Databases Evidence-based Practice/CPD
Journals Books
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Mental Health and Psychiatry
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NEW CONTENT
New ebook content added 16/06/2020
ABC of dementia / 2nd ed. edited by Felicity A. Richards, Bernard Coope. 2020.
Note you will need a local NHS Athens account to access (register here)
New ebook content added 05/05/2020
Introducing cognitive analytic therapy : principles and practice of a relational approach to mental health / Anthony Ryle and Ian B. Kerr. 2020.
Mental health and wellbeing in the workplace : a practical guide for employers and employees /Gill Hasson, Donna Butler. 2020.
Timely psychosocial interventions in dementia care : evidence-based practice / edited by Jill Manthorpe and Esme Moniz-Cook. 2020.
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Databases (handout)
Search the NHS healthcare databases:
AMED- covers topics for allied health professions
British Nursing Index (BNI)- primarily of use for nurses but also includes allied health, CINAHL- international nursing & allied health
EMBASE- European biomedicine– good for pharmacology & drug therapy
EMCARE-international nursing & allied health
HMIC- health service management & organisation incl grey literature
MEDLINE- most medical/surgical and other health topics
PsycINFO- psychology & psychiatry including psychological aspects of trauma/injury
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Databases contain bibliographic records i.e. references. Whilst you won’t have fulltext access to all the articles, for some journals there will be a link to online access or details of library print holding. If we don’t hold your required article you can consider making an article request via the library.
See the library website for details of our information skills training programme and literature searching support services.
Evidence Based Practice and CPD
A range of evidence-based resources are available to help inform patient care including:
- BMJ Best Practice (don’t use Internet Explorer, choose alternative browser)
Evidence-based research, guidelines and expert opinion offering step-by-step guidance on diagnosis, prognosis, treatment and prevention.
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When prompted, set up a personal account to download free App
- ClinicalKey– clinical insight search tool which also gives access to over 1100 electronic books and 500 journals and other fulltext resources
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- Cochrane Library– collection of databases (details here) containing different types of high-quality, independent evidence such as Systematic Reviews, RCTs and Health Technology Assessments.
- TRIP Database– clinical search tool designed to allow health professionals to rapidly identify the highest quality clinical evidence for clinical practice.
Journals
Full A-Z list of all journals– you will need an NHS Athens account- click here to register.
Selected Mental Health and Psychiatry journals below
If we don’t hold your required article you can consider making an article request via the library.
Books (handout)
Books (guide)
Search our print and electronic book holdings.
Note- you will need an NHS Athens login to to access ebooks.
This is a regional NHS catalogue, so in location select ‘Plymouth, Derriford Hospital, PLY’ to limit your search to books held here.
You can also log in and renew your books here (if you have not already made a pin number for your library account follow the instructions on screen).
If we don’t have the book you require you can consider making a book request. (Service for registered borrowers, undertaking NHS work. Registration forms are available here).
We have the majority of the Reading Agency’s Books on Prescription lists for:
Selected psychiatry ebooks – click title to login with NHS Athens account
Morrison, P., Taylor, D. and McGuire, P. (2020) The Maudsley guidelines on advanced prescribing in psychosis. Chichester: John Wiley and Sons.
| Title |
Year |
Edition |
First Author |
| ABC of alcohol |
2015 |
5th |
McCune |
| ABC of anxiety and depression. |
2014 |
|
Gask |
| ABC of autism |
2019 |
|
Haroon |
| ABC of dementia |
2020 |
2nd |
Richards |
| ACT made simple: an easy-to-read primer on acceptance and commitment therapy |
2019 |
2nd |
Harris |
| Acute psychiatric emergencies: a practical approach. |
2020 |
|
Advanced Life Support Group |
| Addiction medicine: science and practice |
2020 |
2nd |
Johnson |
| ADHD in Adults : A Practical Guide to Evaluation and Management |
2013 |
|
Surman |
| Appearance anxiety: a guide to understanding body dysmorphic disorder for young people, families and professionals |
2019 |
|
National & Specialist OCD, BDD and Related Disorders Service for Young People |
| Appreciative healthcare practice : a guide to compassionate person-centred care. |
2015 |
|
Roberts |
| The assessment and treatment of addiction: best practices and new frontiers. |
2019 |
|
Danovitch |
| Behavioral Treatments for Sleep Disorders |
