Forgiveness training can be delivered effectively to offenders with mental disorders in clinical settings. Its range of benefits, including reduction I in anger as well as improved capacity to forgive, suggest that it may have longer term implications for personal safety and reintegration into mainstream societal settings. Copyright © 2016 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

This article introduces the mental health treatment, Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT) as a dynamic and challenging therapy well suited to a critical social work perspective. From the authors’ experience of providing DBT in a tertiary health setting over the past three years, the connections between DBT and social work will be espoused with the central tenet being the demonstration that psychiatric social workers are highly skilled once trained in this modality

Society for Social Medicine pattern of the disease in Southampton, which shows a peak of frequency in September-October, does not correspond with the pattern of isolation of haemolytic streptococci from throat swabs. These findings suggest that streptococcal infection is not a factor in the aetiology of most cases of the disease. Data from four other areas of Britain show a varying seasonal pattern, but a trough in frequency in July-August is a constant finding. It has been suggested that the disease may result from hypersensitivity to organisms other than haemolytic streptococci which cause upper respiratory tract infection. Of the Southampton patients 63 % gave a history of upper respiratory infection in the month preceding admission compared with 50% of a control group. The geographical distribution of the disease within the city showed only a slight correlation between incidence and overcrowding. This finding does not support the hypothesis that a contagious disorder such as respiratory infection is important in the aetiology of the disease.