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PSIGE Newsletter :: Contents of Edition :: Number 104

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• Editorial - Arlene Astell
• Chair’s Letter - Sinclair Lough
• North West PSIGE – a vibrant group - Sarah Butchard & Sylvia Dillon
• Life story work in Oldham – embedding it into practice. - Polly Kaiser, Ken Holt, Linda Green, Chris Newton, Julie McBride, Keren Cohen, Christine Wilson & Paul Hutton
• A toast to Joy - Jeff Garland
• Improving Access to Psychological Therapies for older people in the Wirral - Rachel Glynn-Williams
• Are older service users interested in using computerised CBT for depression and anxiety? - Kelly Elsegood
• Clinical psychology in intermediate care – an exciting new world - Helen Newby
• Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy in Lancashire - Alistair Smith
• Religion and therapeutic intervention with older people: Reflections on a thorny issue - Ruth Hodson
• Developing supervision guidelines on neuropsychological working in older adults - Gavin Newby & Sylvia Dillon
• Why are we here? Demonstrating the role and value of psychology services in physical health settings - Jessica Read
• Retirement - what’s that? - Diana Pidwell
• ‘You say Goodbye and I say Hello’ – narrative therapy and remembering practices with older people - Polly Kaiser
• Collaboration between the three training courses - Cathy Amor, Sylvia Dillon & Linda Steen
• The subjective experience of Quality of Life in people with moderate to severe dementia - Yvonne Woodward
• Inaccurate assumptions: A trainee’s view on starting the older adult placement - Ceri Woodrow
• Special Interest web pages - Sarah Dexter-Smith
• eographical Group Convenors as at 18 May, 2007
• PSIGE Committee 2007/2008

PSIGE Newsletter :: Contents of Edition :: Number 103

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PSIGE Newsletter :: Contents of Edition Number 102

• Guest Editorial
• Letter from the Chair
• Journey into the unknown - Cressida Hammerton
• Happy 10th Birthday! Celebrating our 10 year journey with Person Centred Care & Dementia Care Mapping in Norfolk - Sally Stapleton, Judith Farmer, Siobhan Smyth & Juni West.
• The Cambridge Care Homes Project: The experience of developing a training and support service for care homes - Alistair Gaskell, Anna Forrest, Claire Illingworth & Jan Robins
• Developing a coping group for people with memory problems - Claire Illingworth & Anna Forrest
• The Sunshine Garden - Is an external environment beneficial for people with dementia? - Claire Matchwick & Cath Burley
• Vascular Dementia : An unsupported journey - Yve Griffin & Cath Burley
• The relationship between beliefs about stroke & post-stroke depression - Catherine Ford & Malcolm Adams
• Neuropsychology for Novices : CALMER-OPS for training placements - Laura Sutton & Ross Chernin
• Experiences of using a dementia map model - Rachel Wenman
• First steps towards a solution-focused older peoples mental health service - Nick Oliver
• Older adults experience of group cognitive therapy for low self-esteem - Erica Richmond & Lucy Matthews
• Using Cognitive Analytical Therapy to guide indirect working in dementia services - Julie Clarke
• Diploma in Cognitive Analytical Therapy - Liz Carter
• Elderly Mentally Disordered Offenders. What next? - Clive Sims
• Book Review
• Geographical Group Convenors as at May 15 2007
• PSIGE Committee 2007/2008

