There is limited information on the occurrence of ‘sudden gains’ – recognized improvements of substantial magnitude occurring between individual sessions of treatment. This study explores changes in anxiety across sessions of CBT for youth anxiety disorders to determine whether evidence exists for sudden gains in this population. To read the full article, log in using your SSSFT NHS OpenAthens details. SSOTP - You can request a copy of this article by replying to this email. Please ensure you are clear which article you are requesting.
Public Health England (PHE) has announced the 7 local authority areas that have been selected to take part in a randomised controlled trial of individual placement and support (IPS) for people in or dependent on either drugs, alcohol or both in community treatment services. [Includes Staffordshire]
For adults with schizophrenia who continue to have symptoms despite treatment with the antipsychotic drug clozapine, adding amisulpride (another antipsychotic) was not shown to improve their chance of responding.
People with ankylosing spondylitis showed improvement in their symptoms and their ability to perform day-to-day tasks when they did more exercise. Symptom and function scores improved by almost one point on a 10-point scale after 3 to 12 weeks of exercise.
Although this study is in rats and we cannot be sure the results will apply to people, the findings suggest the body is better at processing fats when it is at its most active.
because of the nature of this study, a cause and effect relationship hasn't been proven, no matter how plausible the link might seem.
This means the study doesn't provide strong evidence that smacking causes adverse mental health outcomes – but nevertheless, there is a link between the two.
We don't know whether different types of alcohol caused different emotions. Other factors are likely to be involved. It could be, for example, that people drank spirits while out dancing, which might make them feel energised, and drank red wine at home watching TV, when they were tired.
Mark Smith on recent service evaluation looking at common mental health conditions and psychotic experiences occurring at the same time in IAPT services.
The American Journal of Occupational Therapy; Bethesda Vol. 71, Iss. 6, (Nov/Dec 2017): 1-8.
With the likelihood that few students will have Level II fieldwork opportunities in traditional mental health care settings, one challenge for academic programs is ensuring students' entry-level competence in mental health skills and knowledge. [...]current fieldwork placements often do not provide opportunities for students to develop practice skills such as self-reflection, ethical reasoning, and compassionate care. No studies to date have described the attitudes of occupational therapy students toward people with intellectual disabilities (IDs). [...]studies of occupational therapy student attitudes toward people with disabilities either have been qualitative in nature, not used standard assessment measures, not used comparison groups, not provided means for assessing the relative merit of different instructional methods, relied on one-factor measures, or been survey-based exclusively or not measured intervention-oriented change over time.....To read the full article, log in using your NHS OpenAthens details.