mental health care

Does ‘depression and anxiety’ reside within both your body and your mind?

November 23, 2010

Image via Wikipedia Does depression and anxiety reside within both your body and your mind? “I am a great believer in the mind – body connection and have for quite some time implemented this way of treating patients as a whole person and not just treating the symptoms that they present with. Emotions that are [...]

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The Mental Health Act can help rehabilitate serious offenders.

September 28, 2010

Image via Wikipedia Gwen Adshead is a consultant forensic psychotherapist at the best known of the 3 high security psychiatric hospitals in England – ‘Broadmoor’- the other two being ‘Ashworth‘ and ‘Rampton‘. The Broadmoor hospital, houses about 260 patients all of whom are men since the female service closed in September 2007, with most of [...]

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“Count me In” Census – Mental Health Community for Black and Ethnic Minorities.

February 24, 2010

“Count me In” Census – Mental Health Community for Black and Ethnic Minorities; Image by leoncillo sabino via Flickr Recent figures released from ‘The Care Quality Commission‘ (CQC) have depicted that 5 years on from the first  ‘Count me in’ census – people from black and minority ethnic communities are still 3 times more likely [...]

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Following Key Principles as a Hospital Manager within the Mental health Act.

October 20, 2009

Following Key Principles as a Hospital Manager within the Mental health Act; According to “The Mental Health Act” 1983 there are statutory requirements for those that work within the framework of the act and they also must have a regard for it’s “Code of Practice”;

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