PSIGE Newsletter :: Contents of Nottingham Conference Edition :: Number 101

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• Letter from the Chair
• Letter from the Editor
• Maintaining affectional bonds: The significance and meaning of companion animals for pet owners living in homes for older people - Susan Pooley
• Late onset mood problems: A positive approach - Marie Oldfield & Chris Clarke
• Treating challenging behaviour in care settings: Audit of a community service using the neuropsychiatric inventory. - Amy Wood-Mitchell, Lorna Mackenzie, Malcolm Stephenson & Ian A.James.
• Symbolic Interacitonism - Stéphane Duckett
• Budding Flowers : The GATE-ways program for people with dementia - Margart Muir
• Experiences of offering EMDR to older people with PTSD in Coventry - Sally Robbins, Amanda Clarke & iris Kay
• See and hear the real me - not just dementia - Glynice Smith
• Exploring family functioning post-stroke - Camilla Dyer
• The St. Andrews Sexual Behaviour Assessment (SASBA): Development of a standardised recording instrument for the measurment and assessment of challenging sexual behaviour in people with progressive and acquired neurological impairment - Caroline Knight, Chrissie Johnson, Nick Alderman, Sharon green, Louise Birkett-Swan & Graeme Yorston
• Keeping older adults safe: What happens when things go wrong? - Sarah Head & Ally Taft.
• Annual Conference reports from Bursary recipients
• Geographical Group Convenors as at May 15 2007
• PSIGE Committee 2006/2007

PSIGE Newsletter :: Contents of July 2007 Edition :: Number 100

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• Letter from the Chair
• Letter from the Editor
• Letter from the Guest editor
• Neuropsychological Assessment with Older People: Ecologically Valid Measures - Yamna Satgunasingam
• Some implications of different methods of neuroimaging for clinical (neuro)psychological practice - Syd Hiskey
• Is a new town good for the mind? A review of mental health problems in planned communities - Loretta White, Sara Banks, and Steve Davies
• Clinical Case Study informed by Psychodynamic ideas - Malini Maharasingam
• A Personal Construct Psychology Exploration of Dementia Caregiving -Amanda Bingham
• Ward round conduct: a survey of staff attitudes to a code of conduct and observations on current practice - Helen Eracleous, Clare Lawson
• An Investigation into Carer Experiences of a Memory Clinic Service: Satisfaction and Identified Needs - Dr Joanna Coyle
• Befriending and Costs of Caring (BECCA); Does service use by carers differ across two areas of England. - Xanthippe Tzimoula, Amy Bartlett & Georgina Charlesworth
• Developing evidence-based practice - A Cognitive Stimulation Group for people with dementia - Louise Blurton
• Development of a therapeutic day hospital - Lesley Benham
• Statement of equivalence - Michael Zivor
• Tavistock training programme
• Geographical Group Convenors
• PSIGE Committee

PSIGE Newsletter :: Contents of Spring 2007 Edition :: Number 99

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• Letter from the Chair
• Letter from Editor
• I am angry with Primo Levi - Stephane Duckett
• Compassionate Mind - Paul Green
• Person-centred care : the holy grail or a muddled and misguided goal - Ian Andrew James
• Post - Traumatic Stress Symptomatology following Stroke - Maire Sharkey
• Weight change and in-patients with dementia: a preliminary study - El-Awad Hamid et al
• Tribal Stigma - Stephane Duckett
• Diagnosis - Paul Elson
• Carers literature review
• PSIGE Research Prize 2007
• Members updates
• Book reviews
• Geographical Group Convenors
• PSIGE Committee Members

PSIGE Newsletter :: Contents of Edition Number 98 : April 2007 : Special Edition - Driving in Dementia

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• Letter from the Chair
• Letter from the Editor
• Letter from the guest editors - Introduction to the conference - Liz Baikie, Consultant Clinical Psychologist, NHS Lothian and Convenor, Scottish PSIGE
• Service Users experiences of driving with dementiaPart 1 - Alex Scobbie ; Part 2 - James McKillop
• Dementia and Driving: the DVLA viewpoint - Dr Heather Major, Senior Medical Adviser, Drivers Medical Development Group, DVLA, Swansea
• The process of driving assessment in Scotland - Lynne Hutton
• Driving with dementia: to what extent is risk of accident really increased? - Carol Holland
• Relationship between performance on neuropsychological tests and on-road test - Janice Rees, Consultant Clinical Psychologist, Older Adult Mental Health Team for Caerphilly Borough, Gwent
• Driving and Dementia: Developing a Memory Clinic Protocol - Jennifer Borthwick
• Countertransference, Driving and Dementia - Sandy McAfee and Claire Atkins
• News for members - DCM update; PSIGE Flyer; Depression Care Pathway; Personality disorder conference; Flyer 2
• Geographical Group Convenors List
• PSIGE Committee Contact Details

