Mental Health Nursing Skills

Patrick Callaghan is the Associate Pro Vice-Chancellor for research and Professor of Mental Health Science at London South Bank University, UK. A Mental Health Nurse, Chartered Health Psychologist, Chartered Health Scientist, and Principal Fellow of the UK Higher Education Academy, Professor Callaghan has worked in mental health for 30 years. He was the first elected Chair of Mental Health Nurse Academics UK, led the education group of the Chief Nursing Officer's Review of Mental Health Nursing in England in 2005, and is a former non-executive director of the Mental Health Act Commission in England. In 2010 he received the Eileen Skellern Memorial Lecture for his contribution to Mental Health Nursing, and in 2016 the Winifred Raphael Memorial Lecture by the Royal College of Nursing. In 2018 he was appointed a National Teaching Fellow, and in 2019 received the Journal of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing's Lifetime Achievement Award for outstanding contribution to mental health nursing. Tommy Dickinson is Professor of Nursing Education and Head of the Department of Mental Health Nursing at King's College London, UK. He is a dual-qualified (adult & mental health) registered nurse. Following a clinical career in social care nursing he moved to an academic role in 2007. In 2018 he received the prestigious endowed Talbott Visiting Professor of Nursing at the University of Virginia. While in the US he gained clinical experience in the Ryan White HIV Clinic and the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioural Sciences' inpatient ward. In 2021 Professor Dickinson became the first and only UK-based nurse to be selected for a Fellowship in the USA's National League for Nursing's Academy of Nursing Education. He is Honorary Professor of Nursing at Queen's University Belfast, Fellow of the American Academy of Nursing and the European Academy of Nursing Science, and an Editorial Board member of the Journal of Nursing Education and the Journal of American Nurses Association- New York. Anne Felton is the Head of the Institute of Health and Allied Professions at Nottingham Trent University, UK. Over three years, she has led the introduction of 15 new programmes in nursing, paramedicine, and continuing professional development. Dr Felton began her mental health nursing career promoting recovery approaches in the community before moving to an academic role. She has led several projects related to the participation of people with health conditions in professional education, simulation, and student mental health. She is committed to enhancing the care experiences of people using health services, through her own teaching practice and more recently through developing high performing teams delivering excellent education and research in the healthcare field. Dr Felton undertakes qualitative research with expertise in shared decision making, co-production, and critical perspectives of risk, which has been widely disseminated.

1: Andrew C. Grundy and Debbie Butler: Service users' views and expectations of mental health nurses,
2: Isaac Tuffour: Values-based mental health nursing
3: Patrick Callaghan and Paul Crawford: Evidence-based mental health nursing practice
4: Carmel Bond, Theo Stickley, and Gemma Stacey: Caring: The essence of mental health nursing
5: Jean Morrissey: Interpersonal communication: Heron's six category intervention analysis
6: Michael Coffey, Greg Rooney, and Stephen McKenna Lawson: Understanding therapeutic relationships in mental health nursing
7: Helen Rees, Adam Chillman, and Zaynab Yasin Sohawon: Assessment in mental health nursing
8: Alan Simpson and Geoff Brennan: Working in partnership
9: Helen Pusey, Simon Burrow, and John Keady: Dementia: A person-centred perspective
10: Alan Simpson and Jessica Sears: Recovery-focused care and safety planning assessment and management
11: Mary Munro-Hargreaves and Billy Ridler: Key skills in telemental health
12: Michael Nash, Christine Kakai, and Roupmatee Joggyah: The essence of physical health care
13: Marie Chellingsworth: Low intensity CBT interventions (guided self-help)
14: Juanita Hoe and Rachel Thompson: Introductory skills for conducting psychosocial interventions in dementia care
15: Maria Filip and Tim Carter: Behavioural activation
16: Anita Henderson and Roy Litvin: Behavioural family interventions for the self-harming and suicidal adolescent
17: Annmarie Grealish and Gemma Trainor: Key skills in working with children and young people
18: Jane Sedgwick-Müller: Key skills in working with people living with neurodevelopmental disorders
19: Alan Pringle and Mark Pearson: Medication management
20: Richard Griffith: Law and practice
21: Dan Warrender and Chris Young: Considering and responding to risk when working with people living with mental health problems
22: Mark Baker, Haseem Usman, and Susan Sookoo: Practising safe and effective observation
23: Rachel Lees, Keith Waters, and Andy Willis: The recognition and therapeutic management of self harm and suicide prevention
24: Dave Riley, Tommy Dickinson, Jeanette Murray, and Wayne Ennis: Supporting people through periods of distress that may result in harm to themselves or others
25: Patrick Callaghan and Adam Sutcliffe: Working with people with substance misuse problems
26: Ben Hannigan and Nick Weaver: Skills to improve care continuity: Working in interagency and interprofessional teams
27: Emma Wadey: Leadership and management in mental health nursing
28: Opeyemi Atanda, Patrick Callaghan, Eleni Vangeli, and Paula Reavey: Health behaviour change theories