Coercion in mental healthcare has led to ethical debate on its nature and use. However, few studies have explicitly explored patients’ moral evaluations of coercion. Aim: The purpose of this study is to increase understanding of patients’ moral views and considerations regarding coercion. Group cognitive remediation therapy for adults with obesity
Open access. The aim of this review is to make a state of the art of the potential influence of neuropsychiatric symptoms (NPs) on caregiver stress and vice versa.
Open access. The objective of this review is to critically examine, evaluate, and synthesize the literature on resilience in family caregiving for people with dementia.
Open access. Timely diagnosis of dementia is recommended in national strategies. To what extent is it occurring across Europe, what factors are associated with it, and what is the impact on carers emotions of quality of diagnostic disclosure?
Open access. Dementia is a major global health and social care challenge, and family carers are a vital determinant of positive outcomes for people with dementia. This study's aim was to develop a conceptual framework for the Quality of Life (QOL) of family carers of people with dementia.
A screening tool has been developed that will allow nurses to identify when unpaid carers are exhausted, feeling overwhelmed and in need of respite care or other support. To read the full article, log in using your NHS Athens
In the latest in a series of blogs about health care for ex-service personnel, wife Jane (not her real name) gives heartfelt insight into what it is like for the families of veterans scarred by what they have seen and been through
Melissa Bunting and Catharine Jenkins investigate the effect of caring among different cultural groups and recommend culturally congruent interventions to support carers. Login using your SSSFT NHS OpenAthens details for full text. SSOTP - request a copy of the article from the library http://bit.ly/1Xyazai
CPA Service User Champions, who have been trained by Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust’s Care Programme Approach / Mental Health Act team as part of our CCA award-winning course, are now using the skills that they have gained to deliver training and information to clinicians via the innovative development of snappy video clips.
A new training pack has been launched today to help reduce the stigma and discrimination sometimes experienced by people when using mental health services.
NHS England has worked with Time To Change, England’s biggest programme to challenge mental health stigma and discrimination, to develop and fund a project which aims to better understand the dynamics of relationships between people who use services and NHS professionals. Insight from research, focus groups and individual interviews, demonstrated that a high number of people using mental health services felt they experienced stigma and discrimination.
This insight helped Time To Change to work with mental health professionals and service users to identify examples of good practice as well as the barriers which can sometimes stand in the way of positive interactions. The resulting training pack focuses on the positive changes which can improve both team culture and working practices.
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Carers have an intimate knowledge of the patient and can support and comfort them. But these carers also need support, comfort and recognition, and at Worcestershire Health and Care Trust Older Patient Inpatient Mental Health Service, we are working to make this happen.
Carl is a mental health campaigner who loves poetry. Here he blogs about how reading, writing or even performing can help your wellbeing, and gives his tips on how to get started...
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M. Atzmueller, J. Baumeister, and F. Puppe. Medical Data Analysis, Proc. 4th Intl. Symposium on Medical Data Analysis (ISMDA 2003), LNCS 2868, page 23-30. (2003)
M. Atzmueller, J. Baumeister, and F. Puppe. Medical Data Analysis, Proc. 4th Intl. Symposium on Medical Data Analysis (ISMDA 2003), LNCS 2868, page 23-30. (2003)
M. Atzmueller, J. Baumeister, and F. Puppe. Artificial Intelligence in Medicine. Special Issue on Intelligent Data Analysis in Medicine, 37 (1):
19--30(2006)
M. Atzmueller, J. Baumeister, and F. Puppe. Proc. 15th Intl. Conference on Applications of Declarative Programming and Knowledge Management (INAP 2004), page 203--213. Potsdam, Germany, (2004)