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Kaleidoscope - Volume 218 , Issue 1 (2020)
Journal Article

Predicting future suicide attempts is a challenging area for psychiatrists. Even well-established individual risk factors tend to be quite weak predictors, and most assessment tools have been shown to add little or no value to a comprehensive clinica... Read More about Kaleidoscope - Volume 218 , Issue 1.

Kaleidoscope - Volume 217 , Issue 6 (2020)
Journal Article

Individuals with dementia seek intimacy and companionship just like everyone else, but in the face of cognitive decline there are inevitably concerns about their vulnerability. It is an issue often perceived through the prism of safeguarding against... Read More about Kaleidoscope - Volume 217 , Issue 6.

Kaleidoscope - Volume 217 , Issue 5 (2020)
Journal Article

Among the criticisms of diagnostic systems is ‘diagnostic inflation’: with time criteria relax, the number of conditions expands and everything is pathologised. It is a common refrain, with the release of DSM-5 attracting particular notoriety. But, i... Read More about Kaleidoscope - Volume 217 , Issue 5.

Kaleidoscope - Volume 217 , Issue 4 (2020)
Journal Article

As part of the core content of this monthly journal, Kaleidoscope highlights and discusses the most interesting recent mental health research

Kaleidoscope Live! (2020)
Digital Artefact

Three psychiatrists and a psychologist walk into a pub (or, in these unprecedented times, a Zoom meeting)….to talk science! Kaleidoscope Live takes you behind the scenes of the monthly British Journal of Psychiatry column of the same name. It’s four... Read More about Kaleidoscope Live!.

Kaleidoscope - Volume 217 , Issue 3 (2020)
Journal Article

We're all familiar with the mantra that while self-harm is common, suicide is ‘rare’ and prediction ‘difficult’. Can we at least have confidence in suicide-prevention interventions? A meta-analysis examined subsequent suicide attempts following a bri... Read More about Kaleidoscope - Volume 217 , Issue 3.

Kaleidoscope - Volume 217 , Issue 2 (2020)
Journal Article

Perceptions 1. #BlackLivesMatter has reinforced the depth of societal inequities; minority ethnic status is linked with psychosis, but disentangling discrimination from other factors is challenging. Bardol et al included 17 studies (n = 33 211) in th... Read More about Kaleidoscope - Volume 217 , Issue 2.