Table of Contents

Contributors
Preface

Part 1: Foundations
1 Mental health
2 Mental disorder
3 Mental health nursing: an art and a science
4 Health promotion in mental health nursing
5 Recovery and social inclusion
6 Improving mental health services
7 Continuing professional development and advanced practice

Part 2: Contexts
8 The social policy context of mental health care
9 The service context and organization of mental health care
10 Mental health and the law
11 The ethics of mental health nursing

Part 3: Core procedures
12 The therapeutic relationship: engaging clients in their care and treatment
13 Creating a therapeutic environment in inpatient care and beyond
14 Assessment
15 Care planning
16 Admission and discharge planning
17 Assessing and managing the risk of self harm and suicide
18 Identifying and managing risk of aggression and violence

Part 4: Interventions
19 Self-management
20 Counselling approaches
21 Cognitive behavioural techniques for mental health nursing practice
22 Solution-focused approaches
23 Motivational interviewing
24 Working with groups
25 Working with families and carers
26 Psychopharmacology
27 Mental health medication in practice
28 Concordance, adherence and compliance in medicine-taking
29 Complementary and alternative therapies
30 Promoting physical health

Part 5: Client groups
31 Children and adolescents
32 Older people with functional mental health problems
33 Older people with dementia
34 The person with a diagnosis of psychosis or schizophrenia
35 The person who experiences depression
36 The person with a bipolar affective disorder
37 The person with an anxiety disorder
38 The person with an eating disorder
39 The person with co-existing mental illness and substance use problems ('dual diagnosis')
40 The person with a personality disorder
41 Forensic mental health care

Part 6: Future directions
42 Older people are the future: Towards an understanding of the quality of mental health nursing care for older people

About the Author

Ian Norman is Professor of Nursing and Inter-disciplinary Care at King's College London. He is a social scientist who is also a qualified mental health, learning disability and general nurse and social worker. Most of his clinical practice has been as a mental health nurse and he maintains his clinical skills currently through attachment to the psychological treatment unit at the Maudsley Hospital, London. He has an extensive publication record including many articles in academic and professional journals and three previous books. He is also Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Nursing Studies. Iain Ryrie has worked in the mental health field since 1983 and has delivered a varied portfolio of research, evaluation and practice development since 1990. He has held senior operational and R&D positions in NHS Trusts, academic departments and charitable Foundations, and has published extensively for both national and international audiences. Iain works currently as a health care research consultant for Tribal Group Plc.