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This well-established textbook is a must-buy for all mental health nursing students and nurses in registered practice. Comprehensive and broad, it explores how mental health nursing has a positive impact on the lives of people with mental health difficulties.
Several features help you get the most out of each chapter and apply theory to practice, including:
• Personal Stories: Provide insight into the experience of mental health difficulties from the perspective of service users and their carers
• Thinking Spaces: Help you reflect on your practice and assess your learning individually and in groups, with further guidance available online
• Recommended Resources: Provide additional materials and support to help extend your learning
New to this edition:
With four brand new chapters plus nine chapters re-written by original authors, key developments in this edition include:
• Physical health care of people with mental health problems
• Care of people who experience trauma
• Promoting mental health and well-being
• Support needed by nurses to provide therapeutic care and to derive satisfaction from their work
• Innovations in mental health practice
‘The newly revised and updated edition has continued to offer an intelligent and readable text that offers a great deal to both students and those undertaking continuous professional development … This edition continues to offer “thinking spaces” that encourage the reader to reflect upon and consider what they have learned in a most practical way. I wholeheartedly recommend this book and continue to be impressed with its high standards of presentation and scholarship’.
Emeritus Professor Tony Butterworth CBE, Chair, Foundation of Nursing Studies, Vice Chair RCN Foundation, UK
‘It is a pleasure to open this book and to see the comprehensive range of information and evidence based guidance in relation to effective practice in nursing. Even If you only buy one professional book this year make it this one!’
Baroness Watkins of Tavistock; Crossbench Peer, PhD and RN (Adult and Mental Health), UK
‘The importance of the teaching within this book cannot be underestimated … The book is written by credible and respected practitioners and will support mental health nurses to practice from the best evidence available today working from and with the human condition’.
Beverley Murphy, Director of Nursing, South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust
Part I: Foundations
Chapter 1: Mental Health
Chapter 2: Mental Disorders
Chapter 3: Mental Health Nursing: An Art & Science
Chapter 4: Recovery, Rights and Social Inclusion
Part II: Contexts
Chapter 5: The Social Policy Context of Mental Health Care
Chapter 6: The Service Context and Organisation of MHC
Chapter 7: Mental Health and the Law
Chapter 8: The Ethics of Mental Health Nursing
Part III: Core Procedures
Chapter 9: Therapeutic Relationships and Engaging People
Chapter 10: Creating a Therapeutic Environment
Chapter 11: Assessment
Chapter 12: Care Planning
Chapter 13: Admissions and Discharge Planning
Chapter 14: Assessing and Managing Suicide and Self-harm
Chapter 15: Assessing and Managing Aggression and Violence
Part IV: Client Groups
Chapter 16: Children and Adolescents
Chapter 17: Older People with Functional Mental Health Problems
Chapter 18: Older People with Dementia
Chapter 19: The Person Experiencing Psychosis
Chapter 20: The Person with Depression
Chapter 21: The Person with a Bi-Polar Disorder
Chapter 22: The Person with an Anxiety Disorder
Chapter 23: The Person Who Experiences Distress, Trauma & PTSD
Chapter 24: The Person with an Eating Disorder
Chapter 25: The Person with Dual Diagnosis
Chapter 26: The Person with a Personality Disorder
Chapter 27: Forensic Mental Healthcare
Part V: Interventions
Chapter 28: Self-Management
Chapter 29: Counselling Approaches
Chapter 30: CBT
Chapter 31: Solution Focused Approaches
Chapter 32: Motivational Approaches
Chapter 33: Working with Groups
Chapter 34: Working with Families and Carers
Chapter 35: Psychopharmacology
Chapter 36: Mental Health Medication in Practice
Chapter 37: Concordance, Adherence & Compliance
Chapter 38: Promoting Mental Health
Chapter 39: Promoting Physical Health
Part VI: Professional Practice
Chapter 40: Professional Practice
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