Month: January 2019

Schizophrenia Bulletin – January 2019

The January edition of Schizophrenia Bulletin has been published.  This issue includes articles on metacognition research in psychosis, a latent class analysis on whether metacognitive deficits predict impaired insight in schizophrenia across symptom profiles, and negative symptoms in early-onset psychosis and their association with antipsychotic treatment failure.
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Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica – January 2019

The January issue of Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica has been published.  This issue includes articles on one‐year follow‐up on liraglutide treatment for prediabetes and overweight/obesity in clozapine‐ or olanzapine‐treated patients, an association between YKL‐40 and type 2 diabetes in psychotic disorders, and prevalence of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder symptoms in patients with schizophrenia.
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British Journal of Community Nursing – January 2019

The January edition of British Journal of Community Nursing has been published.  This edition includes articles on falls in nursing homes, district nursing caring for individuals with complex needs, and the future of Specialist Practice Qualifications in district nursing for band 6 leadership roles.
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The Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry – January 2019

The January edition of Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry has been published.  This issue includes articles on the impact of maternal depression on child psychopathology across the first decade of life and a population‐based birth cohort study on what distinguishes adolescents with suicidal thoughts from those who have attempted suicide.
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The British Journal of Psychiatry – January 2019

The January edition of British Journal of Psychiatry is now available.  This issue includes articles on treatment-resistant depression and peripheral C-reactive protein, treatment-resistant and multi-therapy-resistant criteria for bipolar depression, and repeated oral ketamine for out-patient treatment of resistant depression.
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Mental Capacity (Amendment) Bill: (Briefing Paper Number CBP8466)

House of Commons Library, December 2018
House of Commons Library briefing that provides an overview of the Mental Capacity (Amendment) Bill, and the debates and amendments made during the Bills Lords stages, ahead of its Second Reading in the Commons on 18 December 2018. The intention of the Bill is to reform the process ( Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards (DoLS))for authorising arrangements which enable people who lack capacity to consent to be deprived of their liberty (for the purpose of providing them with care or treatment).
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Equality analysis: liberty protection safeguards – Mental Capacity (Amendment) Bill

Department of Health Social Care, December 2018
Examines the potential impact on protected groups of the Mental Capacity (Amendment) Bill, which seeks to replace current legislation with Liberty Protection Safeguards. It looks at the positive, neutral and negative effects that this legislation could have on people with protected characteristics and other groups, such as carers.
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