European Psychiatric/Mental Health Nursing in the 21st Century

José Carlos P. Santos is Coordinator Professor at the Nursing School of Coimbra in Portugal. He has a background in nursing and experience in general and psychiatric hospitals. He completed his nursing degree (1986), his mental health specialisation (1997) and his master’s degree (2000) in Coimbra, and his Doctoral degree (2006) in Oporto University. He is a researcher of the Health Sciences Research Unit-Nursing (UICISA-E), hosted by the Nursing School of Coimbra. He is the coordinator of the project “Prevention of suicidal behaviours” with three main areas: adolescents- prevention of suicidal behaviours in schools; families-prevention of suicides with the families; professionals-guidelines and tools to prevent suicides. He is a professor in the field of Mental Health Nursing, and he teaches in Doctoral programmes, master’s degree programs and in an undergraduate nursing degree. The main issues are related to the area of Psychiatric/Mental Health Nursing. Actually he is the coordinator of the Master programme in Psychiatry and Mental Health Nursing. He has published books, papers, chapters, abstracts/conference proceedings in Portuguese and English. He is a board member of nursing journals such as “International Journal of Mental Health”, “Referência”, “Revista de Investigação em Enfermagem” and “Revista Sinais Vitais”.Dr. John R Cutcliffe holds the ‘Blanke Endowed Research Chair in Nursing Research’ and is the Director for the Center for Nursing Research at Wright State University, Ohio, USA. He also holds Adjunct Professor positions at the University of Ottawa, Canada, the University of Coimbra, Portugal and the University of Malta. He completed his psychiatric nurse and general nurse education in UK. His research interests focus on hope, suicide and clinical supervision and he was recognised by the federal government of Canada and cited as one of the top 20 ‘Research Leaders of Tomorrow’ for his research focusing on hope and suicidology. He has published over 210 papers/chapters, 11 books and over 90 abstracts/conference proceedings.He has over $5,000,000 dollars of extra-mural research funding as Primary/Co-Investigator and his research findings, are now found in best practice guidelines in several parts of the world. He has served as the national Canadian Representative for the International Association of Suicide Prevention and the Director of the International Society of Psychiatric Nurses: Education and Research division. He is the Associate Editor for the highest ranked Psychiatric/Mental Health Nursing Journal and is serving on the boards of 8 other health or education focused journals. And in 2012 was invited by the Director of Medicine at Yale University to join the first international advisory board on Clinical Supervision.

• Chapter 1.Introduction.- Section 1. Principles and Theories.- Chapter 2. Taxonomies: Towards a shared nomenclature and language.- Chapter 3. Interpersonal.- Chapter 4. Humanistic.- Chapter 5. Cognitive Behavioural.- Chapter 6. Psychodynamic.- Chapter 7. Biopsychosocial.- Chapter 8. Two types of P/MH nurse.- Section 2. Epidemiology.- Chapter 9. European Mental Health Epidemiology and trends.- Section 3. The person in mental distress.- Chapter 10. Service User involvement and views.- Chapter 11. Psychological adaptation.- Chapter 12. Mental Health nurses and responding to suffering in the 21st century occidental world: Accompanying people on their search for meaning. Archives of Psychiatric Nursing, 29, 19-25.- Chapter 13. Types of personality and how this effects responses to mental health challenges.- Chapter 14. Trauma informed care.- Section 4. Human experiences of and P/MH nursing responses.- Chapter 15 Problems effecting a person’s mood.- Chapter 16 Problems related to anxiety.- Chapter 17 Problems related to schizophrenia.- Chapter 18 Problems related to dementias and cognitive impairment.- Chapter 19 Problems related to substance and alcohol misuse.- Chapter 20 Problems related to eating disorders.- Chapter 21 Problems related to PTSD.- Section 5. P/MH Nursing competencies and ways of working.- Chapter 22. Forming and maintaining Interpersonal Relationships.- Chapter 23. Communication skills.- Chapter 24. Working in groups.- Chapter 25. Working with families.- Chapter 26. Mental Health promotion.- Chapter 27. Therapeutic Milieu.- Chapter 28. Descalation and defusion.- Section 6. Special Populations.- Chapter 29. P/MH Nursing care of children and adolescents.- Chapter 30. P/MH Nursing care of older adults.- Chapter31. P/MH Nursing care of clients with Dual diagnosis/concurrent disorder.- Chapter 32. P/MH Nursing care of migrants and refugees.- Chapter 33. P/MH Nursing care of the indigent and homeless.- Section 7. Specific Challenges.- Chapter 34. Suicide/Self harm.- Chapter 35. Violence/aggression.- Chapter 36. The withdrawn or recalcitrant client.- Chapter 37. Combating stigma.- Chapter 38. Navigating the legal minefield of mental health care- f) P/MH nursing: cultural and spiritual contexts and challenges.- Section 8. Settings and Contexts.- Chapter 39. Inpatient.- Chapter 40. Day patient (out patient) and Community.- Chapter 41. Green Care and Therapeutic Communities.- Chapter 42. Prisons, Forensics and Correctional facilities.- Chapter 43. "E" Health, telehealth and telematics.- Chapter 44. Public Health or ecological approach

“This book discusses recently discovered key etiological findings and resultant policy/practice shifts in psychiatric/mental health nursing in Europe. … this is written for students of psychiatric/mental health nursing.” (Laura Kelly, Doody's Book Reviews, May, 2018)