PSIGE Newsletter :: Contents of January 2007 Edition :: Number 97

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• Guest Editorial - Louisa J. Shirley & Ian A. James
• Letter from the Editor - Romola Bucks
• Letter from the Chair - Steve Boddington
• Politics, money, death and dying - Tim Prescott
• Meditation is everywhere - Neil Sabin
• Promoting attitude change: Staff training programme on continence care - Ian A. James, Petra Carlsson-Mitchell, Jenny Ellingford & Lorna Mackenzie
• Staffs' perceptions of alcohol misuse in older people - Malcolm Stephenson, Fiona Fraser & Kristina Askew
• Cure or contain? Attachment theory as a baseline model to understand resistance to success - or Why people don't want to get better - Louisa J. Shirley
• Driving with dementia: In need of an A-Z - Lynne Patience
• Staff's experiences of fearful situations when caring for people with dementia: Will this interfere with the delivery of person-centred care? - Sylvia Ruttledge & Ian A. James
• Integrating psychological formulations into inpatient services - Sarah Dexter-Smith
• Piecing together a fuller picture of the patient: Can doing a jigsaw help to improve the psychosocial well-being of stroke and rehabilitation patients? - Victoria Carek & DavidWallace
• An investigation of the phenomenon of worry in a clinical sample of older adults, using semi-structured interviews - Gillian Bowie, Ian A. James & Mark H. Freeston
• Emotional experiences and complex visual hallucinations - Catherine Andrews, Daniel Collerton, Urs Mosimann & Rob Dudley
• Members' updates
• Letter to the Editor - Una Holden
• PSIGE Committee 2006/2007
• Geographical Group Convenors as at October 2006

PSIGE Newsletter :: Contents of 2006 Edition :: Number 96

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• AGM Summary - Don Brechin
• Letter from the Editors - Romola Bucks
• Letter from the Chair - Steve Boddington
• Stroke: Experience and adjustment - Ian Kneebone
• Taking a Mood Shapshot: The development of a useful tool to guide multi-disciplinary discussion - DavidWallace & Victoria Carek
• Promoting psycological approaches to fear of falling: Bibliotherapy and staff training in a physical health team - Vicki Parlane & Jessica Read
• The thorny problem of challenging behaviour units - Kate Ross
• Developing concensus for a care pathway for psychological therapy for older adults with affective disorders - Naomi Boycott & Barry Greatorex
• Loneliness and befriending - Nicky Knights, Xanthippe Tzimoula, Hilary Clarke, Amy Bartlett & Georgina Charlesworth
• Gentlemen who lunch : Developing self-help groups for people with early diagnosis of dementia - Kerri Lees
• Terrors of growing old: Dependancy, loneliness and death - Paul Terry
• Contexts for knowing and telling about dementia: A case example - Marion Dixon
• Behavioural and cognitive therapies with older people: A selected bibliography - Ian Kneebone
• Annual Conference reports
• Geographical Group Convenors - Annual reports
• Research prize
• Members' updates ...
• PSIGE Committee 2005/2006
• Geographical Group Convenors as at October 2006

PSIGE Newsletter :: Contents of July 2006 Edition :: Number 95

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• Editorial - P.F. Joyce & Philippa Wilson
• Letter from the Chair - Steve Boddington
• Supporting residential care homes for older adults and improving the quality of life for people with dementia - Elizabeth Drew
• Evaluation of a support group for spouse carers of older people with dementia - Falguni Nathwani
• Eking it out - Kate Anderson
• Contexts of knowing and telling: Reflections on dementia and the concepts of insight, awareness and denial from a social constructionist perspective - Marion Dixon & Liz Curtis
• To Have and Have Not - Mike Bender
• The Wadebridge Memory Bank Group and beyond - Mike Bender
• The development of memory difficulties: A journey into the unknown - Oonagh Koppel
• The day the sky fell in: Reflections on hospital closure - Philippa Wilson & Dickon Millett
• What keeps us going? - SouthWest PSIGE members
• Current initiatives regarding a post-qualification training programme in the Clinical Neuropsycohlogy of older people- Carmel Lum
• PSIGE Committee Member takes centre stage at Awards ceremony
• PSIGE Committee 2005/2006
• Geographical Group Convenors as at September 2005

