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How successful have smoke-free mental health units been?
Still in this month's British Journal of Psychiatry there has been research into the impact of the introduction of smoke-free in-patient wards. Read More...
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29 May 2009 4:30 PM
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Mad World
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Mental Health
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psychiatric wards
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smoking
One in 100 children have autism
A study in the British Journal of Psychiatry finds that 1% of children between 5 and 6 have an existing diagnosis on the autistic spectrum. Read More...
Published
29 May 2009 4:06 PM
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Mad World
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autism
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children
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Mental Health
Watch Max Clifford talk about social work and the media
Here are some clips of Max Clifford speaking at a recent Community Care Live event about how social work can improve its media coverage. Read More...
Published
28 May 2009 4:59 PM
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Mad World
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max clifford
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media
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Vote for the social workers in Council Worker of the Year Awards
The Local Government Channel does a council worker of the year award each year, and this year there are a couple of social workers involved in the "caring" section. Read More...
Published
28 May 2009 4:52 PM
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Mad World
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social work
Can mental illness be cured?
There's a great debate going on at Psych Central about this very topic. Read More...
Published
27 May 2009 6:07 PM
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Mad World
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Mental Health
Lesbian nun so drunk she fell over children
There's not much I can add to this story from the Belfast Telegraph . Read More...
Published
26 May 2009 3:14 PM
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Mad World
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ireland
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Politics
Psychiatrists' view of mental illness, violence and schizophrenia
Trainee psychiatrists tend to favour the biological model of mental illness, is the unsurprising finding of some new research , which I found via the BPS digest . What is perhaps more surprising is that some also endorse other models. I wonder how much...
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26 May 2009 2:58 PM
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Mad World
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Mental Health
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Deep brain stimulation and depression
Not much on my radar today but I did find this research study into the effects of deep brain stimulation for the treatment of depression. Read More...
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22 May 2009 12:53 PM
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Mad World
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deep brain stimulation
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depresson
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Online depression treatment and emotional intelligence
World of Psychology has some reflections on online depression treatments. It seems they can be effective for people who stick with them, but many people drop out. They have a place, I would suggest, alongside lots of other approaches. Read More...
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18 May 2009 12:23 PM
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Mad World
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layard
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Social workers on film
The Guardian has usefully created one of its photo galleries to illustrate how social workers have been depicted on film. Read More...
Published
18 May 2009 11:44 AM
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Mad World
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mariah carey
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Punching Michael Portillo on the nose...
By Keith Sellick ...something many of us have wanted to do but failing that we make do with this clip from 1997 However, Portillo fronted a Horizon programme on human beings capacity for violence this week. Read More...
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14 May 2009 12:54 PM
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Keith Sellick
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Autism recovery possible for minority of children
A psychology professor has presented some research to a conference which suggests that at least 1 in 10 children with autism can "recover" from it - mostly after receiving years of intensive behavioural therapy. Read More...
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11 May 2009 5:16 PM
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Mad World
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Mental health and the recession
The recession is affecting men's mental health, according to Mind . Yet men being men we are too embarrassed to seek help for it. Read More...
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11 May 2009 5:04 PM
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Mad World
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Mental Health
Alastair Campbell: no room for Mail in world governed by happiness
I don't know if Alastair Campbell was ever anything like Malcolm Tucker, the vicious In The Thick Of It spin doctor supposedly inspired by him. Read More...
Published
8 May 2009 3:36 PM
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Mad World
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happiness
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I wanna be a social worker!
Actually I don't, I'm happy staying as a community editor. However, one young American certainly does want to be a social worker. So much so, she's written a song about it. Read More...
Published
8 May 2009 1:09 PM
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Mad World
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social work
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USA
We must tackle the confusion over mental health treatment
Stuart Sorensen, a mental health nurse and trainer, posted a blog entry about how we understand schizophrenia last month on our Social Care Experts Blog. Read More...
Published
5 May 2009 2:26 PM
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Mad World
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icarus project
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Swine flu: some information from around the web
Swine flu or H1N1 will be on many people's minds over the weekend, so I thought I'd post a few links to some useful articles. Read More...
Published
1 May 2009 3:16 PM
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Mad World
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