Essentials of Mental Health Nursing

Emerita Professor Karen Wright’s diverse range of clinical experiences span over a period of more than 40 years. She has led and developed services, as well as nursing and psychotherapy curricula. She is a qualified nurse (both Adult and Mental Health registrations), academic and practising psychotherapist, and is an accredited member of the British Association of Cognitive Behavioural Psychotherapists. Karen is also chair of an NHS Local Research Ethics Committee  and has recently retired from the University of Central Lancashire where she was Professor of Nursing and has retained an active Emeritus role.   Mick McKeown is Professor of Democratic Mental Health, School of Nursing at the University of Central Lancashire and trade union activist with Unison. He supports service user and carer involvement at the university and union strategising on nursing. He has taken a lead in making the case for union organising to extend to alliance formation with service users/survivors.

Part A: Context of Mental Health
Chapter 1: The Context and Nature of Mental Health Care in the 21st Century - Mick McKeown, Karen M. Wright, Jonathan Gadsby and Dan Warrender
Chapter 2: Overview of Mental Health Nurse Education and Training - Steven Pryjmachuk
Chapter 3: Working with Other Professionals - Simon Fletcher and Scott Reeves
Chapter 4: Meaningful Service User Involvement - Julia Terry and Janet Garner
Chapter 5: Working With Families and Carers - Simon Hall And Mandy Reed
Chapter 6: Championing Equalities and Addressing Vulnerability in Mental Health Care - Peggy Mulongo and John Wainwright
Chapter 7: Organisations and Settings for Mental Health Care - Joe Forster, Sarah Loughran, Rob MacDonald and Ian Callaghan
Chapter 8: The Policy Context for Contemporary Mental Health Care - Ben Hannigan, Bethan Edwards, Ian Hulatt and Alan Meudell
Chapter 9: Madness and the Law - Bob Sapey
Chapter 10: Independent Advocacy in Mental Health Care - Julie Ridley, Stephanie de la Haye, June Sadd, Karen Newbigging and Karen Machin
Chapter 11: The Ethical Mental Health Nurse - Karen M. Wright and Alan Armstrong
Part B: Key concepts and Debates
Chapter 12: Sociological Understandings of Mental Health - David Pilgrim and Mick McKeown
Chapter 13: Critical Psychological Ideas and Practices - Richard Bentall and Mick McKeown
Chapter 14: Philosophical Understanding of Mental Health - Tim Thornton
Chapter 15: A Service User Perspective - Jane Fraser
Chapter 16: Psychiatric Understandings of Mental Health - Duncan Double
Chapter 17: Spiritual Care: Understanding Service Users, Understanding Ourselves - Julian Raffay and Don Bryant
Chapter 18: Public Mental Health: Prevention and Promotion - Rhiannon Corcoran and Rosie Mansfield
Chapter 19: Psychopharmacology for Mental Health Nurses - Jennie Day and Mick McKeown
Part C: Skills for Care and Therapeutic Approaches
Chapter 20: Wellbeing in Mental Health Care - Kevin Acott, Emily Griffin and Harvey Wells
Chapter 21: Recovery-Orientated Practice - Karen Machin and Emma Watson
Chapter 22: Employment and Recovery in Mental Health Care - Chris Essen and Jane Cahill
Chapter 23: Compassionate Communication in Mental Health Care - Sue Barker and Gemma Emile
Chapter 24: Meeting The Physical Health Needs of Mental Health Service Users - Jacquie White, Samantha O’Brien, Megan Beadle and Anthony Ackroyd
Chapter 25: Therapeutic Engagement For Mental Health Care - Simon Hall And Mandy Reed
Chapter 26: Mental Health Assessment - Nicki Moone and Steve Trenoweth
Chapter 27: Care Planning - Michael Kelly, Claudette Kaviya and Oladayo Bifarin
Chapter 28: Mental Health Care Coordination - Michael Coffey, Rachel Cohen and Bethan Edwards
Chapter 29: Mental Health Risk Assessment: A Personalised Approach - John Butler and Michael Haslam
Chapter 30: Minimising Violence and Related Harms - Owen Price
Chapter 31: Cognitive Behavioural Therapies - Sarah Traill and Adam Traill
Chapter 32: Psychosocial Interventions to Support Carers - Doug MacInnes, Amanda Francis and Annie Jeffrey
Chapter 33: Self-Help and Peer Support in Recovery - Alan Simpson and Susan Henry
Chapter 34: Therapeutic Communities, Democracy and the New Recovery Movement - Jenelle Clarke, Nick Manning, Gary Winship and Simon Clarke
Part D: Tailoring Care to People with Specific Needs
Chapter 35: Dementia: Assessment and Care Approaches - David Pulsford, Michael Smith and Eve Potts
Chapter 36: Care of People Experiencing Eating Disorders - Karen M. Wright and Robert Bond
Chapter 37: Children and Young People’s Mental Health Care - Rebecca Hall and Sophie Holt
Chapter 38: Non-Medical Alternatives for Crisis Care - Helen Spandler, Dina Poursanidou and Mick McKeown
Chapter 39: Primary Mental Health Care - Nick Bohannon, Sumaiyaa Khoda and Gary Lamph
Chapter 40: Palliative and End-Of-Life Care in Mental Health Care - Jayne Breeze, Carol Cooper, Angela Kydd, Suzanne Monks, Julie Skilbeck, James Turner and Eleanor Wilson
Chapter 41: Working Compassionately with People who Self-Harm - Gillian Rayner, Karen M. Wright and Caroline Brown
Part E: Transition to Practice
Chapter 42: Democratic Leadership for Mental Health Care - Mick McKeown, Karen M. Wright and Lynda Carey
Chapter 43: Clinical Supervision in Mental Health Nursing - Karen M. Wright and Natalie Miles
Chapter 44: Transferable Skills and Transition: Becoming a Mental Health Nurse and Beyond - Marie O’Neill and Kevin Moore
Chapter 45: Commissioning for Mental Health Services - Ged McCann, Mick Burns and Ian Callaghan
Chapter 46: Compassionate Mental Health Care in Times of Uncertainty - Karen M. Wright, Mick McKeown and Mike Thomas