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- Unfortunately SSOTP do not plan to take library services from the SSSFT library services during 2017/18. Sadly this means that we will be discontinuing this weekly bulletin. If you are an SSSFT member of staff subscribed to this bulletin, please reply to this email letting us know what areas of the update you are interested in and we can discuss the best way of keeping you updated in this area.
- Short video explaining this personality disorder, from the perspective of a service user.
- Written by two specialist speech and language therapists, Matthew Mills and Gillie Stoneham, The Voice Book for Trans and Non-Binary People explains how voice and communication therapy can help transgender and non-binary people to find their authentic voice. The book gives a thorough account of the voice and communication therapy process, from understanding the vocal mechanism through to assimilating new vocal skills and new vocal identity into everyday situations, and includes exercises to change pitch, resonance and intonation.
- The Care Quality Commission (CQC) has today (Friday, June 2) published its report on the trust, which provides mental health services in Sussex and specialist community mental health services for children and young people in Hampshire and Kent and Medway. These include two adult social care services and primary medical services for HMP Lewes and HMP Ford.
- The aim of this study was to illuminate the meaning of crucial attributes in nursing leadership toward an ethical care of patients in psychiatric in-patient settings. To read the full article, log in using your SSSFT NHS OpenAthens details
- Unfortunately SSOTP do not plan to take library services from the SSSFT library services during 2017/18. Sadly this means that we will be discontinuing this weekly bulletin. If you are an SSSFT member of staff subscribed to this bulletin, please reply to this email letting us know what areas of the update you are interested in and we can discuss the best way of keeping you updated in this area.
- Our Trust, along with Surrey County Council and Guildford and Waverley CCG, has launched a new service that offers 10-18 year olds a place to talk about things they are struggling to deal with. The Haven, based at the Discovery Centre in Guildford, is open for a two year trial period to give children and young people a chance to meet other young people as well as get help with any difficulties they may have.
- To review and critically appraise the existing evidence on integration of sexually transmitted infection (STI) services into HIV care and treatment services for women living with HIV. Open Access Article
- Practice Innovations2.2 (Jun 2017): 66-79. Although guidelines for culturally competent suicide risk management are sparse, recent advances in theory and assessment provide direction for culturally competent practice. The Cultural Theory and Model of Suicide (Chu, Goldblum, Floyd, & Bongar, 2010) was one of the first comprehensive efforts to provide a framework that guides an understanding of how culture influences suicide risk across multiple cultural identities. The Cultural Assessment of Risk for Suicide (CARS), a 39-item self-report measure assessing culturally specific suicide risk factors, was developed based on the Cultural Theory and Model of Suicide.To read the full article, log in using your NHS OpenAthens details.
- South London’s first Finnish-style Baby Box programme with a new focus on supporting parents’ mental health has been launched by the Maudsley. As part of Baby Box University, an online resource to help with pregnancy and parenting, families will be able to access information from Maudsley clinicians on mental health issues, such as anxiety, postnatal depression and bonding with baby.
- Somerset Partnership NHS Foundation Trust is introducing a new approach to dementia assessment and treatment for patients in Yeovil and the surrounding areas in response to continued difficulties in recruiting registered mental health nurses to Magnolia Ward.
- Live swing music, retro food and a good old fashioned knees-up was the order of the day at a 1940s inspired tea dance held for people experiencing memory problems in Balby. Staff dressed up in vintage clothes and patients and carers enjoyed dancing and music of the era provided by local entertainer the ‘Singing Major’, before tucking into meal of corned beef hash at the event held by the Memory Therapy Complex Care Service, at Forest Gate Day Hospital on the Tickhill Road site of Rotherham Doncaster and South Humber NHS Foundation Trust (RDaSH).
- Parkinson’s disease (PD) with mild cognitive impairment (MCI-PD) or dementia (PDD) and dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB) are characterised by motor and ‘non-motor’ symptoms which impact on quality of life. Treatment options are generally limited to pharmacological approaches. We developed a psychosocial intervention to improve cognition, quality of life and companion burden for people with MCI-PD, PDD or DLB. Open Access Article
- Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology85.7 (Jul 2017): 653-663. Objective: In a randomized clinical trial, we compared the efficacy of cognitive–behavioral therapy (CBT) and psychodynamic therapy for adult outpatient depression on measures of psychopathology, interpersonal functioning, pain, and quality of life. To read the full article, log in using your NHS OpenAthens details.
- Clinical Psychologist Dr Daniel Freeman is interviewed about how VR can be a healthcare tool.
- We’re making great progress in joining up GP, community, mental health, hospital and social care services and in helping our communities live healthier and more independent lives. Leading the way as one of the first Accountable Care Systems will give us greater control, freedom and added pace to our shared work, for example by providing more care closer to home to reduce length of stay in hospital, GPs and mental health teams working alongside hospital teams in A&E, and simplifying/streamlining care for people with long term conditions such as diabetes.
- Journal of Psychotherapy Integration27.2 (Jun 2017): 225-235. The psychotherapy field is devoting considerable attention to (a) elucidating and harnessing intervention mechanisms, (b) adopting a dimensional approach to assessment and treatment personalization through measurement-based care, and (c) studying the implementation of evidence-based practices. Given these foci, as well as the inherent complexities embedded in them, psychotherapy integration will continue to play a critical role in the field’s progress. In this article, I assert that an integrative approach has and will continue to be at the leading edge of psychotherapy research, practice, and training. To read the full article, log in using your NHS OpenAthens details.
- This research aims to determine the long-term impact of the Bloor Street Viaduct suicide barrier on rates of suicide in Toronto and whether media reporting had any impact on suicide rates. Open Access Article
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