Nursing Skills for Children and Young People's Mental Health

This book focuses on those nursing skills that are truly valued and needed by children and young people with mental health problems.
Whilst other books have chiefly focused on mental health conditions and treatments, this book moves away from this formulaic approach and considers what children and youth themselves need most from health professionals. It shows why nursing skills are among the most precious values for patients. This focus on therapeutic relationships, establishing trust-based forms of nursing, and empowering children and young people to develop into healthy and resilient young adults has largely been neglected, despite the feedback from those who urgently need help but often struggle to find it, or are wary of seeking help and reluctant to engage.

This book focuses on the places where nurses encounter young people and seek to help them. It examines the role nurses play in specialist child and adolescent mental health settings (such as in-patient and community, as psychotherapists, and on self-harm teams) and where paediatrics nurses work with troubled young people (in emergency departments, paediatric wards and primary care). It also considers two specific areas, namely eating disorder services and consent-seeking, that could benefit from nursing skills that are currently undervalued, but are in fact invaluable.

Its focus on those skills that nurses already have, but may not be consciously using, will make this book uniquely appealing to all nurses who work with children and young people with mental health problems, regardless of the setting, and an essential guide for students and experienced professionals alike.

List of contents

What nursing skills are we using with children and young people who experience mental health difficulties?.- What do children and young people want and need from nurses (and therapists)?.- Cognitive and emotional development of young people, and the development of resilience.- Nursing children and young people in specialist CAMHS in-patient settings.- Nursing in specialist community CAMHS settings.- School nursing and primary care - the new frontline.- Paediatric wards and Children's Emergency Departments - wrong place or right place for seeing distressed young people.- Helping children and young people with eating problems and disorders.- Nurse or psychotherapist: Using nursing skills in therapeutic relationships within psychotherapies?.- Self-harm teams and crisis teams in CAMHS, what nurses bring to the acute moments in young people's lives.- Helping young people understand issue of consent to treatment.- Summary.

About the author

Laurence Baldwin  is a Assistant Professor in Mental Health Nursing at Coventry University where he leads on research methodology at postgraduate level. He spent over thirty years in the NHS working mostly in specialist Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services, for the last thirteen years as a Nurse Consultant. During this time he also became an independent nurse prescriber, and represented the Royal College of Nursing at various national forums, including the CAMHS Taskforce that developed the 'Future in Mind' policy. Clinically he has interests in ADHD, Autistic Spectrum Disorders, and self-harm, as well as developing service-user led research projects. His PhD was on professional identity in CAMHS, and he recently developed an online module for the MSc Nursing for Coventry University Online.

Summary

This book focuses on those nursing skills that are truly valued and needed by children and young people with mental health problems.
Whilst other books have chiefly focused on mental health conditions and treatments, this book moves away from this formulaic approach and considers what children and youth themselves need most from health professionals. It shows why nursing skills are among the most precious values for patients. This focus on therapeutic relationships, establishing trust-based forms of nursing, and empowering children and young people to develop into healthy and resilient young adults has largely been neglected, despite the feedback from those who urgently need help but often struggle to find it, or are wary of seeking help and reluctant to engage.

This book focuses on the places where nurses encounter young people and seek to help them. It examines the role nurses play in specialist child and adolescent mental health settings (such as in-patient and community, as psychotherapists, and on self-harm teams) and where paediatrics nurses work with troubled young people (in emergency departments, paediatric wards and primary care). It also considers two specific areas, namely eating disorder services and consent-seeking, that could benefit from nursing skills that are currently undervalued, but are in fact invaluable.

Its focus on those skills that nurses already have, but may not be consciously using, will make this book uniquely appealing to all nurses who work with children and young people with mental health problems, regardless of the setting, and an essential guide for students and experienced professionals alike.

Additional text

“The book is written for nurses who provide care for children and adolescents and meets the needs of the intended audience. Students and nurse clinicians who care for children in a variety of settings may find the book useful in enhancing their nursing skills in caring for children with mental health problems.” (Anne Turner-Henson, Doody's Book Reviews, June 4, 2021)

Report

"The book is written for nurses who provide care for children and adolescents and meets the needs of the intended audience. Students and nurse clinicians who care for children in a variety of settings may find the book useful in enhancing their nursing skills in caring for children with mental health problems." (Anne Turner-Henson, Doody's Book Reviews, June 4, 2021)

Product details

• Assisted by: Laurenc Baldwin (Editor), Laurence Baldwin (Editor)
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.2019
• EAN: 9783030186784
• ISBN: 978-3-0-3018678-4
• No. of pages: 198
• Dimensions: 160 mm x 12 mm x 238 mm
• Weight: 406 g
• Illustrations: XIII, 198 p. 8 illus., 6 illus. in color.
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > Nursing; B, Medicine, Nursing, Psychiatry, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Nursing—Study and teaching, Nursing Education, Child psychiatry, Child and Adolescence Psychology, Nursing Management, Nursing administration, Nursing research & theory, Nursing management & leadership