Mental Health & Social Bulletin No. 366

All the usual sections in Bulletin no. 366  including the publications section where a new report from the Centre for Mental Health on effective family interventions can be found.   A chance to change: delivering effective famiily programmes to transform lives "sets out the findings of a project on the implementation of evidence-based parenting programmes for children with, or at risk of developing, serious behavioural problems"

Mental Health inpatient disatisfaction

The Care Quality Commission (CQC) has published the results of a survey examining the experiences of mental health inpatients. Although 45% of patients always felt safe on the wards, 16% never felt safe. Furthermore, only one third felt that they had had any involvement in the decisions concerning their treatment.

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Read the survey results