Treating antenatal depression could prevent off-spring adult depression according to latest research - Source Mental Elf 20/12/13

Emerging evidence is questioning the near-exclusive focus on PND and offspring depression; antenatal depression (AND) has been associated with independent risks for child development and a key question asks whether the mechanisms for the transmission of risk from mother to fetus differ from those related to maternal depression during the child’s life.

Maggie Fagan - Guardian Obituary 11 December

http://www.theguardian.com/society/2013/dec/11/maggie-fagan-obituary

Children and Young People's Mental Health Policy - Summary of Policy Developments in 2013 Source: Young Minds

Policy communications officer Jenifer Phillips rounds up the policy developments in children and young people's mental health during 2013.

Women prisoners at higher risk of self-harm according to latest research

" While self-harm is a substantial problem across the board, it is a particularly serious issue for women in prison who make up only 5% of the prison population but account for half of all self-harm incidents" - Lead researcher Dr Seena Fazel Source: The Mental Elf

Mental illness and its treatment today', an analysis by Dr David Bell

Read full article in E-prints online by clicking here

Effective Approaches to Tackle Gang and Youth Violence 15th January 2014 - Arlington Conference Centre, Camden, London NW1

This policy and information led briefing will offer delegates an in-depth look at the policy surrounding the Ending Gang and Youth Violence strategy. The day will provide a platform for informed debate and discussion on how to build to effective tackle youth and gang violence, with opportunity to discuss best practice case studies and the importance of tackling underlying problems leading to violence. Click for more details.

Reminder to all library users - Library Vacation Opening Hours apply from Monday 9 December 2013 until Friday 10 January 2014

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Clinicians, tutors and students - Don't forget to check out TED (Technology, Entertainment and Design) a source of high quality talks, blogs and performances

These videos are freely available and can be freely shared and reposted for non-commercial purposes. 

Click here for current presentations about psychotherapy

For full details of re-use and sharing check the Creative Commons BY-NC-ND license

New Cochrane review finds weak evidence that drug combinations are more effective than monotherapy in psychotic depression

As psychotic depression is usually associated with worse treatment outcome, its successful management needs stringent guidelines. In an attempt to provide these, an updated Cochrane review has looked at pharmacotherapy in psychotic depression (Wijkstra et al., 2013) more closely. Source: The Mental Elf 3 Dec13

Gender, Ethnicity & Mental Health Conference, 13th December 2013, London run by EHI

This one day conference will critically examine and debate the role of Gender and Ethnicity and its impact on Mental Health, so we can become more inclusive of these factors in practice and service delivery.

Click here for details

Should all schools have their own psychotherapist? SOURCE: Guardian 19 November 2013

Psychotherapy improves pupils' educational achievement as well as providing mental health support

Separation & Reunion Conference 2013 Attachment Issues: Children’s Rights Friday 29th November 2013, 9am – 4.30pm London

Click here for more information and booking

BRITAIN’S SECRET DRINKERS - ITV explores claims that Britain's middle classes are drinking too much.

ITV - 7.30pm Thursday 21 November

Young people's mental health leaves GP's feeling 'uncertain and anxious' according to research by University of Sunderland

Many GPs also feel uncomfortable when discussing issues with younger patients and struggle to communicate with them despite working with them on a frequent basis. Read more here

THE POWER OF THE UNCONSCIOUS - BBC RADIO4: Wednesday 20th November, 9pm

The crucial role of our unconscious and how scientists are now harnessing its powers.
More details from BBC website

Cochrane review finds no clear evidence for psychosocial interventions to help people with both severe mental illness and substance misuse

Substance use is common in people with mental health problems, and this can have important negative consequences for health and social function. Source: Mental Elf 19 Nov 2013

Read more here

City & Hackney service wins top award for ‘Minding the gap’ Friday, November 15, 2013

Tavistock and Portman specialist primary care servicehttp://www.tavistockandportman.nhs.uk/node/2392 in City and Hackney was named Psychiatric Team of the Year, non-age specific, at the Royal College of Psychiatrists (RCPsych) 2013 awards ceremony last night.

Counselling reduces depression in cases of intimate partner violence

Family doctors should be trained to ask about safety of women and children and provide counselling…as counselling reduced depressive symptoms according to results from a recent study. Source: Mental Elf 15/11/13

Schizophrenia Awareness Week 11-17 November

Stand up for Schizophrenia - click here for details of how to participate

Tackling Overload - tips for psychotherapists

Five Ways Therapists Can Get An Instant Grip On Overload - Source Psychcentral

Government spending cuts have severe impact on early intervention services for vulnerable children. Source: Action for Children

A new survey shows children are trying to cope with problems out of their control, such as parents losing their jobs, illness, family breakdown and domestic abuse. Frontline workers report increased numbers of young people self-harming or self-poisoning.

