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Author Horsfall, Jan, author

Title Interpersonal nursing for mental health / Jan Horsfall and Cynthia Stuhlmiller with Simon Champ
Published Sydney ; Philadelphia ; London : MacLennan & Petty, 2000

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Description vii, 341 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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.
Nurse and patient.
Nursing -- Practice.
Psychiatric nurses.
Psychiatric nursing -- Education.
Psychiatric nursing.
Mental Disorders -- nursing.
Nurse-Patient Relations.
Psychiatric Nursing.
Author Champ, Simon, author
Stuhlmiller, Cynthia M., 1956- author
ISBN 0864331460