PSIGE Newsletter :: Contents of April 2006 Edition :: Number 94

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• Editorial - Sinclair Lough & Penny Fooks
• Letter from the Chair - Steve Boddington
• A walk-in psychology service for elderly Cypriot day centre users - Maria Zioga, Simon Gander, Evanthia Lychrou & Vassilis M. Mouratoglou
• Treating challenging behaviour in dementia with psychotropic medication –
  help or hindrance? - Ian Andrew James, Amy Wood-Mitchell & Anna Waterworth
• The past as a metaphor: A clinical note - Stéphane Duckett
• Long lives and learning: The impact of education on the psychological well-being of
  people in the third and fourth age - Bobbie Petford
• A protocol for the assessment of dementia - Andrew Roberts, Louise Bergin & Shonagh Scott
• Charles Twining OB - Bob Woods
• PSIGE Committee 2005/2006
• Geographical Group Convenors as at September 2005

PSIGE Newsletter :: Contents of January 2006 Edition :: Number 93

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• Guest Editorial - Jan R. Oyebode & Caroline Sincock
• Dawn D. Brooker - Jan R. Oyebode
• The 7th International Conference on Grief and Bereavement in Contemporary Society - Jan R. Oyebode
• Principle-based design – a practical approach to changing and improving Health Services - Michael Church
• Developing a psychology service in old age psychiatry - Anne Crawford-Docherty
• Wellness Recovery Action Planning (WRAP) group with older adults at Hillcrest Day Hopspital: A pilot programme - Bernadette Bywater & Christina Hartley
• Psychoeducational support groups for clients with early-stage dementia and their carers - Paul Mason, Georgina Slatter & Caroline Sincock
• The Phoenix Group – living again after a diagnosis of dementia - Linda Randeria & Judith Bond
• Understanding ‘challenging behaviour’ in dementia: Reflections on a series of two-day workshops for formal carers - Anna Fairhurst & Helen Toone
• The Single Assessment Process (SAP): A personal perspective - Nicky Bradbury
• PSIGE Committee 2005/2006
• Geographical Group Convenors as at September 2006

PSIGE Newsletter :: Contents of December 2005 Edition :: Number 92

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• Guest Editorial - Rebekah Proctor
• AGM Summary - Chris Allen
• Letter from the Chair - Steve Boddington
• Seizing hearts and minds: Using e-distance methods for training Clinical Psychologists to work with older people - Lucy V. Clark, Clara O’Shea & Ken Laidlaw
• Predictors of disability in older adults with heart failure - A.D.M. Davies, L. Loftus, D. King, V. Ludgate, E. Rodrigues & B. Stephens
• Facing up to ageing - Jeff Garland
• Working with clients who express prejudices: How best to respond? - Jennifer Crean & Polly Kaiser
• A new look at fear of falling- C.E.Weatherall, E.W. Thornton, A.D.M. Davies, M.A. Siddiqi & L. Poll
• Seated Tai Chi - Chris Wonder
• A psychological intervention to prevent depression and anxiety, and maximise recovery following hip fracture surgery - Yvonne Woodward
• Annual Conference Reports
• New challenges, new possibilities and new solutions: The National Service Framework for Older People - Chris Allen
• The challenges of meeting NSF Standard 1: Rooting out age discrimination - Gavin Newby
• Geographical Group Convenors – Annual Reports
• Letters to the Editor
• PSIGE Committee 2005/2006
• Geographical Group Convenors as at September 2005

PSIGE Newsletter :: Contents of October 2005 Edition :: Number 91

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• Letter from the Editors - Sinclair Lough & Penny Fooks
• Letter from the Chair - Nicky Bradbury
• Returning to driving after a stroke: Development of an assessment process - Jane Barton & Kate Lipka
• Accessing views of client and care satisfaction within a memory clinic service - Victoria Molyneux, Clare Punshon & Jane Nowlan
• Does age influence the perception of age? - Stephane Duckett
• Prevalence of cognitive impairment in medical rehabilitation settings for older people - HelenWain & Ian Kneebone
• An evaluation of a Memory Remediation Group: Do carers benefit? - Alison James & Neil Sabin
• Letters to the Editors
• Book Review - Marina Palomo
• PSIGE Committee 2005/2006
• Geographical Group Convenors as at September 2005
  

