All Mental health articles – Page 4
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Personal view
Early assessment of dementia is essential
SIGN dementia guideline recommends that GPs manage the condition more proactively, says Dr Honor Merriman
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Implementing guidelines
SIGN notes for discussion with patients and carers
26. Management of patients with dementia
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Implementing guidelines
Early recognition and treatment of dementia will benefit patients
Dr Peter Connelly explains how the updated SIGN guideline will help GPs to diagnose dementia and keep patients and carers informed about the disease
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Implementing guidelines
NICE guideline will increase recognition of depression in children
The new guideline from NICE highlights the need to train GPs to recognise depression in children and young people, says Dr John Hague
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Implementing guidelines
NICE recommends a stepped care approach to OCD
Dr John Hague discusses how the NICE guideline will help GPs to recognise and treat obsessive-compulsive disorder and body dysmorphic disorder
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Good practice initiative
Addressing emotional disorders in children: a school-based project
Joint runner up in the Guidelines in Practice Award 2005 was an innovative project to reduce childhood emotional disorders. Team leader Professor Paul Stallard describes the initiative
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Implementing guidelines
NICE guideline will help GPs to identify patients with PTSD
Recent guidance should ensure that sufferers of post-traumatic stress disorder receive the therapy they need, as Dr Peter Saul explains
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Implementing guidelines
SIGN clarifies the use of mood stabilisers in bipolar disorder
Evidence-based guidance should improve the shared care management of bipolar affective disorder in the community, says Professor Klaus Ebmeier
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Implementing guidelines
SIGN notes for discussion with patients and carers
23. Bipolar affective disorder
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Implementing guidelines
NICE recommends a stepped care approach to managing depression
Effective recognition in primary care is the first stage in a structured approach to depression management, as Stephen Pilling (left) and Dr Paul Harvey explain
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Implementing guidelines
NICE anxiety guideline highlights importance of psychological therapy
Cognitive behavioural therapy has a pivotal role in the management of anxiety. Primary care should consider ways to deliver this intervention, says Dr Alan Cohen
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GMS contract
Creating an enhanced service will improve care in depression
GPs are well placed to manage depression and could provide a high standard of care by setting up an enhanced service under the new contract, says Dr Jill Murie
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Implementing guidelines
Guideline points the way to better care for those who self-harm
New guidance from NICE is a step in the right direction for GPs who feel ill-equipped to deal with these vulnerable patients, says Dr Jez Thompson
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Good practice initiative
Primary care mental health service ensures fast access for patients
Dr Liz Howells explains how an innovative scheme to ensure early intervention is benefiting patients with common mental health problems in the Swindon area
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Personal view
Can GPs provide cognitive behavioural therapy?
The new contract’s aspirations for enhanced care for depressed patients are laudable but underfunded, says Dr Phillip Bland
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GMS contract
Contract will address needs of patients with severe mental illness
Meeting the mental health indicators will be a challenge for GPs but should bring great benefit to a vulnerable group of patients, says Dr Jill Murie
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Implementing guidelines
SIGN patient information: 7. Attention deficit and hyperkinetic disorders in children and young peop
7. Attention deficit and hyperkinetic disorders in children and young people
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Personal view
Close liaison with secondary care is essential if the NICE guideline on schizophrenia is to benefit
Close liaison with secondary care is essential if the NICE guideline on schizophrenia is to benefit patients
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Implementing guidelines
SIGN notes for discussion with patients: 2. Postnatal Depression
2. Postnatal Depression