Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing : The Craft of Caring

Omtale

Placing service users and their recovery at the centre of care, this new edition provides a comprehensive and authoritative overview of mental health nursing. Its holistic approach supports nursing students as they develop the tools and understanding required to work in this complex area. With new chapters on topics such as digital health, psychological wellbeing for nurses, trauma-informed care, health inequalities and the social model of care, along with a number of entirely rewritten chapters, this fully updated book includes sections looking 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 today: highlighting emerging and future trends including the political landscape, physical health and health promotion, and technological advances. Accessible and evidence-based, this core textbook integrates service user perspectives throughout and includes student-friendly features such as learning outcomes, key points summaries, reflection points, case studies and further reading sections. It is an essential resource for all mental health nursing students, as well as an invaluable reference for practising nurses.