2011 |
|
Perlis |
| Care Act 2014: an a-z of law and practice |
2017 |
|
Mandelstam |
| Care planning in mental health : promoting recovery. |
2013 |
2nd |
Hall |
| CBT for adults : a practical guide for clinicians |
2014 |
|
Drummond |
| Child Sexual Exploitation After Rotherham |
2017 |
|
Gladman |
| Clinical topics in disorders of intellectual development |
2015 |
|
Woodbury-Smith |
| A clinician’s brief guide to children’s mental health law. |
2016 |
|
Huline-Dickens |
| A clinician’s brief guide to the Mental Capacity Act. |
2015 |
2nd |
Brindle |
| A clinician’s brief guide to the Mental Health Act. |
2016 |
4th |
Zigmond |
| A clinician’s guide to mental health conditions in adults with autism spectrum disorders: assessment and interventions |
2020 |
|
Chaplain |
| A clinician’s guide to non-pharmacological dementia therapies |
2020 |
|
Nightingale |
| Cognitive behavioural therapy for dummies |
2020 |
3rd |
Branch |
| Companion to Psychiatric Studies |
2010 |
8th |
Johnstone |
| Compassion focused therapy for dummies |
2016 |
|
Welford |
| Complex Disorders in Pediatric Psychiatry: A Clinician’s Guide |
2018 |
|
Driver |
| Core Psychiatry |
2012 |
3rd |
Wright |
| Counselling skills for dummies |
2013 |
2nd |
Evans |
| Creative ideas for solution focused practice : inspiring guidance, ideas and activities |
2017 |
|
Milner |
| DBT therapeutic activity ideas for working with teens: skills and exercises for working with clients with borderline personality disorder, depression, anxiety, and other emotional sensitivities |
2018 |
|
Lozier |
| Defining autism: a guide to brain, biology, and behavior. |
2019 |
|
Casanova |
| Dementia: support for family and friends |
2020 |
2nd |
Pulsford |
| The ECT Handbook |
2013 |
3rd |
Waite |
| Emergency psychiatry |
2015 |
|
Nicholls |
| Enabling recovery : the principles and practice of rehabilitation psychiatry |
2015 |
2nd |
Holloway |
| Fast facts: Depression |
2017 |
4th |
Haddad |
| Finding my professional heart : a brief guide to compassionate care and mindfulness for practitioners |
2016 |
|
Oelofsen |
| Fundamentals of Mental Health Nursing : An Essential Guide for Nursing and Healthcare Students. |
2018 |
|
Clifton |
| Handbook of secure care. |
2015 |
|
Dickens |
| The health improvement profile (HIP) : a manual to promote physical wellbeing in people with severe mental illness. |
2015 |
|
Hardy |
| How to Become a More Effective CBT Therapist: Mastering Metacompetence in Clinical Practice |
2014 |
|
Whittington |
| Improving the psychological wellbeing of children and young people: effective prevention and early intervention across health, education and social care |
2018 |
|
Faulconbridge |
| In therapy : how conversations with psychotherapists really work |
2016 |
|
Orbach |
| Independent mental health advocacy : the right to be heard : context, values and good practice |
2015 |
|
Newbigging |
| An integrative approach to treating babies and children: a multidisciplinary guide |
2017 |
|
Wilks |
| Integrative psychotherapy in theory and practice: a relational, systemic and ecological approach. |
2020 |
|
Hawkins |
| Intelligent kindness : reforming the culture of healthcare |
2011 |
|
Ballatt |
| International perspectives on reminiscence, life review and life story work |
2018 |
|
Gibson |
| Interprofessional care and mental health: a discursive exploration of team meeting practices |
2018 |
|
Smart |
| Introducing cognitive analytic therapy : principles and practice of a relational approach to mental health |
2020 |
2nd |
Ryle |
| Introducing mental health: a practical guide. |
2015 |
2nd |
Kinsella |
| Kaufman’s Clinical Neurology for Psychiatrists |
2017 |
8th |
Kaufman |
| Leadership for person-centred dementia care |
2013 |
1st |
Loveday |
| Learning Disability Nursing at a Glance |
2015 |
|
Gates |
| Legal aspects of mental capacity |
2016 |
2nd |
Dimond |
| Lecture Notes: Psychiatry |
2014 |
11th |
Gulati |
| Management for psychiatrists |
2016 |
4th |
Bhugra |
| A manifesto for mental health: why we need a revolution in mental health care. |
2019 |
|
Kinderman |
| Massachusetts General Hospital Comprehensive Clinical Psychiatry |
2016 |
2nd |
Stern |
| Massachusetts General Hospital Handbook of General Hospital Psychiatry |
2010 |
6th |
Stern |
| Massachusetts General Hospital Psychopharmacology and Neurotherapeutics |
2016 |
|
Stern |
| Mastery of your anxiety and panic : therapist guide |
2007 |
4th |
Craske |
| Mastery of your anxiety and panic : workbook |
2007 |
4th |
Craske |
| Mastery of your anxiety and worry : therapist guide |
2006 |
2nd |
Zinbarg |
| The Maudsley guidelines on advanced prescribing in psychosis |
2020 |
|
Morrison |
The Maudsley prescribing guidelines in psychiatry
(download for up to 3 months at a time) |
2018 |
13th |
Taylor |
| Maybe you should talk to someone: a therapist, her therapist, and our lives revealed |
2019 |
|
Gottlieb |
| MCQs in psychiatry for medical students. |
2016 |
|
Lally |
| Mental health and wellbeing in the workplace : a practical guide for employers and employees |
