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I have been allowed to do this again, more out of necessity than the fact I was any good, but I will attempt to do it properly this time.
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Happy Saturday to you today. I write this as I am distracted by the Six Nations Rugby. The home countries are all playing today.
Thanks to Howard for pointing out that the BBC has a news segment on the need for greater regulation in psychotherapy. Good to see this issue getting an airing in the mainstream media.
As I currently have a cat preventing me from getting at the keyboard, let’s start off this week’s edition of TWIM with a cheery, mood-enhancing lolcat from I Can Has Cheezburger:
As well as the bipolar disorder research project mentioned by DeeDee Ramona, there’s also another one run by the University of Lancaster. They’ve sent me the following e-mail about it:
I am contacting you to ask if I can publicise a study myself and a number A researcher from the University of Cardiff came to see me today as I had volunteered to take part in their study on bipolar disorder. You can find out more about the study here in a press release from Cardiff Uni here: http://www.cardiff.ac.uk/news/articles/understanding-bipolar-disorder.html. The study website is here: http://bdrn.org/
They have 3000 participants already [...] In the comments thread The Shrink is demanding a Slapheads: Occupational Therapists post. I’ll broaden it slightly into Slapheads: Professions Allied to Medicine so we can also include physiotherapists, radiographers, clinical psychologists, pharmacists etc. A post on Slapheads: Social Workers will also come soon.
I’ll start by re-posting The Shrinks slaphead OT suggestions from [...] Lake Cocytus has an excellent post about the Mid-Staffordshire hospitals scandal. I couldn’t help noticing a slight difference in emphasis between the closing submission of the Mid Staffordshire Inquiry and the way it was reported by the BBC.
See if you can spot the differences… Occupational Therapists (OTs) are one of the great unsung heroes of the medical system. They play a key role in the rehabilitation and recovery of patients suffering from a variety of long term conditions. Unfortunately, they rarely get any credit for this, mainly because only people who have availed of their services or [...]
Thanks Lorna for summarising my earlier post into a pithy one liner.
“… failure to recognise that correctly identifying the problem does not make it magically go away …” It is just this kind of thing that really annoys nurses you know! You take something we have lovingly created, slaved over, researched thoroughly *cough* cast [...] One in Four is an excellent magazine – a fun, glossy lifestyle magazine that presents information about mental health issues in an accessible way. In the past they’ve features us, as well as regular contribution from chums of ours such as Seaneen. Therefore we’re sorry to hear that it’s having financial trouble.
Please read [...] Two cool things my CMHT are doing.
(Guest post by Bristol Michael)
The point of entry for most users to the mental health services, or so we are told, is the common or garden general practitioner. Now the good Dr Finlay of Tannochbrae, forever pestering Janet for his tea, is long dead and gone, giving way to a figure like, what, [...] Hello. This is my first ever blog roundup and go at TWIM. How hard can it be?
I thought it’d take some time, time that I have free at the moment, but Mental told me it would take longer. Well, maybe it would if I do it properly. I’ve just looked at the way Zed [...] At Mental Nurse we’ve repeatedly cited the Derek Gale case as evidence of the damage that can be caused by the unregulated nature of psychotherapy in Britain. Without proper accountability to a statutory regulator, abusive therapists can cause enormous harm to vulnerable people.
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