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The First UK Edition of the popular core text explores the full mental health nursing care continuum within a flexible, person-centred framework. It emphasises skilled engagement, collaborative assessment and care planning, effective therapeutic communication and compassionate, evidence-based interventions. Its reader-friendly format and concise, focused chapters promote self-awareness, effective communication, collaboration and an emphasis on strengths and resources.
Mental Health Nursing First UK Edition is essential reading for pre-registration students at diploma and degree level, on both adult and specialist mental health nursing courses, and as a resource for post-registration clinicians.
Features of the UK Edition:
- Focus on the key therapeutic role of the nurse within teams
- Self-Awareness features encourage readers to reflect on themselves, their behaviour, emotions and attitudes as a way to foster both personal and professional development
- Up-to-date policy and clinical guidelines inform the text throughout
- Discussions of mental disorders contextualized for the UK
- Pharmacological approaches presented in context
- Exploration of nursing applications of psychotherapeutic approaches
- Group discussion features encourage groupwork
- Critical Thinking Questions stimulate readers’ thinking about current dilemmas and issues in mental health
- Client/Family Health Promotion boxes provide information to strengthen nurses’ roles as educators
- Cultural Considerations sections highlight increasing diversity and the need for cultural competence
- Therapeutic dialogues give specific examples of nurse0client interaction to promote therapeutic communication skills
- Clinical Vignettes ‘paint a picture’ to aid understanding
- Drug Alerts highlight essential risks and special features of psychotropic drugs
