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This conference will showcase recent research evidence on work with fathers. It is ideally suited to practitioners who are interested in evidence-informed practice. Speakers include Professors Brid Featherstone, Harry Ferguson and Jonathan Scourfield. A range of topics will be covered:
Young offenders as fathers
Working with separated fathers
Engaging fathers in the child protection process
Recruiting fathers to parenting programmes
The effectiveness of parenting interventions
Tuesday 31st March 2015, 10.00am-4.00pm, St James, Manchester, M1 6FQ
Shared decision-making through joint crisis plans show service users, given the opportunity to be involved in their care, would make specific and reasonable requests regarding treatments currently available in standard care in England. Furthermore, this paper gathered a large number of crisis plans from four geographical locations in England, suggesting that the findings are generalisable.
Click here to read full article
Source: Raphael Underwood in the Mental Elf 12 Dec 2014
We’ve
introduced a selection of comic books and graphic novels themed around mental
health – you can find them on the new books shelf in the library. They’re part
of our Evening Library Assistant’s dissertation project and he’s looking for
volunteers to interview about whether or not graphic novels have a place in
training. Email Anthony.Farthing.1@city.ac.uk if you’re interested in taking part.
To see the full
collection, just search ‘comics’ in the catalogue or see below for a listing:
Are You My Mother? by Alison
Bechdel
An
autobiographical account of psychotherapy and attempts to reconcile the
mother-daughter relationship through the work of D W Winnicott.
The library will be running lunchtime registration sessions for the first 3 weeks of term for students unable to attend enrolment day. These sessions will take place in the library between 12.30-2.00pm Mon-Fri.
In the meantime, have a look at the new members' page on our website.
The mental health risks to young homeless people are well established, with particularly high rates of conduct disorder, PTSD, major depression and substance misuse reported. Poor physical health and high rates of personal injury are also common. It goes without saying that to be young and homeless is usually caused and compounded by circumstances which fundamentally affect how and whether individuals are willing and able to access primary care and other appropriate health services.
We are closed for longer this summer as we are having a
lovely new refurbishment! The last big library redevelopment was in
2000 and things have moved on enormously since then, so much so that the
existing library accommodation is no longer fit for purpose. We have
taken note of comments made in feedback from user surveys and we hope
these changes will enhance your experience of using the library.
To find out more about using library resources during closure, have a look at this presentation:
Recent study published in the Journal of Interpersonal Violence recommends dyslexic children be screened for physical abuse
Read more here
Source: Metro Canada July 2014
Immersive reality can help children with autism spectrum disorder overcome their fears and phobias, new research has shown.
In a study published today in PLOS ONE,
experts at Newcastle University describe how, following treatment in an
immersive virtual reality room, eight out of nine children were able to
tackle the situation they feared. Four children were found to have
completely overcome their phobias. The effect of the treatment was still
in place one year later. A video shows the treatment for phobia in action.
The library has developed these Guides in order to help our users to keep up-to-date in their subject areas. The Guides are a current snapshot
of information in specific subject areas and are not intended to be a
definitive coverage of these subject areas.
We have included videos,
podcasts, newsreels, scholarly articles from PsycINFO and Google Scholar
and current articles from journals. New information is being fed onto
the pages hourly, daily or weekly. Why not have a look at your
particular subject area and let us know what you think.
Here are below the subjects covered. Click on your favourite subject!
As part of their Domestic Violence Law Reform
Campaign, Women's Aid has released a survey of 182 frontline professionals
which reveals that 97% thought that psychological abuse and coercive control
should be recognised in law.
SOURCE: Women's Aid 6/6/14 Read Press Release here
Children with a parent in prison are some of the most overlooked and isolated in the UK and have disrupted childhoods that can ruin their life chances.
It is estimated that there are almost three times as many children with a parent in prison in England and Wales as there are in care – an estimated 200,000 children.
These children often face isolation, stigma, poverty and family breakdown – disruption which can contribute to a 65% likelihood of offending themselves.
Depending on the course you're in, there is a chance that you may have to produce a literature review. It can be for your PhD, a Master's thesis or at the request of your tutor.
But what is a literature review? How do you perform a literature search? How do you choose which references to mention? And what are the rules to cite them?
The following presentation should answer many of those questions and more.
And remember: when in doubt, just ask a librarian!
Richard Maguire from Autism Live Training will share his own personal account of growing up with autism and will talk about how he now helps other sufferers to become understood. Alongside his own insights, Richard gives hints, tips and strategies on how to deal with autism which can be useful for families.
