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Department of Health

Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) data standard

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National News

New Dementia Treatments In Ten Years - Alzheimer's Society

An Alzheimer's Society research programme could lead to new dementia treatments within ten
years

Self harm rise among young in Wales 'alarming'

A mental health charity says a rise in hospital admissions for young people in Wales who self-
harm is alarming

Social care professionals opposed to outsourcing, finds survey

The transfer of social care services from councils to private providers has been bad for the
sector, and government plans to go further in this direction risk wreaking future damage, say
professionals

Survey Shows Doctors Believe NICE-Recommended Alzheimer's Disease Treatments

Could Reduce Antipsychotics Scripts
Nine out of ten (89%) doctors caring for patients with Alzheimer's disease believe the National
Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence guidance, published on March 23rd, 2011, will
improve patient care and almost two thirds (63%) think recommended treatments could reduce
the need for antipsychotic prescribing, a key Government goal.1

Famous Faces Appeal For 10,000 Volunteers To Raise Funds For Dementia, UK
A host of celebrities, including Fiona Phillips and Robbie Savage, are urging people to volunteer
for Alzheimer's Society and Alzheimer Scotland

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International News

New Framework Proposed For Manual Of Mental Disorders

The American Psychiatric Association today released the organizational framework proposed
for the fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM)

For Best Mental Health Programs, Researchers Say Schools Need Collaboration, Not
Packaged Solutions
Top researchers throughout the country have developed mental health programs to address
many of the most profound issues facing schools, including students' disruptive and aggressive
behavior, anger outbursts, anxiety, and suicide

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Addictions
Substance abuse, alcoholism,

Current and Promising Pharmacotherapies, and Novel Research Target Areas in the
Treatment of Alcohol Dependence: A Review
Harmful alcohol use is a risk factor in more than 60 diseases and injuries resulting in
approximately 2.5 million deaths per year worldwide

Aripiprazole and Ropinirole Treatment for Cocaine Dependence: Evidence from a Pilot
Study
Currently, there is no specific pharmacological therapy with established efficacy for the
treatment of cocaine dependence

Brain Region That Influences Gambling Decisions Pinpointed By Researchers

When a group of gamblers gather around a roulette table, individual players are likely to have
different reasons for betting on certain numbers

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Anxiety Disorders

Vigilant and avoidant attention biases as predictors of response to cognitive behavioral

therapy for social phobia
Attention bias for socially threatening information, an empirically supported phenomenon,
figures prominently in models of social phobia

Catastrophic Misinterpretations as a Predictor of Symptom Change During Treatment for

Panic Disorder
Cognitive models of panic disorder suggest that change in catastrophic misinterpretations of
bodily sensations will predict symptom reduction

Individually-tailored, Internet-based treatment for anxiety disorders: A randomized

controlled trial
Previous studies on Internet-based treatment with minimal to moderate therapist guidance have
shown promising results for a number of specific diagnoses

Dementia
Alzheimer’s

Being overweight 'linked to dementia'

Middle aged people who are overweight but not obese, are 71% more likely to develop
dementia than those with a normal weight

New Blood Test Detects Early Stages of Alzheimer's Disease

A new blood test that will diagnose Alzheimer's disease may soon hit the market, thanks to an
innovative study from the Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre

Feeding Tubes For Elderly Dementia Patients

In hundreds of interviews in five states with family members of persons who had advanced
dementia, researchers found that their decision-making process for whether to insert a feeding
tube often lacked necessary information for informed consent

Depression
Bipolar disorders

Possible neurobiological markers of bipolar disorder identified

A systematic review and meta-analysis of published studies has identified specific functional
and structural brain abnormalities that may be possible neurobiological markers for bipolar
disorder

Scientists Identify Genetic Risk for Major Depression

A new study reveals a novel gene associated with major depression

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ACC glia and pyramidal neuron alterations in mood disorder patients

Results from a UK study show alterations in the anterior cingulate cortex among patients with
mood disorders

Diet Link To Bipolar Disorder

New research reveals that there is a link between diet and bi-polar disorder, with sugar, caffeine
and a poor diet having a negative effect and increasing the mood swings of sufferers

Children at risk for BD have reduced levels of specific neurometabolites

The children of parents with bipolar disorder have decreased concentrations of specific
metabolites in the cerebellar vermis, suggesting decreased cellular metabolism

Dual Diagnosis

Osteoporosis risk increased in women with psychosis and SUD

Women with psychosis who also have a substance use disorder and those with a major mood
disorder are at significantly increased risk for osteoporosis

Hurt people who hurt people: Violence amongst individuals with comorbid substance
use disorder and post traumatic stress disorder
The association between substance use disorder and the perpetration of violence has been well
documented

Eating Disorders

Psychological factors and weight problems in adolescents. The role of eating problems,
emotional problems, and personality traits: the Young-HUNT study
The associations between psychological factors and weight problems in adolescents are not
conclusive

Guided self-help for disordered eating: A randomised control trial

The current randomised control trial evaluated a cognitive behavioural therapy-based GSH
pack, ‘Working to Overcome Eating Difficulties,’ delivered by trained mental health professionals
in 6 sessions over 3 months

Forensic Psychiatry

Factors predicting substance dependence and psychotropic medication use among

offenders in community corrections
Co-occurring substance abuse and mental illness is prevalent among criminal offenders, but

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little is known about risk factors for these co-occurring disorders in community corrections
population

Bullying as a predictor of offending, violence and later life outcomes

The main aim of this paper is to investigate to what extent self-reported bullying at age 14
predicts later offending, violence and other life outcomes

