The Art and Science of Mental Health Nursing: Principles and Practice

PART I: Foundations 
 
1 Mental Health  

2 Mental Disorders  

3 Mental Health Nursing: An Art & Science  

4 Recovery and Social Inclusion  

PART II: Contexts  

5 The Social Policy Context of Mental Health Care  

6 The Service Context and Organisation of MHC  
 
7 Mental Health and the Law  

8 The Ethics of Mental Health Nursing  
 
 
PART III: Core Procedures
  
9 Therapeutic Relationships and Engaging People  

10 Creating a therapeutic environment  
 
11 Assessment  

12 Care Planning  

13 Admissions and Discharge Planning  

14 Assessing and Managing Suicide and Self-harm  
 
15 Assessing and Managing Aggression and Violence  
   
 PART IV: Client Groups
  
16 Children and Adolescents  

17 Older people with functional mental health problems  

18 Older people with dementia  
 
19 The Person Experiencing Psychosis  

20 The Person with Depression  

21 The Person with a Bi-Polar Disorder  

22 The Person with an Anxiety Disorder  

23 The Person Who Experiences Distress, Trauma & PTSD  

24 The Person with an Eating Disorder  

25 The Person with Dual Diagnosis  

26 The Person with a Personality Disorder  

27 Forensic Mental Healthcare  
 
PART V: Interventions

28  Self-Management      

29 Counselling Approaches  
 
30 CBT  

31 Solution Focused Approaches  

32 Motivational Approaches  

33 Working with Groups  

34 Working with Families and Carers  

35 Psychopharmacology  

36 Mental Health Medication in Practice  

37 Concordance, adherence & Compliance

38  Promoting Mental Health       

39 Promoting Physical Health 

PART VI: Professional Practice
  
40 Professional Practice   

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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