{"title":"Reimagining psychosis prevention: responding to the accessibility issues of At-Risk Mental State (ARMS) services through a selective public health approach.","authors":"Luke Brown, Siân Lowri Griffiths","doi":"10.1192/bjb.2024.112","DOIUrl":"10.1192/bjb.2024.112","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>At-Risk Mental State (ARMS) services aim to prevent the onset of first-episode psychosis (FEP) in those with specific clinical or genetic risk markers. In England, ARMS services are currently expanding, but the accessibility of this preventative approach remains questionable, especially for a subgroup of FEP patients and those from specific ethnic minority communities. This commentary outlines the key debates about why a complimentary approach to psychosis prevention is necessary, and gives details for an innovative public health strategy, drawing on existing research and health prevention theory.</p>","PeriodicalId":8883,"journal":{"name":"BJPsych Bulletin","volume":" ","pages":"147-151"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2025-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12171833/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142982477","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
BJPsych BulletinPub Date : 2025-06-01Epub Date: 2025-06-17DOI: 10.1192/bjb.2025.30
John L Taylor
{"title":"Author's Reply: Extending section 12 approval under the Mental Health Act to professions other than medicine.","authors":"John L Taylor","doi":"10.1192/bjb.2025.30","DOIUrl":"10.1192/bjb.2025.30","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":8883,"journal":{"name":"BJPsych Bulletin","volume":"49 3","pages":"212"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2025-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12171836/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144309498","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
BJPsych BulletinPub Date : 2025-06-01Epub Date: 2025-06-17DOI: 10.1192/bjb.2025.33
Claire Hilton, Alan Cohen
{"title":"RE: Extending section 12 approval under the Mental Health Act to professions other than medicine.","authors":"Claire Hilton, Alan Cohen","doi":"10.1192/bjb.2025.33","DOIUrl":"10.1192/bjb.2025.33","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":8883,"journal":{"name":"BJPsych Bulletin","volume":"49 3","pages":"211"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2025-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12171835/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144309500","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Moving from psychiatric practice in the UK to Australia: some personal reflections.","authors":"Graham Walker, Andrew Carroll","doi":"10.1192/bjb.2024.69","DOIUrl":"10.1192/bjb.2024.69","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In this article, we reflect on factors which may tempt psychiatrists to move from working in the UK to Australia. A comparison between the UK and Australian healthcare systems is presented. Following this, G.W. offers personal reflections on his transition between working in the UK and Australia, including an experience of being a patient, the benefits of working and training in the respective countries, and personal sacrifices which must be considered. We conclude that individual clinicians must weigh up the positives and negatives of the system which they want to work within, with the best option for each person being specifically individual to them.</p>","PeriodicalId":8883,"journal":{"name":"BJPsych Bulletin","volume":" ","pages":"174-177"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2025-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12171843/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142280054","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The benefits and hazards of psychodrama in the management of mental illness: qualitative study linked to nidotherapy.","authors":"Zenab Ahmed, Peter Tyrer","doi":"10.1192/bjb.2024.57","DOIUrl":"10.1192/bjb.2024.57","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Drama therapy is a popular form of management in mental illness, as it reaches out beyond many other therapies. Few studies have examined both the advantages and disadvantages of this medium. This qualitative study examines both, and finds gains and hazards.</p>","PeriodicalId":8883,"journal":{"name":"BJPsych Bulletin","volume":" ","pages":"152-156"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2025-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12171848/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141905798","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Edward Silva, Sophie Legge, Cecilia Casetta, Eromona Whiskey, Ebenezer Oloyede, Siobhan Gee
{"title":"Understanding clozapine-related blood dyscrasias. Developments, genetics, ethnicity and disparity: it's a CIN.","authors":"Edward Silva, Sophie Legge, Cecilia Casetta, Eromona Whiskey, Ebenezer Oloyede, Siobhan Gee","doi":"10.1192/bjb.2024.38","DOIUrl":"10.1192/bjb.2024.38","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Clozapine remains the gold standard intervention for treatment-resistant schizophrenia; however, it remains underused, especially for some minority groups. A significant impediment is concern about propensity to neutropenia. The aim of this article is to provide an update on current knowledge relating to: the pattern and incidence of severe blood dyscrasias; the effectiveness of current monitoring regimes in reducing harm; the mechanisms of and the distinctions between clozapine-induced neutropenia and agranulocytosis; benign ethnic neutropenia; and changes to the monitoring thresholds in the USA and other international variations. These all have implications for the practical use of clozapine; specifically, how barriers to initiating, maintaining and restarting clozapine can be understood and in many cases overcome, especially for patients from minority groups, potentially with simpler approaches than the use of lithium or G-CSF.