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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


Contents:

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


PRODUCT DETAILS

ISBN-13: 9780335226900
Publisher: McGraw-Hill (Open University Press)
Publication date: June, 2018
Pages: None
Dimensions: 185.00 x 245.00 x 40.00
Weight: 1390g
Availability: Available
Subcategories: Nursing

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