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Mental Health Practice, 2nd Edition

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By Peter N Watkins, MEd, RMN, RNT, DipN, Dip Hum Psych
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'Mental Health Practice: a guide to compassionate care' examines the relationship between mental health professionals and people using services during the recovery process. The disabling distress experienced by many people with mental health problems is viewed from a holistic, person-centred perspective with the road to recovery being seen as the result of true collaboration between professionals and service users.

This book is the second edition of 'Mental health Nursing: the art of compassionate care' and a companion book to 'Recovery: a guide for mental health practitioners'.
ISBN :
9780702040801
Publication Date :
29-08-2008
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The eBook version of this title gives you access to the complete book content electronically*. Evolve eBooks allows you to quickly search the entire book, make notes, add highlights, and study more efficiently. Buying other Evolve eBooks titles makes your learning experience even better: all of the eBooks will work together on your electronic "bookshelf", so that you can search across your entire library of Nursing eBooks.

*Please note that this version is the eBook only and does not include the printed textbook. Alternatively, you can buy the Text and Evolve eBooks Package (which gives you the printed book plus the eBook). Please scroll down to our Related Titles section to find this title.

'Mental Health Practice: a guide to compassionate care' examines the relationship between mental health professionals and people using services during the recovery process. The disabling distress experienced by many people with mental health problems is viewed from a holistic, person-centred perspective with the road to recovery being seen as the result of true collaboration between professionals and service users.

This book is the second edition of 'Mental health Nursing: the art of compassionate care' and a companion book to 'Recovery: a guide for mental health practitioners'.

Key Features
  • The first in-depth exploration of the intentional use of self in mental health care and its significance in the recovery journey, extensively updated
  • New content on action research, eco-psychology and organisational culture
  • Story boxes illustrating key themes in compassionate care
  • Self-enquiry boxes engaging readers in reflective practice
  • A primer on humanistic psychology and its relevance to mental health care

Author Information
By Peter N Watkins, MEd, RMN, RNT, DipN, Dip Hum Psych, Mental Health Nurse with the East Suffolk Outreach Team, Local Health Partnerships NHS Trust, Ipswich, UK and Formerly Senior Lecturer in Mental Health at Suffolk College, Ipswich, UK