Learning Disabilities

Autism epidemic" challenged by UK research

A national UK survey out Monday found no traces of an "autism epidemic," despite earlier
reports that the developmental disorder has been rising quickly in recent decades

Diagnosis And Treatment Of ADHD Varies Significantly Across Countries

Social attitudes about Attention Deficit Disorder Hyperactivity Disorder and treatments vary by
country

Psychiatric and Autistic Comorbidity in Fragile X Syndrome Across Ages

Fragile X syndrome is caused by CGG trinucleotide repeat expansion within the fragile X mental
retardation 1 gene, when repeat number exceeds 200

'Most Adults With Autism Go Undiagnosed'- New Findings

Not a single person identified with autism or asperger's syndrome during a community survey in
England actually knew they had the condition

ADHD And Poor Emotional Control Combination Runs In Families

A subgroup of adults with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder also exhibit excessive
emotional reactions to everyday occurrences, and this combination of ADHD and emotional
reactivity appears to run in families

Obsessive Compulsive
Disorders

Stepped care versus standard cognitive–behavioral therapy for obsessive–compulsive

disorder: A preliminary study of efficacy and costs
Exposure and response prevention for obsessive–compulsive disorder is underutilized, in part
because of costs and time requirements

Latent class analysis of the Yale-Brown Obsessive-Compulsive Scale symptoms in

obsessive-compulsive disorder
Obsessive-compulsive disorder is phenomenologically heterogeneous, and findings of
underlying structure classification based on symptom grouping have been ambiguous to date

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Occupational Therapy

Occupational Therapy Interventions for Employment and Education for Adults With
Serious Mental Illness: A Systematic Review
In this systematic review, we investigated research literature evaluating the effectiveness of
occupational therapy interventions focusing on participation and performance in occupations
related to paid and unpaid employment and education for people with serious mental illness

Occupational Therapy Interventions for Recovery in the Areas of Community Integration

and Normative Life Roles for Adults With Serious Mental Illness: A Systematic Review
This systematic review investigated research literature evaluating the effectiveness of
occupational therapy interventions focusing on recovery in the areas of community integration
and normative life roles for people with serious mental illness

Post Traumatic
Stress Disorder

Soldiers with mental illness more often get PTSD

Preexisting mental health problems could be setting soldiers up for posttraumatic stress
disorder, or PTSD, when they return from the battlefield

Posttraumatic stress and alcohol use coping motives among a trauma-exposed

community sample: The mediating role of non-judgmental acceptance
The current investigation evaluated the incremental predictive validity of non-judgmental
acceptance in terms of alcohol use coping motives and the mediating role of non-judgmental
acceptance in the association between posttraumatic stress symptom severity and alcohol use
coping motives

Disasters and Youth: A Meta-Analytic Examination of Posttraumatic Stress

Findings underscore the importance of measurement considerations in post-disaster research

Psychology

Psychologists Show How 'Precarious' Manhood Is

Manhood is a "precarious" status - difficult to earn and easy to lose

The unconscious pursuit of emotion regulation: Implications for psychological health

Because of the central involvement of emotion regulation in psychological health and the role
that implicit (largely unconscious) processes appear to play in emotion regulation, implicit
emotion-regulatory processes should play a vital role in psychological health

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Recovering from negative events by boosting implicit positive affect

Upregulation of implicit positive affect (PA) can act as a mechanism to deal with negative affect

Schizophrenia

Gray matter reductions evident in patients at high risk for psychosis

Individuals at ultra-high risk for psychosis have specific gray matter volume reductions, with
those who go on to develop full-blown psychosis showing greater specific regional reductions
than those who do not

Schizophrenia link to autoimmune disorders supported

Results from a Taiwanese study add to the growing body of evidence for a link between
schizophrenia and autoimmune disorders

Hippocampal proteomic changes similar in bipolar disorder and schizophrenia

Patients with bipolar disorder and those with schizophrenia show similar patterns of proteomic
changes in the hippocampus relative to mental healthy individuals

Virtual Schizophrenia Helps Scientists Better Understand The Human Brain

Computer networks that can't forget fast enough can show symptoms of a kind of virtual
schizophrenia, giving researchers further clues to the inner workings of schizophrenic brains

HSV-1 linked to cognitive deficits in schizophrenia patients

Exposure to the herpes simplex virus type 1 (HSV-1) may contribute to the cognitive deficits in
patients with schizophrenia, research suggests

Social Work

The Role of Childhood Neglect and Childhood Poverty in Predicting Mental Health,
Academic Achievement
This study examines the roles of childhood neglect and childhood poverty (family and
neighborhood) in predicting Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Major Depressive Disorder,
academic achievement, and crime in young adulthood

Massive fall in child abuse deaths linked to new protection policies

Child deaths from abuse have fallen dramatically over the past 30 years, new figures show

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Websites & Journal Tocs

NEW PUBLICATIONS
Books and reports hot of the press
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Effectiveness of child and adolescent mental health services (camhs)

DfE statistics

Prevention in Mental Health: Lifespan Perspective, an Issue of Psychiatric Clinics

Creative Approaches in Dementia Care

Understanding Behaviour in Dementia That Challenges: A Guide to Assessment and

Treatment

Understanding Fragile X Syndrome: A Guide for Families and Professionals

Expanding The DSM: Diagnosing for Personal and Cultural Resilience

Schizophrenia: Cognitive Theory, Research, and Therapy

The Ethical Treatment of Depression: Autonomy Through Psychotherapy

International Handbook of Social Anxiety: Concepts, Research and Interventions

Relating to the Self and Shyness

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CONFERENCES
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CONFERENCES

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WEBSITES
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WELD: Working with Evidence about Learning Disabilities

USEFUL WEBSITES

JOURNAL TOC PAGES

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