This study, conducted in Finland, is an attempt to quantify the impact of moral distress on social workers.
Moral distress is described as the sense that social workers (in this context) feel when they feel that they are not able to work in a ‘morally appropriate way’ either because of internal or external pressures and obstacles. In a world with increasing pressures and funding challenges, it is particularly apposite for the current climate of English social work practice.
he percentage of children in Reception Year2 who are obese has decreased to 9.1 per cent in 2014-15, according to new figures published by the Health and Social Care Information Centre (HSCIC) today.
The Department of Health has published its response to the Law Commission’s consultation on how the law should regulate deprivations of liberty (DoLS) for people who lack capacity to consent to their care and treatment arrangements.
The consultation proposes that DoLS should be replaced by a new system called ‘protective care’. It also proposes that there should be a new code of practice.
Open access. Patients admitted to a secure forensic hospital are at risk of a long hospital stay. Forensic hospital beds are a scarce and expensive resource and ability to identify the factors predicting length of stay at time of admission would be beneficial. The DUNDRUM-1 triage security scale and DUNDRUM-2 triage urgency scale are designed to assess need for therapeutic security and urgency of that need while the HCR-20 predicts risk of violence. We hypothesized that items on the DUNDRUM-1 and DUNDRUM-2 scales, rated at the time of pre-admission assessment, would predict length of stay in a medium secure forensic hospital setting.
Open access. The relationship between mental illness and violent crime is complex because of the involvement of many other confounding risk factors. In the present study, we analysed psychiatric and neurological disorders in relation to the risk of convictions for violent crime, taking into account early behavioural and socio-economic risk factors.
Social disability is prevalent in FEP, although distinct recovery profiles are evident. Where social disability is present on entry into EIP services it can remain stable, highlighting a need for targeted intervention. Library Services do not currently have access to this journal, but you can request a copy of the article online and we will try to get a copy to you: http://bit.ly/1Xyazai
Some patients are at higher risk of contact with criminal justice agencies when experiencing a first episode of psychosis.
Aims:To investigate whether violence explains criminal justice pathways (CJPs) for psychosis in general, and ethnic vulnerability to CJPs. Library Services do not currently have access to this journal, but you can request a copy of the article online and we will try to get a copy to you: http://bit.ly/1Xyazai
Shropshire Council, in partnership with local refuges that support victims of domestic violence and abuse, have today (Monday 14 December 2015) been given a share of a £3.5million Government grant to make sure that victims of domestic abuse get access to the support they need.
Supporting recovery is the aim of national mental health policy in many countries. However, only one measure of recovery has been developed in England: the Questionnaire about the Process of Recovery (QPR), which measures recovery from the perspective of adult mental health service users with a psychosis diagnosis. Library Services do not currently have access to this journal, but you can request a copy of the article online and we will try to get a copy to you: http://bit.ly/1Xyazai
Shropshire Council’s public health team are supporting Alcohol Concern’s 2016 Dry January campaign.
Dry January aims to show people the benefits of cutting down on their alcohol intake, whilst raising money for the charity which is dedicated to tackling the harm caused by alcohol to individuals, families and society.
Three lectures, of between 20 and 30 minutes each, will be presented from 6.30pm to 8pm. Each lecture will be followed by an opportunity to put questions to the speakers.
The lectures will be presented by:
Prof Elizabeth Mason-Whitehead on ‘From Stigma to Equality (in Health and Society)’
Prof John Williams on ‘Frontiers in Molecular Medicine’
Prof Ben Green and Dr June Keeling on ‘Domestic Violence and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)’
Telford & Wrekin Council and partner organisations have been highly commended in national award scheme run by the Health Service Journal.
The council was short-listed in two categories and received the highly commended for making connections for family carers in the borough.
Open access. Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) has become a major aspect of the work of child and adolescent psychiatrists and paediatricians in the UK. In Scotland, Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services were required to address an increase in referral rates and changes in evidence-based medicine and guidelines without additional funding. In response to this, clinicians in Dundee have, over the past 15 years, pioneered the use of integrated psychiatric, paediatric, nursing, occupational therapy, dietetic and psychological care with the development of a clearly structured, evidence-based assessment and treatment pathway to provide effective therapy for children and adolescents with ADHD.
Telford & Wrekin Council has said its commitment to keeping full 24/7 accident and emergency services at Telford’s Princess Royal Hospital remains as strong as ever.
'What this study adds A substantial positive association was seen between use of warfarin with glipizide/glimepiride and hospital admission/emergency department visits for hypoglycemia and related diagnoses, particularly in patients starting warfarin. The findings suggest the possibility of a significant drug interaction between these medications.'