Fundamentals of mental health nursing [electronic resource] : an essential guide for nursing and healthcare students.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Fundamentals of mental health nursing : an essential guide for nursing and healthcare students -- Contents -- Preface -- List of Contributors -- About the Companion Website -- Part 1: Fundamentals of Mental Health Nursing -- Chapter 1: What is mental health? -- Chapter 2: The policy context of mental health nursing in the UK -- Chapter 3: Models and values of mental health nursing practice -- Chapter 4: Legal and ethical frameworks for mental health nursing practice -- Chapter 5: Facilitating evidence based practice -- Chapter 6: Co-production: facilitating recovery with service users -- Chapter 7: Communication and interpersonal skills 1: an introduction -- Part 2: Mental Health Problems and Therapeutic Interventions -- Chapter 8: Commonly occurring mental health problems -- Chapter 9: Serious mental health problems -- Chapter 10: Organic mental health problems -- Chapter 11: People with learning disabilities and mental health -- Chapter 12: Substance misuse -- Chapter 13: Eating disorders -- Chapter 14: Personality disorder -- Chapter 15: Communication and interpersonal skills 2: emotional engagement -- Chapter 16: Cognitive behavioural therapy -- Chapter 17: Psychodynamic and other talking therapies -- Chapter 18: Basics of psychopharmacology -- Chapter 19: Assessment and therapeutic management of risk -- Chapter 20: Working with self-harm and suicide -- Chapter 21: Mental health promotion -- Part 3: Mental Health Nursing and the Lifespan -- Chapter 22: Mental health and children, adolescents and younger people -- Chapter 23: Mental health and adults -- Chapter 24: Mental health in later life -- Part 4: Recovery in the Context of Mental Health Services -- Chapter 25: Applying recovery based principles in practice -- Chapter 26: Community based mental health services in action -- Chapter 27: In-patient services -- Chapter 28: Working with family and friends -- Chapter 29: Embracing mental health and physical healthcare -- Chapter 30: Clinical supervision for the new supervisee -- Answers -- Index -- EULA.

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Fundamentals of Mental Health Nursing is an accessible evidence-based introduction to the role of the mental health nurse. This comprehensive overview explores concepts of mental health and distress, ethics and accountability, key nursing models to be aware of, and the prevalence, predisposing factors and features of the most commonly occurring mental health problems. KEY FEATURES: ● Places mental health conditions and interventions within a wider holistic context ● Situates recovery at the centre of mental health nursing practice ● Links key concepts to mental health across the lifespan ● Contains learning outcomes in each chapter and includes vignettes, activities and reflective exercises to root concepts in real life practice Information is placed in a practice context from the outset, making this an essential guide to both the theory and the practice of mental health nursing. It is ideal for students on courses relating to mental health care, as well as for registered nurses and health care practitioners looking to revise their knowledge of key concepts.

Mode of access: World Wide Web.