Mental Health

Angelina is Lecturer in Mental Health Nursing a the University of Salford. She began her career as a general nurse in 1986, working in surgery. She later retrained as a mental health nurse and progressed into a variety of mental health nursing clinical and management roles within acute inpatient, older people and community practitioner areas. She moved into education as a training manager in an NHS Mental Health Trust, and then into higher education as a nurse lecturer in 2010. She is currently a module leader in the pre-registration degree nursing programme and teaches on both pre-registration and post graduate programmes. Her keen interest is around physical health in mental health. Angelina has published in a variety of nursing journals and textbooks.Neil started his career as a mental health practitioner in 1980. He trained as a mental health nurse and then as a behaviour therapist, working predominantly in a community role and latterly, in his active practice, working closely with families. Neil is Senior Lecturer in Mental Health Nursing at the University of Salford and has worked in Higher Education since 2002, leading and developing new programmes aimed at enhancing the quality of training offered to nurses and also to cognitive behaviour therapists and advanced clinical practitioners. Neil’s main drive has been to equip as many people as possible in health care with mental health orientated skills in order to enhance care and foster client choice, empowerment and opportunity. His PhD focused on the influence of media representations on mental health practitioners and Neil has published in many nursing journals and textbooks. His publications include ‘Experiences of ACP in training and the supervisors using a hub and spoke model’ published in Practice Nursing.

• About the authors; Abbreviations; Introduction1. Mental health and wellbeingAngelina Chadwick and Lorna McGlynn1.1 Introduction1.2 Mental health and wellbeing1.3 The relationship between mental health and physical health1.4 Promoting mental health and wellbeing2. Approaches to mental healthSeán Welsh2.1 Introduction2.2 The biomedical approach to mental health2.3 Behavioural approaches to mental health2.4 Psychological approaches to mental health2.5 Cognitive approaches to mental health2.6 Psychodynamic approaches to mental health2.7 Humanistic approaches to mental health2.8 Psychosocial approaches to mental health2.9 Trauma-informed approaches to mental health3. Communicating, relating and providing supportElizabeth Tudor and Angelina Chadwick3.1 Introduction3.2 Communication skills3.3 Core conditions3.4 Therapeutic relationships / therapeutic alliance3.5 Values and beliefs in practice3.6 Person-centred and holistic care3.7 Personal and professional boundaries3.8 Patients transferred from a mental health setting3.9 Challenging behaviour4. Nursing and caring for individuals with mental health problemsElizabeth Burns, Emma Street, Shelly Allen and Lisa Bluff4.1 Introduction4.2 Anxiety4.3 Obsessive-compulsive disorder4.4 Post-traumatic stress disorder4.5 Depression4.6 Bipolar disorder4.7 Psychosis4.8 Schizophrenia4.9 Self-harm4.10 Suicidal feelings4.11 Eating disorders4.12 Mental health difficulties in pregnancy and beyond4.13 Alcohol and drug use disorders4.14 Personality disorders5. Mental health in early lifeCeleste Foster and Eunice Ayodeji5.1 Introduction5.2 The link between child mental health and child development5.3 Underlying principles of child mental health service provision in the UK5.4 Understanding the legal framework for working with children and young people with mental health needs5.5 Common mental health conditions in children and young people5.6 Specialist child and adolescent mental health services (CAMHS)5.7 Recognising signs of distress and responding helpfully6. Mental health in adulthoodLorna McGlynn, Neil Murphy and Shelly Allen6.1 Introduction6.2 Interventions6.3 Mental health services6.4 Roles7. Mental health in later lifeRachel Price and Katie Davis7.1 Introduction7.2 The mental health of older people7.3 Mental health conditions in older age7.4 Self-harm and suicide in later life7.5 Mental health assessment in later life7.6 Therapeutic interventions in later life7.7 Pharmacological interventions in later life7.8 Mental health services for older people8. Legal and ethical issuesWill Hough and Elizabeth Garth8.1 Introduction8.2 Legal frameworks8.3 Ethics8.4 Ethical theories9. RiskNeil Murphy9.1 Introduction9.2 Assessing risk9.3 Considerations in assessing risk9.4 Safeguarding9.5 Boundaries9.6 Mass media9.7 Practicalities of the assessment of riskReferences; Index

‘Accessible and thorough, and definitely well pitched for non-mental health clinicians.’Senior Lecturer, Mental Health Nursing