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2010

January     July

February     August

March   September

April   October

May         November

June   December

 

July

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• July eNewsletter 

 

 

• CPD Online
• The assessment and management of obsessive-compulsive disorder: Part 1
  Part 1 – the regulation of madness until the 19th century 

 

 

• Press releases
  Psychiatrists make recommendations for redesign of mental health services
  Brain study suggests antidepressants ‘work within hours’
  Single MRI scan ‘could help diagnose bipolar disorder’
  Scottish prisoners ‘have problems judging facial expressions’

 

 

• New publications
  Social Inclusion and Mental Health
  Clinical Topics in Cultural Psychiatry

 

 

• College blog 
  Minds on Film

 

 

 

 

June

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• June eNewsletter 

 

 

• CPD Online
• Models of madness in the Western world:
  Part 1 – the regulation of madness until the 19th century 

 

 

• Book now
  International Congress of RCPsych, 2010  

 

 

• Press releases
  RCPsych responds to review of mental health research funding 
  Cigarette smoking ‘could increase risk of depression  

 

 

• Media coverage
  BBC Radio 4: President Professor Dinesh Bhugra on All in the Mind
  BBC News Online: Dr Peter Byrne comments on loneliness report

 

 

• Podcasts
  Dr Daphne Keen explores autism, ethnicity and maternal immigration with Dr Ovais Badat

 

 

 

May

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• May eNewsletter 

 

 

• CPD Online
• How to evaluate your CAMH service

 

 

• Book now
  International Congress of RCPsych, 2010  
  

 

• Media coverage
  Millions wasted on treating mentally ill away from their communities, SocietyGuardian
  RCPsych comments on websites which feature images promoting self-harm, BBC Newsbeat
  Psychiatrists call for end to glamorising of eating disorders, Daily Telegraph

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

April

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• April eNewsletter 

 

 

• Current mental health issues
• College launches General Election 2010 four-step manifesto

 

 

• Press releases
  Decision to ban mental health slurs during election campaign wins praise 
  Disruptive children ‘could have undiagnosed communication problems’
  Occasional teenage cannabis use ‘predicts later drug use’

 

• Podcast
  Dr James MacCabe discusses ‘Excellent school performance and risk of adult bipolar disorder...with Dr Ovais Badat 

 

 

• New publications
  Schizophrenia: The NICE guideline (Updated edition)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

March

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• March eNewsletter 

 

 

• CPD Online
  Helping the addicted doctor

 

 

• Press releases
  Psychiatrists identify new phenomenon: ‘I want to be bipolar…’
  Psychiatrists call for new ‘editorial code’ to end media promotion of a thin body ideal

 

 

• New publications
  Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services: An Operational Handbook (Second edition)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

February

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• February eNewsletter 

 

 

• Podcast
  Recovery from serious alcohol addiction

 

 

• CPD Online
  Avoiding bias in judgements, decisions and outcome  

 

 

• Press releases
  ADHD may help creative genius to flourish, says psychiatrist
  Pupils with top grades ‘four times more likely to develop bipolar disorder’
  Pregnant women should stop believing the ‘baby brain’ myth

 

 

• College blog 
  Dr  Peter Hughes heads to Haiti after the earthquake
  

   

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

January

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• January eNewsletter 

 

 

 

• Annual Review 2009
  

 

 

   

• CPD Online
  Adolescent forensic psychiatry
  Human rights and the Human Rights Act 1998
  FREDA – a human rights-based approach to clinical practice 
  Psychiatric aspects of HIV

 

 

 

 

• Press releases
  Psychiatrists welcome call to end disqualification of MPs on grounds of mental illness
  Dementia risk for older people with diabetes and memory problems

 

 

 

 

• Media coverage 
  Lead Professor Richard Williams on the impact of the Haiti earthquake BBC news
  

  College President Dinesh Bhugra chats to presenter Libby Purves, Radio 4
  Detaining children in Britain - No place for the innocent, The Independent