are heard. As you can imagine, waiting under such circumstances can take its toll on their mental health.

Learning Disability Practice

Nursing students urged to build a global network

Colin Parish reports from this year’s Positive Choices learning disability nursing students’ conference.

Truth concept
Mental Health Practice

Three cheers for the truth

It is refreshing to learn that a senior civil servant has been frank about the state of finances and the workforce in NHS mental health services.

Learning Disability Practice

Nurses grieve too

Nursing is a job in which the relationship between professional and client transcends normal social boundaries. This is because nurses remain with the people they support at every stage of their lives, including their deaths.

Learning Disability Practice

From cradle to grave

Learning disability nurses are different from their colleagues in other disciplines. Adult nurses look after sick adults, children’s nurses look after sick kids, and mental health nurses look after people with mental distress.

pill
Mental Health Practice

When the drugs don’t work

Feeling depressed has many causes, many of which are not obvious, writes Mental Health Practice editor Colin Parish

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