Call for applications – Deadline 31st January 2024 A guidance sheet can be viewed here. This call for applications for support is for people who want to build research skills. Up to £1500 will be offered to each of two… Continue reading
A reminder that our next Seminar – ‘Looking For Love in All The Wrong Places’ – Chemsex Crime, Risk & Vulnerability will be held on Thursday 23rd November, 5-7pm. This will be a free virtual event via Zoom. Spaces are limited… Continue reading
Our next Seminar – ‘Looking For Love in All The Wrong Places’ – Chemsex Crime, Risk & Vulnerability will be held on Thursday 23rd November, 5-7pm. This will be a free virtual event via Zoom. Spaces are limited on a… Continue reading
The Suicide prevention in England: 5-year cross-sector strategy has just been published1. For hospital inpatients, the good news is that, based on National Confidential Inquiry2 figures, ‘collective efforts to improve patient safety led to a 35% fall in suicides in… Continue reading
By Dr Mindy Reeves, ST8 Dual Forensics CAMHS Psychiatry Trainee and Dr Holly Wolton, ST8 Dual Forensics CAMHS Psychiatry Trainee This article appears in our latest newsletter (Summer 2023) which can be downloaded here. The 60 secure units for children and… Continue reading
by Dr Laura Janes – Consultant solicitor, GT Stewart Solicitors This article appears in our latest newsletter (Summer 2023) which can be downloaded here. The problem with the law is that it tends to galvanise around legal events rather than the… Continue reading
By Dr Gwen AdsheadConsultant Forensic Psychiatrist and Psychotherapist This article appears in our latest newsletter (Summer 2023) which can be downloaded here. It is well established that a sub-group of young people persist in criminal rule breaking and violence from their… Continue reading
by Dr Enys Delmage – Consultant in Adolescent Forensic PsychiatryNgã Taiohi – National Youth Forensic Unit. Mental Health, Addiction & Intellectual Disability Service (MHAIDS), New Zealand This article appears in our latest newsletter (Summer 2023) which can be downloaded here. Adolescence… Continue reading
This is an invitation worth taking. It is the title of a book just published by The Borough Press. Twelve stories have been brought together by Joanna Cannon, once a practising psychiatrist and now an author of fiction. Nothing in… Continue reading
The National Forensic Psychiatry Trainee Conference at the end of May, in Worcester College, Oxford was a great success. Many, if not most of the UK’s higher trainees were there and research a strong feature, thanks largely on this aspect… Continue reading