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2008:
May
29: Triple prison mental health staff, urges charity
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this will ensure those diagnosed with severe mental illness get
equivalent level of service as patients in community, states report.
May
15: Don't charge people with mental health problems for overdrafts,
charity tells banks -
more than half of Mind survey respondents say they have gone without
food due to crippling debt.
May
15: Don't charge people with mental health problems for overdrafts,
charity tells banks -
more than half of Mind survey respondents say they have gone without
food due to crippling debt.
 May
1: Psychologist's non-drug approach provokes storm of reactions
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psychiatrists call NHS clinician's work “dangerous”.
But other professionals give support
Comment:
April
18: Underground recovery - Clinical
psychologist Rufus May
explains why, when using a non-drug approach to help a doctor who
heard voices, he had no choice but to work in secret.
 April
11: Launch inquiry into social worker stabbing, says MP - Philip
Ellison, 47, left, killed during a visit to Preston supported
housing for people with mental health problems
Comment:
April
9, 2008: This tide's already changed
The recovery approach in mental health is not new. Our research-based
recovery model has been operating across the world for 10 years,
say Phil
Barker and Poppy Buchanan-Barker.
 April
2: Mental health TV drama seen by 1.3 million -
Poppy Shakespeare was a dramatisation of the book, left,
by Clare Allen who spent ten years as a patient at a London day
centre. What did you
think?
March
26: More people should have therapy for "problem anger”
urges charity - there is mounting evidence linking anger with
heart disease, stroke, cancer and violence, states report
March
20: 'Recovery' approach in mental health is idea 'whose time has
come'
- charity bids to present principles behind “empowering”
philosophy of care
March
20: Psychiatric patients launch test case for right to smoke while
detained
- patients could be only group of people banned from smoking "in
the privacy of their own home", judges told
 Feb
29: New therapists to "cure" 450,000 depressed and anxious
people in three years, says government - trainee psychologists,
nurses and graduate workers will each have up to 250 patients per
year, Alan Johnson, left, announces
Feb 1: Lewis doubts worth of Henderson Hospital
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minister questions effectiveness of underthreat therapeutic community
Jan
31: It's no joke -
website visitors reprimand authors of offensive comments after fire
at Southampton psychiatry unit
 Jan
16: Stigma is no laughing matter -
Adam
James
profiles Sue Baker, head of the largest ever campaign to tackle
the stigma linked to mental health
 Jan
16: 'The Henderson saved my life' - here's why the acclaimed
personality disorder unit
should be saved, writes Kath Lovell
Jan
10: Private psychiatric units increasingly used to detain patients
- new figures show 24 per cent increase of detentions in independent
hospitals
Mental
health comment:
Jan
10, 2008: The wrong advice - The national clinical guideline
on depression is flawed, acts as a mouthpiece for pharmaceutical
firms and pays lip service to the views of service users. We must
now challenge it, says Malcolm Learmonth
2007:
Dec
18: Government is two years late on mental health home treatment
promise - finds the National Audit Office
Nov
29: People with mental health problems experience "extreme"
level of victimisation - most have suffered theft, been attacked,
harassed, sexually assaulted or raped by people in their own community,
according to new report.
 Nov
29: Man names himself after psychiatric hospital to combat stigma
- Brendan Curran is now Craig Dunain, the name of the former psychiatric
hospital in Inverness
 Nov
14: Woman gives harrowing account of forcible sterilisation when
a psychiatric patient -
Dorothea Buck-Zerchin's first-hand description of how, aged 19,
she was sterilised in a German hospital in 1936 during Nazi rule.
Nov 14: Screen for mental health problems before making ASBOs, says
charity - stop “fast-tracking
vulnerable individuals into the criminal justice system, and to
prison” says Sainsbury Centre for Mental Health
Mental
health comment:
Oct 31: Getting
personal - Stop the psychological therapy "brand warfare"
and recognise a therapist's personal qualities are more important
than their theoretical model, argues Martin
Seager,
who helps advise the government on how to make mental health services
more therapeutic
Oct
25: Extra 3,700 psychological therapists to be recruited into NHS
- Health Secretary Alan Johnson, pictured left, also promises
that average waiting times for psychological therapies to drop from
18 months to “a few weeks”
July
26: People wait up to three-and-a-half years for psychological therapy
- figures from Derbyshire Mental Health Trust come at time when
government is promising to increase access to psychological therapies
July
26: Biggest ever campaign to combat mental illness stigma launched
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announcement on heels of research claiming an increase in prejudice
over last ten years.
