The Philosophy and Practice of Psychiatric Nursing
Selected Writings

Phil Barker (Author)

9780443060045, Elsevier Health Sciences

Paperback / softback, published 11 June 1999

272 pages
24.8 x 19 x 1.8 cm, 0.55 kg

"This is a book for beginners and seasoned nurses, as well as general readers, who would like an inside look at psychiatric nursing practice. I recommend it very highly." Dr Shirley A Smoyak, Mental Health Practice, Vol 3, No2, October 1999

This book brings together a collection of the author's papers which, when taken as a whole, address many of the mostpressing issues in psychiatric nursing today. The papers are linked and present the 'backbone' of the author's philosophy of nursing. Each of the chapters deals either with the search to define the theoretical and practical basis of psychiatric nursing, or addresses more general issues in nursing which have some specific bearing on the practice of psychiatric nursing. Each chapter is followed by an invited commentary from respected psychiatric nurses, who were given the brief to draw out some of the main points of the chapter and put them in focus for today's nurses.

DEVELOPING THE PROPER FOCUS OF NURSING &middot
Therapeutic Nurse-Patient Interaction &middot
The Philosophy of Psychiatric Nursing &middot
Healing Lives and Mending Minds/Clinical Supervision: The Promise and the Challenge &middot
THE CHALLENGE OF WORKING IN PARTNERSHIP &middot
Where Care Meets Treatment: Common Ethical Conflicts in Psychiatric Nursing &middot
Blind in One Eye: Ethical Issues in Psychotherapy &middot
Empowerment: The Realities of Patient Participation &middot
The Eye of the Needle: Research and the Proper Focus of Nursing &middot
FACING THE CHALLENGE &middot
Integrating Evidence and Belief &middot
The Nursing Care of People with Affective Disorder: A Review of the Literature &middot
Messages from the Underworld: Caring for People in Psychosis &middot
An Experiemental Evaluation of Specific Nursing Interventions in Patients with Manic Depressive Psychosis &middot
Implications for the Development of Nursing Practice in Caring for People with Affective Psychosis: The Last Wave? &middot
Promoting Growth and Development in Community Psychiatric Nursing

Subject Areas: Psychiatric nursing [MQCL5]