Category: Mental Health

Suicide Prevention and Self Harm Bulletin


The latest Suicide Prevention and Self Harm Bulletin produced by the Mersey Care Evidently Better team is now available.

In this issue:

  • Instagram Teen Accounts fail to protect children, first-of-its-kind testing of safety tools reveals
  • Samaritans unveils plan to future proof the life-saving charity and answer more calls from those in crisis
  • Rethinking self-harm: from stigma and punishment to compassionate care
  • Teachers’ Response to a Student Presenting With Suicidality: A Call to Action

If you are unable to access any of the included articles please contact academic.library@lscft.nhs.uk.

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Depression & Anxiety Bulletin

The current bulletin for Depression & Anxiety, produced by Merseycare NHS Foundation Trust, is now available to view and download. 

In this edition:

  • Ketamine, depression and childhood trauma: new evidence from a community study
  • The genetic link behind sleep problems, cognitive dysfunction, and neuroticism in ‘treatment-resistant depression’
  • Mind responds to annual mental health act statistics
  • More research needed into psychedelics as potential treatments for mental disorders, calls RCPsych

For support accessing any of the articles within the bulletin please contact: academic.library@lscft.nhs.uk

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Community Health Bulletin

The latest Community health Bulletin produced by the Evidently Better team at Mersey Care NHS FT is now available.

In this edition:

  • Follow-up care for people discharged from mental health inpatient care
  • Lived experience: informing inclusive health protection
  • Why I’m championing enhanced therapeutic observations and care (ETOC)
  • Experts come together to discuss social media use in children and young people
  • Supporting new community-led approaches to health and wellbeing
  • Junk food advertising ban takes positive step forward but ambitious measures needed to tackle childhood obesity

If you are unable to access any of the included articles please contact academic.library@lscft.nhs.uk.

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Forensic Psychiatry Bulletin

With thanks to our colleagues at Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Foundation trust the latest Forensic Psychiatry bulletin is now available to view and download. Some articles are freely accessible, others require an Open Athens account.

Please get in touch for support with this: academic.library@lscft.nhs.uk.

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Perinatal Mental Health Bulletin

With thanks to our colleagues at Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Foundation trust the latest Perinatal Mental Health bulletin is now available to view and download. Some articles are freely accessible, others require an Open Athens account.

Please get in touch for support with this: academic.library@lscft.nhs.uk.

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Making Every Contact Count

The most recent Make Every Contact count public heath bulletin looking at latest evidence around smoking cessation, alcohol, healthy weight, healthy eating and physical exercise is now available. The bulletin is produced by Lancashire and South Cumbria NHS FT Library staff. If you cannot access any of the articles included in the bulletin please contact academic.library@lscft.nhs.uk.

Smoking Cessation

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Alcohol

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Healthy Weight

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Healthy Eating

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Physical Activity

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Suicide Prevention and Self Harm Bulletin

The latest Suicide Prevention and Self Harm Bulletin produced by the Mersey Care Evidently Better team is now available.

In this issue:

  • Machine learning algorithms and their predictive accuracy for suicide and self-harm: Systematic review and meta-analysis
  • Incidence of suicide within two years of a first diagnosis of depression, anxiety, or mixed anxiety and depression: an exploratory cohort study in primary care using the Clinical Practice Research Datalink
  • Developing theory-informed implementation strategies to embed a suicide safety planning intervention app into a psychiatric emergency department: co-design study using the Behaviour Change Wheel
  • Umbrella review of psychosocial and ward-based interventions to reduce self-harm and suicide risks in in-patient mental health settings

If you are unable to access any of the included articles please contact academic.library@lscft.nhs.uk.

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Learning from Lived Experience: My Story Playlist

At Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust, we know that the most powerful lessons often come directly from people with lived experience.

The My Story playlist brings together personal accounts of recovery, resilience and the challenges of living with mental ill health. These stories are not only deeply moving, they also help shape the way we deliver care and design services.

Watch Jane’s story here: Jane’s story on YouTube
Explore the full playlist: My Story on YouTube

Eating Disorder Bulletin

The latest Eating Disorder Bulletin is now available to view or download. Some articles are freely accessible, others require an Open Athens account. Please get in touch for support with this: academic.library@lscft.nhs.uk.

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Depression & Anxiety Bulletin

Depression & Anxiety The current bulletin for Depression & Anxiety, produced by Merseycare NHS Foundation Trust, is now available to view and download. 

In this edition:

  • A different lens on diagnosis: value of the CFI in asylum seekers’ psychiatric diagnostic assessment
  • Music therapy for patients with depression: systematic review and meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials
  • The meaning of ‘acceptance’ of a psychiatric diagnosis: qualitative study of illness narratives with review of the literature
  • Association between somatic symptoms and depression and anxiety in adolescents: a cross-sectional school-based study

For support accessing any of the articles within the bulletin please contact: academic.library@lscft.nhs.uk

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