Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing

Phil Barker PhD RN FRCN was the UK's first Professor of Psychiatric Nursing Practice at the University of Newcastle, UK, and is presently Visiting Professor at Trinity College Dublin, Ireland, and a Director of Clan Unity, the International Mental Health Recovery Agency.

Section 1: THE NEED FOR NURSING
1: Nursing and Mental health Care- Phil Barker
2: The care and confinement of the mentally ill- Liam Clarke
3: Evidence based practice in mental health care- Hugh McKenna
4: The craft of psychiatric-mental health nursing practice-Peter Wilkin
5: Managing developments in the craft of care- Angela Simpson
6: The concept of recovery- Irene Whitehill
7: Recovery and reclamation- Anne Helm
Section 2: ASSESSMENT IN PRACTICE
8: Assessment: the foundation of practice- Phil Barker
9: Assessment methods- Phil Barker
10: Interviewing as craft- Phil Barker
11: Developing collaborative assessment- Tom Keen and Janis Keen
12: The context of assessment: families- Chris Stevenson
13: The assessment of feelings, thoughts and beliefs- Mark Philbin
Section 3: THE STRUCTURE OF CARE
14: Classification and nursing- Shaun Parsons
15: The value of nursing diagnosis- Diane Ellis
16: Collaborating with patients & their families in the development of care- Tom Keen and Mandy Haddock
Section 4: SOME MODELS OF THERAPEUTIC PRACTICE
17: Developing therapeutic one-to-one relationships- Bill Reynolds
18: Developing empathy- Bill Reynolds
19: Groupwork with children and adolescents- Sue Croom
20: Psychodynamic approaches with individuals- Brendan Murphy
21: Psychodynamic approaches to working in groups- Phil Luffman
22: Cognitive behavioural approaches- Paul French
23: Using solution focused approaches- Denise C Webster and Kay Vaughn
24: Using counselling approaches- Phil Burnard
25: Bereavement and grief counselling- Clare Hopkins
Section 5: SPECIFIC NEEDS FOR NURSING
26: The person who experiences anxiety- Eimear Muir-Cochrane
27: The person who experiences depression- Ian Beech
28: The person who is suicidal- Ruth Gallop and Elaine Stamina
29: The person who self-harms- Ruth Gallop and Tracey Tully
30: The person who hears disturbing voices- Cheryl Forchuk & Elsabeth Jensen
31: The person who experiences disturbing beliefs- Elsabeth Jensen and Cheryl Forchuk
32: The person with schizophrenia- Tom Keen
33: The person who is aggressive or violent- Eimear Muir-Cochrane
34: The person with a diagnosis of manic depression- Ian Beech
35: The person with a diagnosis of borderline personality disorder
Shaun Parsons
36: The person who uses substances - David Cooper
37: The person who is paranoid or suspicious- Denis Ryan
38: The person who has been sexually abused- Mike Smith
39: The person with an eating disorder- Elaine Fletcher and Jane Noble
40: The person who is homeless- Paul Veitch and Jon Wigmore
41: The person with dementia- Trevor Adams
Section 6: THE ORGANISATION OF CARE
42: Acute inpatient care- Peter Dodds and Angela Simpson
43: Community Mental health Care - Denis Ryan
44: Crisis assessment and intervention- Clare Hopkins
45: Assertive outreach - Mike Smith and Mervyn Morris
46: Family support- Chris Stevenson
47: Specialist services for homeless people- Jon Wigmore and Paul Veitch
48: Services for people requiring more secure forms of care- Colin Holmes
49: The Pyschiatric intensive care unit-Cheryl Waters and Andrew Cashin
50: Early intervention in psychosis- Paul French
Section 7: SOME STANDARDISED PROCESS OF NURSING PRACTICE
51: Admission to a psychiatric unit- Angela Simpson and Jerome Wright
52: Assessing risk of suicide and self harm- John Cutcliffe
53: Engagement and observation of people at risk- John Cutcliffe
54: Record keeping- Martin Ward
55: Discharge planning- Martin Ward
56: The nurse’s role in the administration of ECT- Joy Bray
57: Mental Health Promotion- Judy Boxer
58: Medication in nursing practice: The psychiatric nurse & prescribing authority- Nancy M Daniels and Gail B Williams
Section 8: LEGAL, ETHICAL AND MORAL ISSUES
59: Mental health legislation- international perspective- Shaun Parson
60: Ethical issues in psychiatric and mental health nursing - Richard Lakeman
61: Sexuality and gender- Alec Grant
62: Freedom and consent- Alec Grant
63: Providing culturally appropriate care- Tony O’Brien & Lin Morrison-Ngatai
Section 9: THE DEVELOPMENT OF MENTAL HEALTH NURSING
64: Clinical Supervision- Peter Wilkin
65: The possibility of genuine mental health nursing- Gary Rolfe & Lyn Gardner
66: Nurse consumer collaboration – Go with the Flo!- Cindy Stuhlmiller
67: Building practice from research- Mark Fenton
Section 10:THE FUTURE OF PSYCHIATRIC –MENTAL HEALTH NURSING IN CONTEXT
68: The European Context- Seamus Cowman
69: The Japanese Context: the expanding role of human communication-
Mami Kayama
70: The United States Context- Shirley Smoyak
71: The Australian and New Zealand Context: prospects for mental health nursing- Jon Chesterson and Michael Hazelton
Section 10 REFLECTION
72: The Virtue of caring- Phil Barker