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Dystonia: Care Staff Guide to Muscle Spasms and Treatment
A practical guide for health and social care staff on dystonia: what it is, what sets it off, how it is treated and how to support someone day to day.
Paranoia and Persecutory Delusions: A Care Staff Guide
What paranoia is, how suspicious thoughts differ from justified concerns and delusions, what causes and treats them, and how care staff can respond calmly and safely.
Antisocial Personality Disorder: A Care Staff Guide to NICE CG77
What NICE CG77 says about engaging people with antisocial personality disorder, assessing risk, treating comorbid conditions and working with other agencies, and how staff can avoid stigma.
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Agoraphobia: A Care Staff Guide to Fear of Leaving Safe Places
What agoraphobia is, how it relates to panic disorder, how it shows up in everyday care, and how the NHS stepped approach of self-help, guided self-help, CBT and medicine works.
Restless Legs Syndrome: A Care Staff Guide to Recognition and Support
How to recognise restless legs syndrome, why iron levels and medicines matter, which simple measures help at night, and what care staff should know about treatment risks.
Multiple System Atrophy (MSA): A Care Staff Guide
What multiple system atrophy is, how it differs from Parkinson's disease, the autonomic and movement symptoms, and practical steps care staff can take to reduce falls and infection risk.
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Gambling-Related Harms: A Care Staff Guide to NICE NG248
How care staff can identify gambling-related harms, ask the right questions, respond to suicide risk, and signpost people and families to treatment under NICE NG248.
Trigeminal Neuralgia: A Care Staff Guide to Severe Facial Pain
What trigeminal neuralgia feels like, what sets off attacks, how it is treated with carbamazepine or surgery, and how care staff can support eating, hygiene and emotional wellbeing.
Schizoaffective Disorder: A Care Staff Guide
What schizoaffective disorder is, how psychosis and mood symptoms combine, how it is diagnosed and treated, and how care staff can support people and their families.
Health Anxiety: A Care Staff Guide to Recognising and Responding
What health anxiety looks like, how it differs from genuine illness, and how care staff can respond to repeated worries without dismissing symptoms or fuelling reassurance-seeking.
Social Anxiety Disorder: A Care Staff Guide to NICE CG159
How care staff can recognise social anxiety disorder, what NICE CG159 recommends for assessment and treatment, and practical ways to make appointments and everyday contact easier.
Prolonged Grief: A Care Staff Guide to Complicated Grief
How care staff can tell normal grief from prolonged or complicated grief, recognise risk factors and warning signs, and signpost people to the right support.
Meningitis and Meningococcal Septicaemia: A Care Staff Guide
A practical guide to spotting meningitis and meningococcal septicaemia in care settings, including the glass test, rash on dark skin, when to call 999 and what happens next.