January 2006

26th January

Publications

• New council report - CR132. Safety for Psychiatrists
• New Gaskell book - International Outcome Measures in Mental Health

26th January

Disaster's relief

• Disaster Management and Psycho-social management  
  A two-day international seminar was inaugurated at the Fountain House in Pakistan on Saturday, 21 January 2006.

19th January

Disaster's relief

• Urdu speaking volunteers required for a WHO-UNICEF project in Pakistan   
  Further details of this and other volunteer work are available from the International Affairs Unit at the College.

13th January

Training and Development

• A Competency Based Curriculum for Specialist Training in Psychiatry   
  Core and General Module (provisional version). Not yet approved by PMETB
  

13th January

Training and Development

• Dean's education newsletter - Jan 06   

10th January

Disaster's relief

• Rebuilding from the rubble
  The BMJ article following the International Mental Health meeting on 19th Dec. 2005

9th January

Members

• New Members Declaration

5th January

For the attention of all Academic Psychiatrists

• Notice of new Faculty of Academic Psychiatry

4th January

Disaster's relief

• The first two progress reports on the BPPA earthquake trauma relief initiative are now available
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4 January 2006

Press releases

• Advances in treatment of borderline personality disorder
  Embargoed until 00.01 am on Wednesday 4th January 2006

• Depression frequent and highly persistent in 'oldest old'
  Embargoed until 00.01 am on Wednesday 4th January 2006

• Is living in town or country better for your mental health?
  Embargoed until 00.01 am on Wednesday 4th January 2006

• Poor job satisfaction and burnout among mental health social workers
  Embargoed until 00.01 am on Wednesday 4th January 2006

• Psychiatric patients who smoke
  Embargoed until 00.01 am on Wednesday 4th January 2006

• Risk of puerperal psychosis highest after birth of first baby
  Embargoed until 00.01 am on Wednesday 4th January 2006

• Specialised care for early psychosis. Service users report better quality of life and satisfactioncompared with standard care
  Embargoed until 00.01 am on Wednesday 4th January 2006

3rd January

Press release

• 'NICE' Guidance on cholinesterase inhibitors
  Results of a survey of members of the Faculty of Old Age Psychiatry of the Royal College of Psychiatrists