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Trauma and Violence Informed Care: A Concept Analysis and Implications for Mental Health Nursing Practice - Isobel - 2025 - International Journal of Mental Health Nursing onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Trauma and Violence Informed Care: A Concept Analysis and Implications for Mental Health Nursing Practice
Trauma informed care has been taken up across healthcare as a way of delivering care. With evolving understandings of what it means to be trauma informed, and in response to some limitations with tra....
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December 21, 2025 at 10:42 PM
‘I Wish It Were More Often Told to People Before They Are Prescribed These Medications How Hard It Is to Get Off Them’: A Qualitative Descriptive Analysis of Free‐Text Responses to a Survey on Reducing and Stopping Psychiatric Medication - Boland - 2025 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
‘I Wish It Were More Often Told to People Before They Are Prescribed These Medications How Hard It Is to Get Off Them’: A Qualitative Descriptive Analysis of Free‐Text Responses to a Survey on Reducing and Stopping Psychiatric Medication
Introduction Despite significant increases in the prescribing of psychiatric medication in recent years, many uncertainties exist regarding the process of reducing and stopping these medications. A ...
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November 5, 2025 at 9:35 PM
Psychiatric Coercion Lacks Ethical or Legal Justification, Scholar Argues www.madinamerica.com/2025/09/psyc...
Psychiatric Coercion Lacks Ethical or Legal Justification, Scholar Argues
Dirk Richter reviews the five ethical and legal standards for forced treatment and finds none are met.
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September 19, 2025 at 3:38 AM
Reposted
First paper from our international ECT survey just out.

On all 5 efficacy measures most recipients, and most relatives, reported it either made no difference or made things worse. Some were helped though.

Thanks to all 1,144 who completed the survey.

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A Survey of 1144 ECT Recipients, Family Members and Friends: Does ECT Work?
The last placebo-controlled ECT trial for depression occurred in 1985. While awaiting trials that meet today's standards of evidence-based medicine, this paper presents the responses, to an online su...
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August 11, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Reposted
Proud to join with WHO in rebuttal of an attack on their Guidance from prominent ECT champions. ‘Misrepresents the guidance…selectively cites literature and overlooks concerns about ECT’s safety, effectiveness and ethics’ www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Electroconvulsive therapy: reaffirming the case for caution, consent, and rights
We welcome the opportunity to respond to Cooper and colleagues' Comment1 on the 2023 WHO and Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights publication on Mental health, human rights ...
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June 24, 2025 at 5:34 PM