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The Mental Health & Social Care Current Awareness Bulletin is produced at
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Department of Health

The 2010 Spending Review Settlement (Social Care)

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National News

Charity offers UK drug addicts £200 to be sterilised

Drug addicts across the UK are being offered money to be sterilised by an American charity

Warning over parent alcohol abuse 'child effect'

Millions of children are at risk of neglect because of a parent's drinking, and yet the problem is
being ignored, say charities

SLaM's Self-Harm Service Uses Animation To Aid Recovery

Residents at Dower House, South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust's (SLaM) adult
Self-harm service, have developed an animated short film

NICE New guidance to improve quality of life for children and young people in care
Early and improved access to mental health services should be made available as standard
practice for children and young people in care, a group vulnerable to developing mental health
problems, according to new guidance from NICE and the Social Care Institute for Excellence

Expansion in talking therapies announced

Chancellor George Osborne today confirmed the government would expand access to talking
therapies and invest in services to divert mentally ill offenders away from the justice system and
into treatment

Osborne finds £2bn to help social care weather council cuts

Adult social care will receive an extra £2bn a year by 2014-15 to help the sector withstand
massive cuts to council funding

Chancellor Sets Off Devastating Chain Reaction: A National Autistic Society Response
To The Comprehensive Spending Review
The National Autistic Society has warned of the fall out the Comprehensive Spending Review
will cause for the thousands of families affected by autism who already fight huge battles to get
the support they so desperately need

Royal College Of Psychiatrists Responds To Government Spending Review

Responding to the Government's Spending Review, Professor Dinesh Bhugra, President of the

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4,200 New Health Visitor Positions Intended to Improve Social Problems

the Government is announcing a national recruitment to create 4,200 new health visitors. This
will mean an increase of almost 50% in the number of health visitors working closely with
families in the community

12th NATIONAL STRESS AWARENESS DAY 2010: 3rd November

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International News

Innovative Partnership Provides Important Funding For Mental Disorders And Palliative
Care Research
Six research projects on co-existing heath problems associated with mental illness and one
project on palliative care among First Nations received over $9 million in funding

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Harm Reduction in Community Mental Health Settings

Harm reduction is a conceptual framework and set of practices that focus on the minimization of
the physical, social, and legal harms substance users do to themselves and to society as a
whole

Community-Based Mental Health Services: Is Coercion Necessary?

In community mental health, limitation of service recipient choice and freedom takes place
through mechanisms ranging from subtle to blatant

Promoting Mental Health Could Reduce The Incidence And Prevalence Of Mental Illness
In a new study, researchers found that a change in the level of positive mental health can be a
predictor of future risk of mental illness

Trafficked And Sexually Exploited Girls And Women Experience Traumatic Damage To
Their Mental Health And Well-being
Researchers explored the association between traumatic events and mental health among girls
and women trafficked for sexual exploitation

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 Addictions
Substance abuse, alcoholism,

DocGuide TopAbstracts in Addictions

Why Cocaine Is So Addictive

Mount Sinai researchers have discovered how cocaine corrupts the brain and becomes
addictive

Why Are Men More Susceptible to Alcoholism? It May Be in Their Dopamine

Alcohol is one of the most commonly abused substances, and men are up to twice as likely to
develop alcoholism as women

Heavy Alcohol Use Suggests a Change in Normal Cognitive Development in Adolescents

Many teenagers view alcohol (as well as other drugs) as a gateway to adulthood, but are often
blissfully unaware of the damage that it can cause to their bodies

Attention Processing and Perception May Be Involved in Fetal Alcohol-Related Learning

Difficulties
It has been known for many years that drinking alcohol while pregnant can cause serious and
irreversible damage to the fetus

Genes 'affect alcohol tolerance'

Tipsy' alcohol gene 'could help curb alcoholism'”, reads a BBC News headline

Anxiety Disorders

Respiratory and Cognitive Mediators of Treatment Change in Panic Disorder: Evidence

for Intervention Specificity
There are numerous theories of panic disorder, each proposing a unique pathway of change
leading to treatment success.

Computer-Assisted Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Child Anxiety: Results of a

Randomized Clinical Trial
study examined the feasibility, acceptability, and effects of Camp Cope-A-Lot, a computer-
assisted cognitive behavioral therapy for anxiety in youth

Dementia
Alzheimer’s

DocGuide TopAbstracts in Alzheimer’s

Vitamin B12 link to Alzheimer's backed by study

Evidence is mounting that levels of vitamin B12 may be connected to the risk of developing

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Alzheimer's Disease: Tackling Cognitive Deficits 1 'STEP' At A Time

Lowering levels of a key protein involved in regulating learning and memory - STtriatal-Enriched
tyrosine Phosphatase (STEP) - reversed cognitive deficits in mice with Alzheimer's disease

Hope For New Class Of Alzheimer's Disease Drugs

Finding a drug that can cross the blood-brain barrier is the bane of drug development for
Alzheimer's disease and other neurological disorders of the brain

Depression
Bipolar disorders

Positive emotional processing biases in adolescent BD phenotype

Young people with the common adolescent bipolar disorder phenotype show positive emotional
processing biases, despite increased levels of neuroticism, low mood, and anxiety

Fish Oil Pills Don't Affect Postpartum Depression: Study

Also no link to improvements in children's development, Australian study found

Stressful life events delay recovery from mania

Stressful life events are associated with delays in functional recovery among bipolar disorder
patients who have been treated for an episode of mania

DocGuide TopAbstracts in Depression

Gene linked to depression 'fixed' in mice

Gene therapy in mice appears to be able to "correct" a gene defect strongly linked to
depression in people

