Full Description
Do you want to know how to help people with mental health problems?
This book introduces you to the core skills and essential knowledge you need to deliver high-quality care.
Mental Health Nursing is a practical, values- and evidence-based resource which will guide and support you through your pre-registration mental health nursing programme and into your own practice.
Dedicated chapters focus on the major mental health problems, and are clearly structured so that you can quickly and easily identify what you want learn about helping people with, for example, depression, anxiety, psychosis, or acute mental health problems.
The most up-to-date theories, as well as mental health policies and law from all four countries of the UK, are explained accessibly by experienced lecturers and nurse practitioners who show you through real-life case scenarios how you can use your newly-acquired knowledge and skills to deliver high-quality care yourself. You will also be encouraged - through regular reflection and discussion points - to see things with a critical eye and to engage in and drive on the debates that make mental health nursing such an exciting field to be studying and working in.
Set within a framework which emphasises and makes clear the core skills, values and knowledge-base you need to become capable mental health nurse, you will find this book a vital companion as you progress through your studies and onto helping people confidently in everyday life.
Contents
PART ONE: THEORY AND CONTEXT IN MENTAL-HEALTH NURSING
Theoretical Perspectives in Mental-Health Nursing - Steven Pryjmachuk
The Capable Mental-Health Nurse - Steven Pryjmachuk
New Ways of Working in Mental-Health - Steven Pryjmachuk
PART TWO: HELPING PEOPLE WITH MENTAL-HEALTH PROBLEMS
Helping People Recover from Depression - Jane Briddon and Clare Baguley with Lucy Rolfe
Helping People Recover from Anxiety - Clare Baguley and Jane Briddon with Joanne Bramley
Helping People Recover from Psychosis - Tim Bradshaw and Hilary Mairs
Helping People Who Have Acute Mental-Health Problems - Sara Munro and John Baker
Helping Older People with Mental-Health Problems - Simon Burrow
Helping Children with Mental-Health Problems - Noreen Ryan and Steven Pryjmachuk
Helping Young People with Mental-Health Difficulties - Sarah Kendal and Steven Pryjmachuk
Helping People Who Misuse Substances - Ian Wilson
Helping People with Mental-Health Problems Who Come into Contact with the Criminal Justice System - John Baker, Michael Coffey and Mike Doyle