May
24: Countryside exercise should be frontline treatment for mental
health problems, says charity - "ecotherapy" includes
walking in a park, flying a kite or gardening therapy
May
16: Hewitt promises 10 more psychological therapy centres in England
March
29: Cognitive behavioural therapy via computer to be available from
next month to depressed - critics, however, say computerised
therapy is dehumanising.
 Feb
28: Consider ECT for severely depressed pregnant women, psychiatrists
told - new guidelines issued for women with prenatal or antenatal
mental health problems
Jan
25: Psychologist who allegedly insulted client ordered to undergo
supervision -
depressed client told he was a “wanker” and “waste
of space”, conduct committee hears
2006:
Nov
10: NHS failing on psychological therapies, claim charities
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government announces, however, that new psychological therapies
service has been used by 1,000 people in three months
Nov
10: Government bids to give people with mental health problems
more treatment choice - but campaigners question government
committment
Feature
Nov 9: Are homicides by people with mental health problems preventable?
Tony Maden believes recommendations he submitted to the government
could result in a cut in homicide rate by psychiatric patients
of 10 per cent in five years. Is he realistic?
Video
snippets:
Nov 8: On the
spot - exclusive video snippets from a panel question and answer
session at the Mental Health Today conference in London. Including,
comments on the underthreat Henderson Hospital personality disorder
service in Surrey.
Oct
30: Mental health services in UK are "model" for Europe,
says WHO regional adviser - "There is so much money [in
England] in mental health," says Matt Muijen.
Oct 30: Suicides at
lowest level since 1995
- average is now 8.5 deaths per 100,000
Feature:
Oct 24: "If
this effected any other group of people, society would be up in
arms" - People diagnosed with a mental illness have shockingly
bad physical health. Adam James investigates
whether improvements being made will be enough to save the NHS
from being sued for discrimination
Sept
20: How professionals assess risk of psychiatric patient violence
to be reformed in bid to reduce homicides - but critics say
making certain patients actually receive treatment and care when
they request it is more important
 Sept
15: Blogs: a mental health guide -
want to hear of stories from a psychiatric ward? Or read a father's
perspective on caring for a son diagnosed with schizophrenia?
Adam James examines mental health blogs.
Sept
15: NHS could be sued over inadequate physical health care for mentally
ill and learning disbled -
Disability Rights Commission warns health service “complacency”
in accepting that people with mental health problems and learning
disabilities “just do” die younger could be breaking
the law
Sept 7: Suicide in Scotland far higher than rest of UK
Aug
14: Advise manic patients to participate in “calming”
activities, professionals told - clinical
guidelines for management of bipolar disorder in NHS primary and
secondary care are published
July
21: Alleged rapes of NHS psychiatric patients “truly shocking”
- outrage as report claims 11 of 19 alleged rapes were by staff.
Feature:
July 21: The art
of staying out - how does one patient peer-support project reduce
time its members spend in hospital by 89 per cent?
June
23: Half of 10,000 new NHS therapists should be clinical psychologists
- further 5,000 could be trained from among the 60,000 NHS nurses,
social workers, occupational therapists and counsellors, states
new London School of Economics report
June
23: Home treatment and crisis resolution reduces inpatient stays
by 30 per cent -
figure reported by South Essex Partnership NHS Trust in government
mental health "priorities" document
June
2: Government campaign against mental health stigma failing, charity
report claims - 'We need stronger anti-discrimination law, not
just attitude change', says Mental Health Foundation
 May
11: Government takes first step to bring in thousands more counsellors
and therapists into health service - Patricia Hewitt (left)
announces launch of two pilot cognitive behaviour therapy centres
in Doncaster and London
May
12: £30m being cut from mental health services, claims report
May 10: Screen
test - A Bush policy to screen the US population, including
preschool children, for undiagnosed mental illness is well underway.
But is screening effective and would it be accepted in the UK? Adam
James
investigates
May
5: More than 10 per cent of mental health trusts are cutting services,
admits Louis Appleby (left) - Appleby responds to Tory criticisms
that in-the-black mental health trusts cut services to assist other
financially-cripped trusts
March
28: Charity reminds GPs they can earn £8,000 by checking the
physical health of people with mental health problems
March
6: Mental health day centres "maintain" stigma -
day services should help users back to work, not just be 'drop-ins',
says government
March
1: Computerised cognitive behaviour therapy recommended for depression,
panic and phobia - therapy can be delivered on a PC, over the
internet or via the telephone
Feb
3: Man with schizophrenia need not have died during restraint by
police, jury decided - Andrew Jordan, 28, died when pinned down
on stomach
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