PSIGE Newsletter :: Contents of July 2005 Edition :: Number 90

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• Guest Editorial - Ann Marshall
• Letter from the Chair - Nicky Bradbury
• Personality disorders in older people - Liz Young with Dr Laura Bocci
• Investigating the ways that older people cope with dementia: The role of identity - Laura Preston, Romola S. Bucks & Ann Marshall
• A long-term support group for people in the early stages of dementia - Ann Marshall, Romola S. Bucks & Helen Mander
• The Dementia Voice Group Psychotherapy project - Richard Cheston
• Inpatient dementia care: A Sisyphean task? - Paul Whitby
• Diploma in (Applied) Clinical Neuropsychology - Ross Butters-Moule & Felicity Fincham
• Call for Leaflets - Angela Reason
• Baby Competition
• PSIGE Committee 2003/2004
• Geographical Group Convenors as at September 2003

PSIGE Newsletter :: Contents of April 2005 Edition :: Number 89

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• Guest Editorial - Chris Allen
• An Excerpt from 'Saturday' - Ian McEwan
• Using referencing objects with older adults – a brief clinical note - Stéphane Duckett
• The need for psychotherapeutic services for people with Parkinson’s disease - Michael Bender & TonyWainwright
• Talking therapy as a psychological intervention for people with dementia: A literature review - Sophie Heason
• Accepting gifts from clients: When is it appropriate? - Stéphane Duckett
• Annual Conference – Durham, July 2004 – A review - A Spencer
• Geographical Groups Convenors – Annual Reports
• PSIGE Committee 2003-4
• Geographical Groups Convenors as at September 2003

PSIGE Newsletter :: Contents of December 2004 Edition :: Number 88

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• Letter from the Editors
• Letter to the Editors - Claire Bamford
• Letter from the Chair
• Schematic compensation for topographical disorientation - Stéphane Duckett
• Psychological therapy with an older adult with post-traumatic stress disorder - Shonagh Scott
• Brief Strategic Therapy for older adults with anxiety - Michael Church & Sarah Watts
• Absence, loss and misappropriation: A bereavement counsellor’s reflection on some of the themes older people bring to therapy - Bobbie Petford
• The Memory Group: A need-led group for those affected by a diagnosis of early-stage dementia - Victoria Carek
• Annual Conference reports
• A few days in Durham - Daniella Wickett
• Amind full of mindfulness - Georgina Woodruff
• Experiences from the Annual Conference - Kathrin Hicks
• Positive perspectives on ageing – Conference report - Maggie Ellis
• My thoughts from Durham - Mona Lesforis
• My first PSIGE Conference - Rachel Bruce
• AGM Report
• Geographical Groups Convenors – Annual Reports
• PSIGE Committee 2003/2004
• Geographical Groups Convenors

PSIGE Newsletter :: Contents of September 2004 Edition :: Number 87

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• Letter from the Guest Editors
• Consent for research and treatment - Arlene Astell
• Pre-diagnostic counselling with people with memory problems: What can we learn from HIV/GUM services? -
  Caroline M. Williams
• Inspiring the next generation: Using online supportive learning environments to train clinical psycologists to work with older people - Ken Laidlaw & Clara O’Shea
• Trainee clinical psychologists’ attitudes towards adults over the age of 65 and their interest to work with older adults – pre-teaching, post-teaching and post-placement - Charlotte Brodie
• Perceptions of handwriting deterioration in older adults - Susan Baxter
• Dementia Services Development Centre : An audit of clinical psychology referrals and provision for older adults in the Scottish borders - Cyan Harte
• Management of psychological difficulties in later life: A survey of general practitioners - Paula Weeple
• Flexible training arrangements for clinical psychology - Ken Laidlaw and the University of Edinburgh/East of Scotland NHS Course Executive Team