Urine drug screening in women's forensic mental health services: is current practice meeting guidelines?

Abortion and Womens Mental Health

First, the methodological difficulties of these studies, especially due to confusing factors, not always easy to control adequately, such as the heterogeneity of women’s groups evaluated in regards to age, race, social status and religious beliefs; the presence of psychological changes or lack thereof, prior to the abortion of; the desire or lack thereof for the pregnancy; whether a woman can r...

Forensic Mental Health Services Managed Care Network

Integration between general practice and mental health services in Italy: guidelines for consultation-liaison services implementation

PURPOSE This paper illustrates some guidelines for the implementation of Consultation-liaison services in contexts where GPs work alone. We present some activity data of our experience in the period 1999-2004 and a critical evaluation of what works and what does not work. CONTEXT In Italy single-sited spontaneous initiatives of co-operation and integration between general practice and psychia...

Digital mental health services in general practice.

in the community, third-sector and statutory organisations, can all contribute. For general practice and primary care this will certainly require different training and more resources. The experience for all could be quite different: an individual with ‘stress’ booking straight into their choice of groups run by Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) services; a patient with psychos...

Bridging the gap between current practice recommendations in national guidelines - a qualitative study of mental health services

Background “National guideline for assessment, treatment and social rehabilitation of persons with concurrent substance use disorders and mental disorders”, launched March 2012, is aimed at a wide range of health services. It holds a separate chapter on implementation. The National Centre for Dual Diagnosis was commissioned by the Norwegian Directorate of Health to develop a plan for implementa...