The implications of adopting a human rights approach to recovery in practice
This article proposes a human rights-based definition of recovery in response to the...
09 May 2014
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The power of the media to shape perceptions of mental illness
Headlines in the press that include words such as ‘psycho’, ‘bonkers’ or ‘madman’ have been...
09 May 2014
Care of patients in Malawi who have HIV/AIDS and mental health problems
Aim This study investigated the support that general nurses in the Blantyre District of...
09 Apr 2014
Service users’ disclosure practices following discharge from hospital
Using qualitative data collected from 31 participants, this article describes mental health...
09 Apr 2014
The recovery orientation of patients and staff in a high secure hospital
Before and after introducing the recovery approach at Broadmoor Hospital the views of...
09 Apr 2014
Decision making, responsibility and accountability in community mental health teams
Community mental health teams comprise many professionals who share the common goal of...
09 Apr 2014
Provision of clinical supervision for staff working in mental health services
A questionnaire was used to investigate the provision of clinical supervision for nurses and...
09 Apr 2014
Helping people with serious mental illness to cut down or stop smoking
The prevalence of smoking in people with serious mental illness is up to 5.3 times higher...
12 Mar 2014
Evaluation of nursing students’ work experience through the use of reflective journals
Aims The aim of this study was to explore the effects of a pilot clinical community mental...
12 Mar 2014
Contraception needs of women attending drug and alcohol treatment centres
Although women using drug and alcohol services are at higher risk of unplanned pregnancies...
12 Mar 2014
Animal hoarding: devastating, complex, and everyone’s concern
Little is understood about animal hoarding, but it is believed to occur in most communities...
12 Mar 2014
The use of music and singing to help manage anxiety in older adults
The number of older adults in the UK is increasing, and they are vulnerable to long-term...
13 Feb 2014
Evaluation of a study day on child and adolescent mental health services
Child and adolescent mental health is a specialty that can fall between children’s and...
13 Feb 2014
Promoting mental health and wellbeing in practice
Literature on mental health promotion and wellbeing stresses the importance of inherent...
13 Feb 2014
Staff attitudes towards people with borderline personality disorder
Despite significant changes to policy, legislation and treatment pathways for people with...
13 Feb 2014
Improving patient safety and quality of care for patients receiving electroconvulsive...
A variety of psychiatric disorders have been treated with electroconvulsive therapy (ECT)...
13 Feb 2014
Compulsive hoarding syndrome: engaging patients in treatment
The safety and quality of life of an individual, their family members and others can be...
01 Dec 2013
Diagnostic overshadowing: a potential barrier to physical health care for mental health...
Diagnostic overshadowing occurs when symptoms of physical illness are attributed to the...
01 Dec 2013