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BJPsych Bull
December 2023
Dual Medical Psychotherapy & Forensic Psychiatry Trainee, Royal College of Psychiatrists, UK.
SAGE Open Med Case Rep
October 2023
Department of Cardiology, Jakaya Kikwete Cardiac Institute, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.
Emotional disarray linked to interventional procedures may potentially aggravate previous psychiatric conditions or even precipitate new psychopathologies. Despite of the well-known deleterious impact of mental health disorders on cardiac outcomes, psychological disturbances are relatively understudied yet of vital importance to the overall health of post-pacing patients. In this case series we present a spectrum of mental illnesses observed in a cohort of patients who underwent permanent pacemaker implantation in Tanzania's national referral cardiac centre.
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November 2023
Centre for Mental Health and Safety, Manchester Academic Health Sciences Centre, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK; Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust, Manchester, UK; and NIHR Greater Manchester Patient Safety Research Collaboration, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK.
In this editorial we, as members of the 2022 NICE Guideline Committee, highlight and discuss what, in our view, are the key guideline recommendations (generated through evidence synthesis and consensus) for mental health professionals when caring for people after self-harm, and we consider some of the implementation challenges.
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December 2023
Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK.
In recent years, the Royal College of Psychiatrists has been engaged in activities to ensure parity of esteem for mental health within the National Health Service, seeking to bring resources and services more in line with those available for physical health conditions. Central to this has been the promotion of psychiatry as a profession that takes a biopsychosocial approach, considering all aspects of the patient's presentation and history in the understanding and treatment of mental disorders. However, there has been a drift away from considering the psychological aspects of the patient's difficulties in recent years.
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November 2022
Department of Psychiatry and Medical Psychotherapy, University Hospital Tulln, Tulln, Austria.
Background: Patients who require psychiatric inpatient treatment early in life are a particularly at-risk population. Factors such as adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) are, however, not well studied in those requiring psychiatric inpatient treatment during both childhood or adolescence and adulthood. Thus, the aim of the current study was to investigate, in young adult inpatients, the risk factors for prior admissions in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, with a focus on ACEs.
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