Treatment Blog Posts

• Evaluation of adapted sex offender treatment programme in secure learning disability service finds evidence of positive outcomes

  17 Aug 2011

  • John Northfield

  
• Psychotherapies are as good as antidepressants for treating most types of adult depression

  16 Aug 2011

  • Andre Tomlin

  
• Sertraline and mirtazapine do more harm than good for people with dementia and depression

  15 Aug 2011

  • Andre Tomlin

  
• Problem-solving therapy beats supportive therapy at reducing disability in old people with depression and executive dysfunction

  12 Aug 2011

  • Andre Tomlin

  
• Small number of individuals account for the majority of uses of physical restraint in USA study

  12 Aug 2011

  • John Northfield

  
• Regional variation in health professional attitudes to antipsychotic polypharmacy for schizophrenia

  11 Aug 2011

  • Andre Tomlin

  
• Methodological difficulties continue to hamper evaluation of interventions for challenging behaviour

  11 Aug 2011

  • John Northfield

  
• Depressed adults who take antidepressants for 12 weeks or more have a reduced incidence of heart attack

  10 Aug 2011

  • Andre Tomlin

  
• Group CBT is not cost-effective for treating postnatal depression

  09 Aug 2011

  • Andre Tomlin

  
• Department of Health publish Mental Health Community Teams activity data

  05 Aug 2011

  • Andre Tomlin