Category: Resource Guides

Resource of the Month

Therapist Aid

The Therapist Aid website features essential tools for mental health professionals; therapy worksheets, audio, activities, and more.

Therapist Aid is dedicated to helping mental health professionals improve their craft by providing free evidence-based education and therapy tools. The resources have been created with clients in mind, which means avoiding jargon, and creating tools that are not only useful in theory, but in practice.

Scan the smart code on the poster or visit the website here. For help with this please email the library team: academic.library@lscft.nhs.uk

Please feel free to download our resource of the month poster and share with your team or within your department.

Resource of the Month

KnowledgeShare

KnowledgeShare allows you to create a bespoke service, specifically designed around you and your professional needs/interests. By signing up, you will receive updates directly to your inbox (on a weekly, fortnightly or monthly basis) to keep you up to date with current awareness and research in your identified field of work.

To sign up simply download and complete the registration form and email it to us: academic.library@lscft.nhs.uk

Please feel free to download our resource of the month poster and share with your team or within your department: Knowledgeshare-posterDOWNLOAD

Emotional Support

Sam Tyrer and Change Talks

Sam Tyrer is the Prevention and Engagement Lead here at Lancashire and South Cumbria Foundation Trust and is the founder of a service called Change Talks, which offers mental health education to 11-21 year olds. This service has reached over 55,000 young people since the beginning of 2018 and it continues to go from strength to strength.

Sam is also the co-host of a webinar series called the Mental Health Family Hour, which has recently received national recognition from the Prime Minister. The Points of Light Award was given to Sam and his co-host for their work throughout the lockdown to support people’s mental health through their weekly webinar series.

We will be featuring some of Sam’s work over the coming weeks on the library blog and Twitter page as well as some useful resources Sam recommends for helping us all to provide emotional support, both at work and at home.

Please email us at academic.library@lscft.nhs.uk to share your tips or advice for providing emotional support for your friends, relatives and colleagues.

Libraries Week

4th – 10th October 2021

Libraries Week is an annual showcase and celebration of the best that libraries have to offer.  It explores the innovative and surprising things that libraries are doing.

Read more about the online resources offered by the Gosall Library here.

Please email us with any enquiries: academic.library@lscft.nhs.uk

Library Newsletter

September 2021

The September edition of the Library Newsletter is now available to view here.

Please feel free to download and share with your colleagues and/or department.

If you would like to see any additional features on our newsletter or have any queries regarding information featured in this month’s newsletter, please get in touch by emailing: academic.library@lscft.nhs.uk

OUP medical handbooks

HEE provides OUP medical and nursing handbooks

Newly qualified and junior doctors can tap into two invaluable resources as they begin their transition during August rotation.

Clinicians can get online access to 130 medical handbooks published by Oxford University Press (OUP) as well as Oxford Handbooks in Nursing and the ‘Emergencies In…’ series along with several key textbooks including the Oxford Textbook of Medicine.

Funded by Health Education England’s national NHS Knowledge and Library Services means the resource is free to the NHS in England and can be accessed 24/7 via the HEE/OUP site using your NHS OpenAthens account.

Please email the library team academic.library@lscft.nhs.uk for help with accessing these resources.

BMJ Best Practice

Clinical decision-making support just a tap away

BMJ Best Practice is a clinical decision-making resource provided free by Health Education England to all NHS staff in England and particularly useful for medical students and newly qualified and junior doctors.

Rated as one of the best support tools worldwide, BMJ Best Practice includes step by step guidance on diagnosis, prognosis, treatment and prevention as well as medical calculators, how-to videos and patient information leaflets.  Content includes clinical expertise from over 1,600 international authors and 2,500 peer reviewers which means you have up to date references available at your fingertips, anywhere, any time of day or night.

Watch the animation or find out more at bmj.com/hee where you can register using your OpenAthens log in details. Once registered you can also download the mobile app.  If you need help getting access please email your Trust library team – they’ll be happy to guide you! academic.library@lscft.nhs.uk

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Resource of the Month

The Trip medical database

The Trip Medical Database is a smart, fast tool to find high quality clinical research evidence.

Trip is a clinical search engine designed to allow users to quickly and easily find and use high-quality research evidence to support their practice and/or care:

  • Searched over 125,000,000 times
  • Over 70% of clinical questions answered
  • Millions of articles items indexed & uniquely ranked
  • Twenty years of learning & fine tuning

Access the database here. For help with this please email the library team: academic.library@lscft.nhs.uk

Please feel free to download our resource of the month poster and share with your team or within your department.

Library Newsletter

August 2021

The August edition of the Library Newsletter is now available to view here.

Please feel free to download and share with your colleagues and/or department.

If you would like to see any additional features on our newsletter or have any queries regarding information featured in this month’s newsletter, please get in touch by emailing: academic.library@lscft.nhs.uk