ABSTRACT

This new edition of a bestselling, evidence-based textbook provides a comprehensive overview of psychiatric and mental health nursing. Keeping service users and their recovery at the centre of care, the holistic approach will help nurses to gain the tools and understanding required to work in this complex area.

Extensively updated for this new edition, the text looks at:

  • Aspects of mental health nursing: covering topics such as ethics, developing therapeutic relationships and supervision.
  • The foundations of mental health nursing: discussing diagnosis, assessment and risk.
  • Caring for those experiencing mental health distress: looking at wide range of troubles including anxiety, bipolar disorder, eating disorders and issues around sexuality and gender.
  • Care planning and approaches to therapeutic practice: exploring ideas, pathways and treatments such as recovery, CBT, psychodynamic therapies and psychopharmacology.
  • Services and support for those with mental health distress: covering topics such as collaborative work, involvement of service users and their families and carers, and a range of different mental healthcare settings.
  • Mental health nursing in the twenty-first century: highlighting emerging and future trends including the political landscape, physical health and health promotion, and technological advances.

This accessible and comprehensive textbook integrates service user perspectives throughout and includes student-friendly features such as learning outcomes, key points summaries, reflection points and further reading sections. It is an essential resource for all mental health nursing students, as well as an invaluable reference for practising nurses.

section 1|2 pages

Aspects of mental health nursing

chapter 1|16 pages

The nature of mental health nursing

chapter 7|12 pages

Building practice from research

chapter 10|12 pages

Clinical supervision

chapter 11|8 pages

Critical reflection

section 2|2 pages

The foundations of mental health nursing

chapter 14|10 pages

The nature and types of assessment

chapter 18|10 pages

Freedom and consent

section 3|2 pages

Caring for those experiencing mental health distress

chapter 21|10 pages

The person who experiences depression

chapter 22|14 pages

The person who self-harms

chapter 32|12 pages

Sexuality and gender

chapter 33|12 pages

The person with dementia

section 4|2 pages

Care planning and approaches to therapeutic practice

chapter 37|10 pages

Using the care programme approach

chapter 39|10 pages

Motivational interviewing

chapter 40|12 pages

Cognitive behaviour therapy (CBT)

chapter 44|10 pages

Mindfulness

chapter 46|9 pages

Crisis assessment and resolution

section 5|2 pages

Services and support for those with mental health distress

chapter 56|11 pages

Assertive outreach

chapter 61|10 pages

Bereavement and grief counselling

section 6|2 pages

Opportunities and challenges for mental health nursing in the twenty-first century