2020 |
|
Hasson |
| Mental Health Nursing at a Glance |
2015 |
|
Smith |
| Mental illness, human rights and the law |
2016 |
|
Kelly |
| Meyler’s Side Effects of Psychiatric Drugs |
2009 |
|
Aronson |
| The mindfulness and acceptance workbook for depression: using acceptance and commitment therapy to move through depression and create a life worth living. |
2017 |
2nd |
Strosahl |
| Mindfulness for dummies |
2020 |
3rd |
Alidina |
| A multidisciplinary handbook of child and adolescent mental health for front-line professionals |
2018 |
3rd |
Dogra |
| The neurodiverse workplace: an employer’s guide to managing and working with neurodivergent employees, clients and customers |
2020 |
|
Honeybourne |
| Oxford Handbook of Mental Health Nursing |
2015 |
2nd |
Callaghan |
| Oxford handbook of psychiatry |
2019 |
4th |
Semple |
| Overcoming challenges in the Mental Capacity Act 2005: practical guidance for working with complex issues |
2019 |
|
Kong |
| Partnering for recovery in mental health : a practical guide to person-centered planning. |
2014 |
|
Tondora |
| Pocket prescriber psychiatry |
2020 |
|
Rogers |
| Posttraumatic Stress Disorder |
2015 |
2nd |
Ford |
| Practical Guide to the Mental Capacity Act 2005 |
2015 |
|
Graham |
| Practical supervision for counsellors who work with young people. |
2017 |
|
Luxmoore |
| Process-based CBT: the science and core clinical competencies of cognitive behavioral therapy |
2018 |
|
Hayes |
| Promoting public mental health and well-being: principles into practice. |
2015 |
|
Brown |
| Promoting resilience in dementia care: a person-centred framework for assessment and support planning |
2020 |
|
Christie |
| Psychiatric interviewing : the art of understanding |
2017 |
3rd |
Shea |
| Psychiatric mental health nursing : concepts of care in evidence-based practice |
2015 |
8th |
Townsend |
| Psychiatry at a glance |
2012 |
5th |
Katona |
| Psychiatry: Breaking the ICE : introductions, common tasks and emergencies for trainees |
2016 |
|
Stringer |
| Psychology and Geriatrics |
2015 |
|
Bensadon |
| Rapid mental health nursing |
2016 |
|
Smith |
| The reality of recovery in personality disorder. |
2016 |
|
Castillo |
| A reflective guide to gender identity counselling |
2019 |
|
Webb |
| Reframe your thinking around autism: how the polyvagal theory and brain plasticity help us make sense of autism |
2015 |
|
Bridges |
| The relaxation and stress reduction workbook |
2019 |
7th |
Davis |
| Reminiscence and Life Story Work: A Practice Guide |
2011 |
|
Gibson |
| Research methods in psychology |
2020 |
6th |
Howitt |
| Responding after suicide : a practical guide to immediate postvention |
2020 |
|
Walraven-Thissen |
| Safeguarding adults and the law: an a-z of law and practice |
2019 |
3rd |
Mandelstam |
| Safeguarding adults under the care act 2014: understanding good practice |
2017 |
|
Cooper |
| Safeguarding children across services: messages from research. |
2012 |
|
Davies |
| Schatzberg’s manual of clinical psychopharmacology. |
2019 |
9th |
Schatzberg |
| Self-care for the mental health practitioner: the theory, research, and practice of preventing and addressing the occupational hazards of the profession |
2014 |
|
Malinowski |
| Sensory perceptual issues in autism and Asperger syndrome : different sensory experiences – different perceptual worlds |
2016 |
2nd |
Bogdashina |
| A short introduction to attachment and attachment disorder |
2017 |
2nd |
Pearce |
| A short introduction to understanding and supporting children with eating disorders. |
2016 |
|
Watson |
| Sims’ symptoms in the mind: textbook of descriptive psychopathology |
2018 |
6th |
Oyebode |
| Solution focused harm reduction: working effectively with people who misuse substances |
2017 |
|
Foy |
| Spirituality and narrative in psychiatric practice : stories of mind and soul |
2016 |
|
Cook |
| Suicide Risk Management: A Manual for Health Professionals |
2012 |
2nd |
Chehil |
| Supporting the mental health of children in care : evidence-based practice. |
2017 |
|
Guishard-Pine |
| Supporting positive behaviour in intellectual disabilities and autism: practical strategies for addressing challenging behaviour |
2020 |
|
Osgood |
| Supporting transgender and non-binary people with disabilities or illnesses: a good practice guide for health and social care provision |
2019 |
|
Kermode |
| Theory and practice of democratic therapeutic community treatment |
2017 |
|
Pearce |
| Theory of Addiction |
2013 |
2nd |
West |
| Timely psychosocial interventions in dementia care |
2020 |
|
Manthorpe |
| Treatment of Eating Disorders |
2010 |
|
Maine |
| Understanding OCD: a guide for parents and professionals |
2017 |
|
Lewin |
| Using solution focused practice with adults in health and social care |
2017 |
|
Milner |
| Vital conversations : improving communication between doctors and patients |
2014 |
|
Rosen |
| Working with the trauma of rape and sexual violence : a guide for professionals. |
2017 |
|
Daniels |
| Workplace-based assessments in psychiatry |
2011 |
2nd |
Malik |