Mental health counselling on NHS will be a right, says Burnham | UK news | theguardian.com

A Labour government will enshrine the right to counselling for mental health problems in the NHS constitution, just as people have a right to drugs and treatment for mental illness, Andy Burnham will promise today.
Burnham, the shadow health secretary, will say at a conference on mental health and wellbeing in Shrewsbury, that mental health is the biggest unaddressed health challenge of the age, costing business £71m a day, or £26bn a year.

Access top-read articles from Clinical Psychological Science—FREE for a limited time!

Access top-read articles from Clinical Psychological Science—FREE for a limited time!

	View sample issue Clinical Psychological Science Editor: Alan E. Kazdin Yale University

The Association for Psychological Science’s newest journal, Clinical Psychological Science, emerges from the confluence of recent developments that has made clinical science increasingly central to all areas of psychological science: translational research; transdiagnostic approaches; empirically supported assessment, diagnosis, and treatment; molecular and behavioral genetics and proteomics; neuroimaging; and new treatments focusing on brain and behavior change. The journal provides readers with the best, most innovative research in clinical psychological science, giving researchers of all stripes a home for their work and a place in which to communicate with a broad audience of both clinical and other scientists.

Access, share, and enjoy these top-read Clinical Psychological Science articles today—free through November 30, 2013!
Novel Models for Delivering Mental Health Services and Reducing the Burdens of Mental Illness by Alan E. Kazdin and Sarah M. Rabbitt

The Emerging Field of Human Social Genomics by George M. Slavich and Steven W. Cole

Wandering Minds and Aging Cells by Elissa S. Epel, Eli Puterman, Jue Lin, Elizabeth Blackburn, Alanie Lazaro, and Wendy Berry Mendes

War Zone Stress Interacts With the 5-HTTLPR Polymorphism to Predict the Development of Sustained Attention for Negative Emotion Stimuli in Soldiers Returning From Iraq by Seth G. Disner, Christopher G. Beevers, Han-Joo Lee, Robert E. Ferrell, Ahmad R. Hariri, and Michael J. Telch

Possible Mechanisms Explaining the Association Between Physical Activity and Mental Health: Findings From the 2001 Dutch Health Behaviour in School-Aged Children Survey by Karin Monshouwer, Margreet ten Have, Mireille van Poppel, Han Kemper, and Wilma Vollebergh

Adversity in Early and Midadolescence Is Associated With Elevated Startle Responses to Safety Cues in Late Adolescence by Kate Wolitzky-Taylor, Suzanne Vrshek-Schallhorn, Allison M. Waters, Susan Mineka, Richard E. Zinbarg, Edward M. Ornitz, Bruce Naliboff, and Michelle G. Craske

Unimpaired Attentional Disengagement and Social Orienting in Children With Autism by Jason Fischer, Kami Koldewyn, Yuhong V. Jiang, and Nancy Kanwisher

Visual Context Processing in Schizophrenia by Eunice Yang, Duje Tadin, Davis M. Glasser, Sang Wook Hong, Randolph Blake, and Sohee Park

Nonverbal Displays of Shame Predict Relapse and Declining Health in Recovering Alcoholics by Daniel Randles and Jessica L. Tracy

Key Characteristics of Major Depressive Disorder Occurring in Childhood, Adolescence, Emerging Adulthood, and Adulthood by Paul Rohde, Peter M. Lewinsohn, Daniel N. Klein, John R. Seeley, and Jeff M. Gau

Call for Papers The editors of Clinical Psychological Science are interested in individual articles as well as series of articles on novel and emerging topics in clinical psychological science. View the Call for Papers here.

TRUST SCIENTIFIC MEETING Monday 11th November 2013, 11:30 to 12:50,

5th Floor Lecture Theatre

‘From RCT to practice, parallel processes for replication of evidence in the real world’

Presenters: Ann Rowe, Sam Mason & Dr. Dulcie McBride

Chair: David Bell

Replication of the Family Nurse Partnership programme has now exceeded the scale of any other evidence based programme in the UK.  This complex long term home visiting programme has been shown to improve outcomes for children through three randomised control trials in the US and is currently being tested through formative research and a trial in the UK. Replication of the programme across England is led by the FNP National Unit. The National Unit works at system and clinical levels with local sites to ensure that the programme is reproduced in line with the programme model, to create the best possible chance of reproducing the original positive programme results for families. The science of the programme is of many types (RCTs, replication science, neuroscience) and is matched by expertise, artistry and craft in practice and the use of real time data to both assure and improve the quality of replication. This seminar will explore the replication of evidence from the point of view of clinical practice, organisational systems and national leadership.  The concepts of discipline, individualism and authenticity within each of these spheres will be examined to explore how professional and organisational autonomy can coexist with structure and regulation.