</p>","PeriodicalId":8883,"journal":{"name":"BJPsych Bulletin","volume":" ","pages":"163-168"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2025-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12171839/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141199082","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Assessing and managing the suicidal patient: forget the Reverend Bayes and try game theory.","authors":"Olav Nielssen","doi":"10.1192/bjb.2024.76","DOIUrl":"10.1192/bjb.2024.76","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Probability-based estimates of the future suicide of psychiatric patients are of little assistance in clinical practice. This article proposes strategic management of the interaction between the clinician and the patient in the assessment of potentially suicidal patients, using principles derived from game theory, to achieve a therapeutic outcome that minimises the likelihood of suicide. Further developments in the applications of large language models could allow us to quantify the basis for clinical decisions in individual patients. Documenting the basis of those decisions would help to demonstrate an adequate standard of care in every interaction.</p>","PeriodicalId":8883,"journal":{"name":"BJPsych Bulletin","volume":" ","pages":"169-173"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2025-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12171854/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142280053","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Vaso Totsika, Zhixing Yang, Lauren Turner, Charmaine Kohn, Angela Hassiotis, Eilis Kennedy, Michael Absoud, Rachel McNamara, Elizabeth Randell, Sophie Levitt, Gemma Grant, Angela Casbard, Lauris Jacobs, Cristina Di Santo, Claire Buckley, Emma Hignett, Ashley Liew
{"title":"Mapping the pathway and support offered to children with an intellectual disability referred to specialist mental health services in the UK.","authors":"Vaso Totsika, Zhixing Yang, Lauren Turner, Charmaine Kohn, Angela Hassiotis, Eilis Kennedy, Michael Absoud, Rachel McNamara, Elizabeth Randell, Sophie Levitt, Gemma Grant, Angela Casbard, Lauris Jacobs, Cristina Di Santo, Claire Buckley, Emma Hignett, Ashley Liew","doi":"10.1192/bjb.2024.63","DOIUrl":"10.1192/bjb.2024.63","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Aims and method: </strong>This survey of 66 specialist mental health services aimed to provide an up-to-date description of pathways of care and interventions available to children with an intellectual disability referred for behaviours that challenge or with suspected mental health problems.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Overall, 24% of services made contact with a family at referral stage, whereas 29% contacted families at least once during the waiting list phase. Only two in ten services offered any therapeutic input during the referral or waiting list stages. During the active caseload phase, services offered mostly psychoeducation (52-59%), followed by applied behaviour analytic approaches for behaviours that challenge (52%) and cognitive-behavioural therapy (41%). Thirty-six per cent of services had not offered any packaged or named intervention in the past 12 months.</p><p><strong>Clinical implications: </strong>With increasing waiting times for specialist mental health support, services need to consider increasing the amount of contact and therapeutic input on offer throughout all stages of a child's journey with the service.</p>","PeriodicalId":8883,"journal":{"name":"BJPsych Bulletin","volume":" ","pages":"157-162"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2025-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12171834/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142387582","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
BJPsych BulletinPub Date : 2025-06-01Epub Date: 2025-06-17DOI: 10.1192/bjb.2025.31
Marta Corti, Aized Raza Shahbaz, Mai Elsawaf, Alice Roberts, Sophie Flood
{"title":"RE: Promethazine is not a good option to aid sleep quality, especially for people using psychiatric services.","authors":"Marta Corti, Aized Raza Shahbaz, Mai Elsawaf, Alice Roberts, Sophie Flood","doi":"10.1192/bjb.2025.31","DOIUrl":"10.1192/bjb.2025.31","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":8883,"journal":{"name":"BJPsych Bulletin","volume":"49 3","pages":"209"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2025-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12171844/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144309501","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
BJPsych BulletinPub Date : 2025-06-01Epub Date: 2025-06-17DOI: 10.1192/bjb.2025.32
Jacob D King
{"title":"Disentangling the role of sedation from improving sleep quality in crisis care.","authors":"Jacob D King","doi":"10.1192/bjb.2025.32","DOIUrl":"10.1192/bjb.2025.32","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":8883,"journal":{"name":"BJPsych Bulletin","volume":"49 3","pages":"210"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2025-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12171841/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144309499","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}