2nd Edition

Introducing Mental Health Nursing A service user-oriented approach

By Richard Lakeman Copyright 2013
432 Pages
by Routledge

432 Pages
by Routledge

432 Pages
by Routledge

Introducing Mental Health Nursing offers a systematic overview of both the science and the art of caring for people experiencing mental health problems. It addresses the attitudes, knowledge and skills required to provide care for service users across all health-care settings, from specialist mental health services to general hospitals and community care. The authors place the service user at... Read more
Figures and tables

Acknowledgements

Preface


PART I BACKGROUND AND CONTEXT FOR MENTAL HEALTH NURSING

1. Introduction

2. Conceptual frameworks guiding mental health nursing

3. Recovery

4. Mental health practice settings

5. Legal, ethical and professional issues in mental health nursing

PART II DEFINING AND UNDERSTANDING MENTAL HEALTH PROBLEMS

6. Diagnosing mental illness

7. Symptomatology in mental health

8. Sociological understandings of mental health and Indigenous social and emotional well-being

PART III TREATING MENTAL ILLNESS

9. Physical treatments in mental health care

10. Treatments in mental health: complementary and other therapies

PART IV MENTAL HEALTH NURSING ROLES AND PRACTICE

11. Mental health and illness assessment

12. Nursing care in mental health

13. Treatments in mental health: psychotherapy

14. Cultural safety

15. A safe environment

16. Mental health issues across the health care sector

Index

Biography

Dr Brenda Happell is Professor (Engaged Research Chair) of Mental Health Nursing, Director of the Institute for Health & Social Science Research, and Director of the Centre for Mental Health Nursing Innovation at Central Queensland University. She is the Editor of the International Journal of Mental Health Nursing and Associate Editor of Issues in Mental Health Nursing.

Dr Leanne Cowin is Head of Program for the Master of Nursing course in the School of Nursing & Midwifery at the University of Western Sydney.

Cath Roper is a Consumer Academic at the Centre for Psychiatric Nursing at the University of Melbourne.

Dr Richard Lakeman is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Health & Human Sciences at Southern Cross University.

Dr Leonie Cox is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Nursing, Queensland University of Technology.