Mental Health

2009

March

Multiple choice: A flexible way to improve mental health

January

Mental health treatments for those who abuse alcohol

2008

December

Helping people with mental health problems into supported accommodation

November

Helping people with mental health problems stop smoking

Setting up a group for young adults with a first episode of psychosis

September

Sussex Police work with vulnerable adults groups

Parents from ethnic minorities with mental health problems and their children

May

Collingham centre heals mentally ill children

Sheffield’s Pakistani community helped with mental illnes by Enhanced Pathways In Care project

April

Mental capacity – decisions to refuse treatment

Research Abstracts: New rules on mental capacity

March

Carers tap into dementia cafe chatroom

Iraq veterans helped by Combat Stress with mental health problems

Parents with mental health problems and their children

Research Abstracts: Impact on children’s live

Research Abstracts: African and Caribbean Mental Health

Commissioning mental health advocacy for African and Caribbean men

February

No service user participation without proper evaluation

Research Abstracts: User Involvement

Building Bridges: a Family Welfare Association project for children with parents who have mental health problems

January

Assessing mental capacity

Research Abstracts Assessing Capacity

2007

November

Maytree: a sanctuary for the suicidal

Research abstracts: Findings on mental health recovery

Recovery in mental health

Children with complex health and social care needs

Research abstracts: Children with complex needs

The Risk Factor: a woman with Downs syndrome develops delusional beliefs

October

Who self harms and why?

Research abstracts: Self harm

Where exactly should social work end and therapy begin?

Palliative care for dementia sufferers

Research abstracts: dementia and palliative care

Talking therapies for children with mental health problems: the obstacles

Mental health crisis among young people: research

Threat from the voice within

September

Mental health: training staff and users together – Kelvin Barton

Mental health problems in old age

Assessing the mental health needs of older people

Research Abstracts: Social workers’ assessments

Involvement of service users in social care research

August

Research: how to improve dementia services?

Mental health advocacy services for African-caribbean men

Therapy with Palestinian victims of torture

Practice panel: Dealing with a failing family

July

Support for carers of people with dementia

May

Mobile calming therapy unit wins award

Isabel Schwarz Travel Fellowship: How an Italian mental health visionary inspired Anne Kendall to make a trip to Trieste

Research: Conduct disorder programmes

Research Abstracts: Conduct disorders

Jill Manthorpe looks at research on suicide and depression among older people

April

Sarah Baalham: why voluntary organisations will have to ask themselves whether their main concern is their own survival or the best interests of their clients

March

Bipolar affective disorder. Practice Panel advises…

February

Risk Factor: Coalition of the caring

Practice Panel: a man with diabetes and stroke presents a tough case

Awards: How a social enterprise – the Pathways Community Interest Company – provides training to people with disabilities

My Practice – Giles Gardner

January

Practice panel: depression, bereavement and elderly people. Our multidisciplinary panel advises

My Practice – Mark Sloman

2006

December

Charity Christmas cards: how charitable are they?

October
Get me out of this house

September

Practice panel: advice on a case involving poor mental health and fire starting

Centre for the Development of Social Care Practice leads the way in university and local authority partnerships

August

Helping team members overcome the stress of restructuring of adult services demands openness and support

Communication is vital to social care department’s culture

July

Giles Gardner explains how social work placements for police officer trainees are helping challenge prejudices within the force

June

An assertive outreach team from the voluntary sector evaluates itself

My practice – Nichola Glover-Edge

May

No show means no help

Sorry, not my department

My practice – Panos Vostanis

March

Time to meet the parents

Food for thought

Listen and learn

February

My practice – Sarah Baalham

January

A life together or apart?

Who will believe him?

My practice – Mark Sloman

2005

December

Burden weighs heavily

November

Was he right to refuse

My practice – Chris Coates

October

After the fire

Just a bit eccentric?

Calming presence

September

Doctors orders overruled

Battered or confused?

Rapport in a storm

August

Is there an alternative

July

Words to the wise

My practice – Mark Sloman

June>

A life resurrected

My practice – Panos Vostanis

May

My practice – Mark Sloman

March

A sojourn at the villa

My practice – Panos Vostanis

February

Too close to the edge

January

It’s ok to say ‘I can’t cope’

Growing on the vyne

School band  (Community Care awards winner 2004 – mental health category)