Mental health update

New stuff of interest to mental health specialists this month includes:

The Mental Capacity Act- a new act providing Independent Mental Capacity Advocates for patients unable to give consent to treatment

The Bath Assessment of Subject Quality of Life in Dementia – learn how patients with dementia view the effects of treatment and care on their quality of life (Research Institute for the Care of the Elderly)

The Depression Report – recommendations for the provision of therapy for people with depression, schizophrenia and anxiety (London School of Economics)

Ten High Impact Changes for Mental Health Services- Ten areas of service improvement in mental health, backed up by case studies (Care Services Improvement Partnership)

Child and Adolescent Mental Health: a guide for healthcare professionals- examines mental health problems, treatments, barriers to treatment and strategies for care for young people (British Medical Association)

Free Economics and Business Data on the Web

A Guide to Free Economics and Business Data on the Web has been written by John Sloman, the Director of the Economics Network.

End of life, quality of life

The NHS and the National Council for Palliative Care have published a new guide for care homes detailing how to provide end-of-life care for residents. The report is available in full via the End of Life Care website, which also contains lots of useful resources focusing on palliative care including lots of downloadable resources relating to carers, care homes, nursing, hospices and lots more. Nice little site.

Best of the Web booklets from Intute

 

Intute has published a series of new Best of the Web booklets. You can order print copies or make copies of the online versions. The following subjects are covered:

• Archaeology
• Business and Tourism
• Computing
• English
• Healthcare and Medicine
• History
• Social Research
• Visual Arts

New social science research – children

There have been a large quantity on social science publication coming out over the last couple of weeks from the Joseph Rowntree foundation. Take a look here for details of reports on a wide range of subjects including child poverty, teenage pregnancy and parenting.  

Starboard Update

Starboard version 7 for the interactive whiteboards at UW is being launched. Take a look at this post by Colin Austin of ILS for information on tutorials.

Health Research in the UK

The UK Clinical Research Collaboration have published a report outlining health research being carried out across the country. Looking at peer reviewed research directly funded by the eleven largest charities and governmental organisations, the report shows the types of research being carried out so as to help avoid duplication of effort and to better target grants.

What is Blended Learning?

 

‘A lecturer looks beyond the jargon.’

Lecturer Mark Russell (University of Hertfordshire) has written an article about blended learning in the latest JISC Inform Newsletter.

Food glorious food…

A couple more useful sites for those interested in nutrition:

Food fact sheets: the British Dietetic Association have published a series of factsheets on everything from alcohol to sugar via weaning and packed lunches. Adobe reader required.

Traffic light labelling: the Food Standards Agency have put together a new page to explain traffic light labelling and its relationship to health eating.

Ciaroscuro – contemporary art, design and culture journal

Ciaroscuro is a free online journal featuring reviews and critiques of events, works, ideas and processes in all sectors and genres, including functional design. It’s published monthly and the web site includes back issues going back to February 2005.