Advanced Practice in Mental Health Nursing

Part 1: The context of practice ; Chapter 1: Recovery and Mental Health Nursing (Clinton & Nelson), (conceptualisation of practice, social/historical context from an international perspective drawing on literature from the four countries of the contribution authors and introducing the themnes assressed in the text); Chapter 2: The Changing Role of the Consumer (Jewell), (socio/political perspectives that address issues of consumer status, power and influences on the mental health sectors of the four countries of the contributing authors); Chapter 3: Mental Health Workers (Gournay), (social/service/professional and generic developments in the mental health workforce and their implications for the distinctiveness of mental health nursing practice in rapidly changing environments); Chapter 4: Mental Health Nursing within a Legal Framework (Minto); Part 2: Appraches to practice Chapter 5: Social Skill Training (Stein), (assumptions and methodologies that empower consumers of mental health services and destigmatize people with a mental illness); Chapter 6: Community Care (Pyke), (social aspects of the case management role with particular attention to the development and use of cummunity resources); Chapter 7: The Therapeutic Alliance (Speedy), (interpersonal aspects of the nurse-client relationship from the perspective of the values and professional skills of mental health nurses drawing on exemplars of international best practice); Part 3: Clinical Issues Chapter 8: Depresion - A Need for Nursing (Barker); (illustration of moral conceptions of the therapeutic role of mental health nurses demonstrated through an in-depth analysis of the needs of people with depression); Chapter 9: Gerontology - A Case of Neglect (Reed/Clarke), (frank discussion of the limitations on nursing practice and the strategies mental health nurses have developed to address areas of unmet need); Chapter 10: Personality Disorder - A Case of Avoidance (Gallop), (examination of mental health nursing practice with perhaps the most challenging groups of clients, those with a personalithy disorder, and the methods mental health nurses are developing to overcomne the avoidance many nurses use to distance themselves from this client group); Chapter 11: Forensic Mental Health Nursing - An increasingly important speciality (Morrison), (consideration of the response of mental health sectors to the needs of forensic client and the role of mental health nurses); Chapter 12: Child and Adolescence - A True Speciality? (Evans), (close examination of the issue of specialization in mental health nursing practice with these clients. Consideration of practice with child and adolescent clients).