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Mental Health Practice - Volume 13, Issue 7

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Mental Health Practice

Issue 7 - Volume 13 - 01 April 2010

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Collaborative Model for End-stage Dementia Care

Authors: Stephanie Lindsay | Miriam Coyle | Barbara Dunster | Victoria Traynor
Date: April 2010
Journal: Mental Health Practice
Issue: Volume 13, Number 7
Keywords: Carers, community care, dying at home, end-stage dementia, remote community.

Healthcare practitioners working with people with dementia are often asked by the carer: ‘When will my partner need to go to a nursing home?’ This article presents an overview of how a local dementia ...
How expert nurses communicate with acutely psychotic patients

Authors: Len Bowers | Geoff Brennan | Gary Winship | Christina Theodoridou
Date: April 2010
Journal: Mental Health Practice
Issue: Volume 13, Number 7
Keywords: Challenging behaviour, psychosis, nurse patient relationship, communications skills

People with acute mental health problems display a range of challenging behaviours that can be difficult to deal with, especially for junior staff. This article contains extracts from a recently publi...
Schizophrenia: what’s in a name?

Author: Michiel Louter
Date: April 2010
Journal: Mental Health Practice
Issue: Volume 13, Number 7
Keywords: Schizophrenia, dementia praecox

Originally termed dementia praecox, schizophrenia was also variously called hebephrenia, catatonia, délire chronique and démence précoce. It was a difficult disorder to classify and it was not until t...
Improving quality of life for adolescents with psychosis

Authors: Andrew Hunter | Annmarie Grealish | Maura Dowling
Date: April 2010
Journal: Mental Health Practice
Issue: Volume 13, Number 7
Keywords: Adolescence, early intervention, empowerment, psychosis, young people

Psychosis is a symptom of serious mental illness that is usually associated with adult life, but a significant group of people develop it in adolescence. Psychosis in adolescence is more complicated t...

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