Category: Of interest from media
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Patient Confidentiality: College President Dr William Flannery speaks with the Irish Times
College President Dr William Flannery was featured in an Irish Times article entitled ‘Is your conversation with your therapist truly confidential?’ Excerpts from the article are included below. It follows a recent RTÉ Prime Time Investigates which alleged that the private information of autistic children and their families was disclosed without their knowledge or consent. The…
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Sunday Independent: ‘The problem with long-term lockdowns is people start ignoring them’
Consultant Psychiatrist Dr Miriam Kennedy speaks with the Irish Independent about why she is ‘not remotely surprised people are breaking restrictions’. Read highlights featuring Dr Kennedy below and read the article in full on the Irish Independent website here. Given emerging data on the increase of visits to households since the beginning of February, Dr…
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RCPsych Celebrates Women in Psychiatry Throughout March
In marking International Women’s Day, the Royal College of Psychiatrists (RCPsych), have set out to highlight diverse experiences of women psychiatrists in their ’25 Women’ project thoughout the month of March. Every Monday, RCPsych will be publishing five stories of women in psychiatry, including an upcoming piece by Irish Psychiatrist, Dr Eimer Philbin-Bowman which we…
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An Update from the National Clinical Programme for Eating Disorders
Clinical Lead for the HSE National Clinical Programme for Eating Disorders, Dr Michelle Clifford, provides an update on the national roll-out of programme, and the future of eating disorder care in Ireland. This Eating Disorders Awareness Week, I am delighted to update you on the progress of the National Clinical Programme for Eating Disorders (NCPED).…
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Parent Perspective: Supporting our daughter with Anorexia Nervosa during the Covid 19 Pandemic
As part of a series marking Eating Disorder Awareness Week 2021, one parent kindly shares their experience of supporting their daughter who was diagnosed with Anorexia Nervosa at the outset of the COVID-19 pandemic. When the lockdown started in March 2020 we had just begun to come to terms with a diagnosis of Anorexia Nervosa…
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Binge Eating Disorder: Eating Disorders Awareness Week 2021
Binge Eating Disorder (BED) is the theme for this year’s Eating Disorder Awareness Week, taking place from the 1st to the 7th of March. Dr Caroline Maher, Co-Chair of the College Special Interest Group on Eating Disorders, provides some key information on the diagnosis and treatment of what is the most common eating disorder. …
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Irish Times: Hidden epidemic of gambling addiction
College President Dr William Flannery writes to the Irish Times to welcome newly proposed legislation that will look to ban gambling advertisement in sports, and to further discuss the need to tackle our ‘hidden epidemic of gambling addiction in Ireland’. Read the letter in full below or on the Irish Times website here. Sir,…
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Irish Times: Prisons and mentally ill people – time for an inquiry
Calls for enquiry into historical coercive confinement in psychiatric institutions need to extend to our current system, one that stigmatises and ultimately punishes those with severe mental illness. Senior Clinical Lecturer in Forensic Psychiatry Dr Conor O’Neill, Clinical Lecturer in Forensic Psychiatry Dr Damian Smith and Clinical Professor of Forensic Psychiatry Harry Kennedy, all of…
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Irish Independent: ‘Mental health tsunami’ as children struggle with lockdowns
Professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at UCD School of Medicine Fiona McNicholas speaks with the Irish Independent about the surge in families of young people with mental health problems seeking psychiatric help. Read the excerpt featuring Professor McNicholas from the Irish Independent article below. Read the article in full here. The article discusses predictions…
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Irish Examiner: Mind your head: experts talk about looking after your mental health
Consultant Liaison Psychiatrist Dr Eric Kelleher speaks to the Irish Examiner about the increased presentations of depression and anxiety during COVID-19, and what people can do in their daily lives to cope with the unprecedented stress of the pandemic. This article features findings from the College survey of consultant psychiatrists from June 2020. Read report…