Nikki Nabavi summarises the recent Public Health England guidance for the public on the mental health and wellbeing aspects of coronavirus #COVID-19.
[read the full story...]PHE guidance on mental health and wellbeing during #COVID19
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Guidance for online therapy during COVID-19
Liesbeth Tip highlights the new OxCADAT guidance for psychotherapists providing online therapy for people with anxiety, panic or trauma.
This blog also contains many ideas and an extensive list of useful research and resources for delivering internet based treatment for people during the COVID-19 pandemic.
[read the full story...]COVID trauma response: pandemics require trauma-informed mental health support
Sarah Steeg reviews the new trauma-informed guidance for healthcare workers, developed by the COVID Trauma Response Working Group from UCL and the Camden and Islington NHS Trust. The guidance aims to provide a coordinated, trauma-informed and evidence-based psychological response to the COVID outbreak.
[read the full story...]Digital technology and youth mental health: recommendations from the Royal College of Psychiatrists
Sarah Hetrick summarises a recent report from the Royal College of Psychiatrists which explores the impact of technology use on the mental health of young people.
[read the full story...]Personality disorder: new position statement from the Royal College of Psychiatrists
Keir Harding summarises the recently published position statement on personality disorder from the Royal College of Psychiatrists.
Readers interested in personality disorder research and services should follow #BIGSPD2020 on Twitter for the British and Irish Group for the Study of Personality Disorder conference on 24-26 March 2020.
[read the full story...]What are the sticking points? NASSS framework for technology adoption in healthcare #MindTech2019
Imogen Bell summarises Trish Greenhalgh’s paper on her recent NASSS framework (Nonadoption, Abandonment, Scale-up, Spread, and Sustainability), which is aimed at improving the success of digital health interventions in healthcare.
Follow #MindTech2019 on Thursday 5th December on Twitter for more on this and other digital mental health related discussions.
[read the full story...]Guideline: Antibiotics for Dental Pain and Swelling
This new guideline from the American Dental Association is about the the appropriate use of systemic antibiotics for the urgent management of symptomatic irreversible pulpitis with or without symptomatic apical pulpitis, pulp necrosis and symptomatic apical periodontitis and pulp necrosis and localized acute apical abscess.
[read the full story...]Treating PTSD in children and young people #ISTSS2019
In Dr David Trickey’s debut blog for Mental Elf, he comments on the new ISTSS treatment guidelines for children and young people with post traumatic stress disorder.
[read the full story...]Implementing research evidence in schools: senior leaders and teachers – start here!
It’s Spring! Pooky Knightsmith coaxes the Education Elf out of hibernation with a new blog about the recent Education Endowment Foundation report: Putting evidence to work – a school’s guide to implementation.
[read the full story...]Pregnancy and bipolar disorder: international prescribing consensus?
Dean Connolly looks at an international study which asks: Is there consensus across evidence-based guidelines for the psychotropic drug management of bipolar disorder during the perinatal period?
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