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List of contents
Figures and tables
Acknowledgements
Preface
PART I BACKGROUND AND CONTEXT FOR MENTAL HEALTH NURSING
1. Introduction
2. Conceptual frameworks guiding mental health nursing
3. Recovery
4. Mental health practice settings
5. Legal, ethical and professional issues in mental health nursing
PART II DEFINING AND UNDERSTANDING MENTAL HEALTH PROBLEMS
6. Diagnosing mental illness
7. Symptomatology in mental health
8. Sociological understandings of mental health and Indigenous social and emotional well-being
PART III TREATING MENTAL ILLNESS
9. Physical treatments in mental health care
10. Treatments in mental health: complementary and other therapies
PART IV MENTAL HEALTH NURSING ROLES AND PRACTICE
11. Mental health and illness assessment
12. Nursing care in mental health
13. Treatments in mental health: psychotherapy
14. Cultural safety
15. A safe environment
16. Mental health issues across the health care sector
Index
About the author
Dr Brenda Happell is Professor (Engaged Research Chair) of Mental Health Nursing, Director of the Institute for Health & Social Science Research, and Director of the Centre for Mental Health Nursing Innovation at Central Queensland University. She is the Editor of the International Journal of Mental Health Nursing and Associate Editor of Issues in Mental Health Nursing.
Dr Leanne Cowin is Head of Program for the Master of Nursing course in the School of Nursing & Midwifery at the University of Western Sydney.
Cath Roper is a Consumer Academic at the Centre for Psychiatric Nursing at the University of Melbourne.
Dr Richard Lakeman is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Health & Human Sciences at Southern Cross University.
Dr Leonie Cox is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Nursing, Queensland University of Technology.
Summary
A thorough introduction to mental health nursing practice, with a service user-oriented approach. This second edition is fully updated and includes new chapters on recovery and cultural safety.