New Theory Links Depression To Chronic Brain Inflammation

Chronic depression is an adaptive, reparative neurobiological process gone wrong

Altered fronto-temporal connectivity in pediatric bipolar disorder

Children with bipolar disorder have altered task-independent functional connectivity in fronto-
temporal brain regions associated with working memory and learning

Brain imaging distinguishes pediatric bipolar disorder from ADHD

Results from a US study suggest that functional magnetic resonance imaging of working
memory circuits in the brain may help distinguish children with bipolar disorder from those with
attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder

Dual Diagnosis

Alcohol Use Disorders and Depression: Protective Factors in the Development of Unique
versus Comorbid Outcomes
This study examines protective factors for young adult alcohol use disorders, depression, and

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Dopamine Model Could Play Role In Treating Schizophrenia And Drug Addiction
Researchers have succeeded in creating a model of the way the brain releases dopamine, an
important chemical involved in transmitting signals between nerve cells

Eating Disorders

People With Anorexia May Risk Serious Eye Damage

It's unclear whether macular damage will progress to blindness, researchers say

Heterogeneity Moderates Treatment Response Among Patients With Binge Eating

Disorder
The purpose of the study was to explore heterogeneity and differential treatment outcome
among a sample of patients with binge eating disorder

Learning Disabilities

Attention Processing and Perception May Be Involved in Fetal Alcohol-Related Learning

Difficulties
It has been known for many years that drinking alcohol while pregnant can cause serious and
irreversible damage to the fetus

Using a parent survey to advance knowledge about the nature and consequences of
fragile x syndrome
Understanding the nature and consequences of intellectual and developmental disabilities is
challenging, especially when the condition is rare, affected individuals are geographically
dispersed, and/or resource constraints limit large-scale studies involving direct assessment

Diagnosing personality disorder in people with learning disabilities

Service users are susceptible to developing personality disorders, but for them the diagnosis
can be particularly difficult

Obsessive Compulsive
Disorders

New Research Helps Clinicians Predict Treatment Outcomes For Children With OCD
New research from the Bradley Hasbro Children's Research Center may help clinicians better
predict how a child with obsessive compulsive disorder will respond to some of the most
commonly used treatment approaches

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 Attachment states of mind in adolescents with Obsessive–Compulsive Disorder and/or
depressive disorders: a controlled study
Little is known about the contribution of attachment insecurity to Obsessive–Compulsive
Disorder, though speculations have been extensive

Can Strep Throat Lead to OCD?

A provocative new theory from researchers at Tel Aviv University suggests untreated strep
throat can affect the brain compromising motor and mental functioning

Occupational Therapy

Description of dementia caregiver uplifts and implications for occupational therapy

Most occupational therapy interventions for caregivers are designed to reduce negative
consequences of caregiving by building skills to manage problem behaviors and dependence

Outcome analysis of occupational therapy programme for persons with early psychosis
This study examined the vocational outcomes of young persons with early psychosis after their
participation in an occupational therapy program, and identified clinical or process variables that
are linked to the vocational outcomes

Post Traumatic
Stress Disorder

Posttraumatic Stress Symptoms Among National Guard Soldiers Deployed to Iraq:

Associations With Parenting Behaviors and Couple Adjustment
Tis article reports findings from a 1-year longitudinal study examining the impact of change in
posttraumatic stress disorder symptoms following combat deployment on National Guard
soldiers' perceived parenting and couple adjustment 1 year following return from Iraq

Evaluation of evidence for the psychotic subtyping of post-traumatic stress disorder

Psychotic symptoms may occur in 15–64% of individuals with post-traumatic stress disorder,
suggesting that the syndrome could be subtyped in a similar fashion to mood disorders

Psychology

Violent images 'boost teenage aggression'

Repeated viewing of violent scenes in films, television or video games could make teenagers
behave more aggressively, US research suggests

Young Children Are Especially Trusting Of Things They're Told

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trusting of things people say to them

Schizophrenia

DocGuide TopAbstracts in Schizophrenia

Comorbid mood disorder increases suicide risk in schizophrenia patients

The presence of a previous or co-existing mood disorder is associated with a significantly
increased risk for suicide in patients with schizophrenia

EEG power and negative symptoms predict transition to psychosis

Results from a Swiss study suggest that negative symptom levels combined with data on
electroencephalogram power in delta, theta, and beta bands predict transition to psychosis in
at-risk individuals

Schizophrenia with obsessive compulsive symptoms ‘a distinct subtype’

Results from a Japanese study suggest that schizophrenia with obsessive-compulsive
symptoms (OCS) may represent a subtype of the disorder that is associated with early onset
and increased severity of psychotic symptoms

Schizophrenia patients often experience sleep initiation problems

Patients with schizophrenia report taking significantly longer to fall asleep at night than mentally
healthy individuals

Social Work

Preliminary Support for Multidimensional Treatment Foster Care in Reducing Substance

Use in Delinquent Boys
Although effective outpatient treatments have been identified for the well-documented negative
outcomes associated with delinquency and substance use, effective treatments for youths in
out-of-home care are rare

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Books, Conferences,
Websites & Journal Tocs

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Books and reports hot of the press
Click the title to connect to the website entry

Professionalism in Mental Healthcare: Experts, Expertise and Expectations

Social Class and Classism in The Helping Professions: Research, Theory, and Practice

The Trauma Treatment Handbook: Protocols Across the Spectrum

Psychological Approaches to Chronic Disease Management

Understanding Behavior Disorders: A Contemporary Behavioral Perspective

Early Detection and Treatment of Substance Abuse Within Integrated Primary Care

Gambling: Behavior Theory, Research, and Application

Quality of Life Impairment in Schizophrenia, Mood and Anxiety Disorders

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CONFERENCES
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CONFERENCES

WEBSITES
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