Endnote is referencing software which is available online. You can export your references direct from EBSCO into Endnote and users of later versions of Word can cite as they write into their chosen referencing style.
If you do not already have an Endnote account, sign up now for Endnoteweb basic.
Accounts are free to all, and you can now register online from any location. Click here to create your account.
• New accounts include up to 2GB storage for documents (pdfs/text/multimedia)
For help using Endnote have a look at our bitesize Endnote screencasts or the more detailed Endnote presentation under the Need Help? tab on our website or click here
MQ is making over £1million available to
support three funding opportunities through their new Psy-IMPACT Programme.
The three funding streams are focused on
the goal to stimulate innovation and advances in the field of psychological
treatments.
Applicants are challenged to demonstrate how their project will help foster
a better understanding of how psychological treatments work, with whom and why
they work, and how they can be improved upon to benefit to people with mental
health problems.
If a treatment is powerful enough to have a
good effect, then it’s powerful enough to have a bad effect. This is well
recognised when it comes to medication, with strict regulations in place to
ensure adverse outcomes are monitored and measured. By contrast, psychotherapy has never been as readily associated with the
potential to cause harm.
There is growing national
concern about birth mothers who appear and re-appear before the family court,
losing successive children to public care and adoption. Establishing a national co-ordinated
prevention agenda will bring clear benefits for birth mothers, their children
and informal networks, as well as reducing demand on services.
Tavistock & Portman's library subscribes to many online resources like journals, bibliographic databases, etc. To allow you to access them as simply as possible, we use a "signle sign-in" system: Shibboleth.
Using only the login and password of your Shibboleth account, you can access most of the online resources we propose.
Still, the login process of some resources might be convoluted. If you need help logging in, you can check out this page.
And make sure you read the following graphic: it contains all the basic information you need to know concerning your Shibboleth account!
Sophie Rubin returns to Vienna from exile in the US to find Alexander Scherbatov , a White Russian aristocrat.
They are the last surviving patients of
Freud. Did Freud help them, or hurt them?
The film will be followed by a Question and Answer session with director Hugh Brody, psychoanalyst Michael Brearley and Actor Juliet Stevenson.
On average, one child is taken into care every 20
minutes in Britain. This series has unparalleled access to the entire adoption
process, from social workers to birth parents and adopters.
How do people look at art? To make sure nothing gets forgotten Tate has teamed up with Touretteshero
to give young people aged 5–16 the chance to work with visual artists.
The participants will explore the national collection of British art,
subjectively mapping their own experiences of the galleries and the art
in order to transform the spaces to meet their individual needs.
The prevalence of disordered eating has been estimated to be around 6%
and research has shown that individuals with disordered eating are more likely
to have other psychiatric disorders, such as low mood or anxiety (McBride et al,
2013). However research has focused mainly on White European, or North American
ethnicity, with less focus on Hispanic and Asian Groups, and has largely ignored
men. SOURCE: Maxine Howard in The Mental Elf 21/3/14
Maternal depression is a serious mental health
condition and does not only affect the mental health of the mother, but also the
physical health of her children.
Depression is a common problem in adolescence, with statistics showing that
around 20% of young people will go through at least one clinically depressive
episode by the age of 18 years. However, "classroom-based CBT programmes aiming to prevent depression delivered in schools
may not be clinically effective and indeed may increase reporting of symptoms" according to Iona Cristea in the Mental Elf Read more here
From deprived housing estates to the
world of corporate business, the gang mentality operates at all levels
of society, when a group perceives itself as pitted against the rest of
the world. How we can we understand and modify the destructive power that is evident in gangs into something more benign? For more details and booking click here
Domestic violence and abuse is a complex issue that needs
sensitive handling by a range of health and social care professionals.
The cost, in both human and economic terms, is so significant that even
marginally effective interventions are cost effective.
Clinicians and mental health researchers have long recognised that there is a
link between traumatic experiences in childhood and symptoms of psychosis or
non-clinical psychotic experiences presenting in adolescence or adulthood. Read more
David Bell will discuss with Jeremy Corbyn the
MP’s life-long commitment to campaigning and the defence of human rights, and
reflect on how to sustain body and soul whilst keeping one’s ideals intact.
Jeremy Corbyn has
been MP for Islington North for 30 years and is very active both in his
constituency and in parliament. David Bell is
a psychoanalyst and former President of the British Psychoanalytic Society, Tickets
£10 full price, £8 cons– Click here for more information and to book tickets
