Description |
vii, 341 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
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regular print |
Contents |
Part I. Theory and Practice Underpinning: 1. Ourselves as mental health nurses, consumers and teachers, 2. Student/nurse self-awareness and therapeutic interaction, 3. Psychiatric models, consumers and mental health nursing, 4. Watch your language: psychobabble and other rhetoric, 5. Saluting health: the imperative of nursing and mental health nursing, 6. Interpersonal nursing for mental health, 7. Conundrums of care: paradoxes in interpersonal relationships -- Part II. Mental Health Nursing Practice: 8. Emotions: anxiety is contagious, 9. Emotions: misery is scary, 10. Complex upsetting behaviours: fear and aggression, 11. Complex upsetting behaviours: rejection and attraction, 12. Nursing people with altered perceptions and thoughts |
Summary |
Focuses on interpersonal interactions between nurses and consumers. The text elaborates the position that interpersonal relationships are the foundations of nursing practice in that they facilitate or hinder holistic nursing assessment and are the medium within which changes in consumer emotions, behaviour and cognition arise |
Analysis |
Nursing (Australia ) Mental handicaps |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
Audience |
Nursing students and practitioners |
Subject |
Mental health personnel and patient.
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Nurse and patient.
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Nursing -- Practice.
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Psychiatric nurses.
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Psychiatric nursing -- Education.
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Psychiatric nursing.
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Mental Disorders -- nursing.
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Nurse-Patient Relations.
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Psychiatric Nursing.
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Author |
Champ, Simon, author
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Stuhlmiller, Cynthia M., 1956- author
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ISBN |
0864331460 |
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