abstract：:The process of suicide risk assessment is often a challenge for mental health nurses, especially when working with an adolescent population. Adolescents who are struggling with particular problems, stressors and life events may exhibit challenging and self-harm behaviour as a means of communication or a way of coping....

journal_title：Journal of psychiatric and mental health nursing

authors： Murray BL,Wright K

更新日期：2006-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:People with learning disabilities are an ageing and increasing population and have been the subject of policy initiatives by the four countries of the UK, detailing the range of supports that need to be in place for this group. The evidence base of their mental health needs is growing and with it the need to ensure th...

journal_title：Journal of psychiatric and mental health nursing

authors： Brown M,Marshall K

更新日期：2006-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The article describes the management of akathisia by a mental health nurse (MHN) prescriber, working in partnership with the patient. A single-case design was used to evaluate this. It highlights three features: first, MHN can safely prescribe psychiatric medication in combination with concordance therapy. Second, the...

journal_title：Journal of psychiatric and mental health nursing

authors： Jones M,Bennett J,Gray R,Arya P,Lucas B

更新日期：2006-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Shame is a recurrent theme in the context of sexually abused women. Sexual abuse is taboo and shameful, and so is shame. Shame affects the development of a person and relationships, and is mentally painful. It is often covert. One aim of the present study was to explore whether and how women exposed to sexual abuse du...

journal_title：Journal of psychiatric and mental health nursing

authors： Rahm GB,Renck B,Ringsberg KC

更新日期：2006-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Analysis of nurse conversation: methodology of the process recording The study explored elements of effective nurse-client interaction between a nurse and a nursing home resident on the third day of the client's recovery from surgery. The interaction was recorded from memory in the form of a process recording then div...

journal_title：Journal of psychiatric and mental health nursing

authors： England M

更新日期：2005-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of the study is to describe how expert nurses perform constant observation of patients with suicidal ideation. A qualitative content analysis is used to analyse individual and focus group interviews of five nurses. One main finding is identified: organizing phases and transitional phases formed during constant...

journal_title：Journal of psychiatric and mental health nursing

authors： Vråle GB,Steen E

更新日期：2005-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The care-giving experience of carers of young adults with early onset psychosis is relatively unexplored. New carers are less likely to be engaged with local services for carers and families, than those more established in their caring role. Understanding the experience of these carers provides some valuable insight i...

journal_title：Journal of psychiatric and mental health nursing

authors： Sin J,Moone N,Wellman N

更新日期：2005-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In recent years the suicide rates have been increasing gradually in many countries. In order to reduce the number of suicides, further research on suicide and the nursing care of suicidal people is required to enhance and advance the quality of suicide nursing care provided. Statistical evidence shows that the most co...

journal_title：Journal of psychiatric and mental health nursing

authors： Sun FK,Long A,Boore J,Tsao LI

更新日期：2005-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper tests the hypothesis that patients' stereotypical dysfunctional interpersonal communication styles would be validly measurable by the command or relationship messages experienced by psychiatric nurses while interacting with the patient in the relatively unstructured every day context of the psychiatric ward...

journal_title：Journal of psychiatric and mental health nursing

authors： Hafkenscheid A

更新日期：2005-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent policy statements that address the quality of care provided by acute mental health services have highlighted an urgent need for specialist nurse education and training. However, examples of how to design and implement such training initiatives are sparse. Drawing on recent experience of developing an innovative...

journal_title：Journal of psychiatric and mental health nursing

authors： Bee PE,Baker JA,Richards DA,Loftus SJ,Bailey L,Lovell K,Woods P,Cox D

更新日期：2005-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There has been a drive towards addressing the types of care and therapeutic interventions available to people with serious mental illness, which is reflected in the latest government mental health policy initiatives. Recent evidence strongly supports the implementation of psychological and social interventions for peo...

journal_title：Journal of psychiatric and mental health nursing

authors： McCann E,Bowers L

更新日期：2005-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Independent advocacy in mental health has become increasingly valued in the UK although little work has examined the day-to-day experiences of advocates themselves. This article reports on a small-scale exploratory qualitative study of practising advocates' experiences of their work in acute and continuing care wards....

journal_title：Journal of psychiatric and mental health nursing

authors： Carver N,Morrison J

更新日期：2005-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The media is an important source of public information on mental ill-health. A man with a serious psychiatric illness attacked a minister with a knife at a Remembrance Sunday service in a remote, rural part of the Highlands, inflicting a severe facial wound. We aimed to identify lessons for the National Health Service...

journal_title：Journal of psychiatric and mental health nursing

authors： Stark C,Paterson B,Devlin B

更新日期：2004-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Clear role definition is essential for directing the focus of nurse education and several studies have attempted to define the role of the mental health nurse (MHN). These, however, came to the conclusion that mental health nursing was difficult to articulate. The aim of this study was to understand how, during their ...

journal_title：Journal of psychiatric and mental health nursing

authors： Rungapadiachy DM,Madill A,Gough B

更新日期：2004-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The self-care deficits experienced by older clients in long-term mental health settings, because of cognitive impairment, are likely to impact upon the clients' higher-order needs. The practice of nursing the elderly involves a lot of personal contact, during the delivery of fundamental physical care. While physiologi...

journal_title：Journal of psychiatric and mental health nursing

authors： Gleeson M,Timmins F

更新日期：2004-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Studies on emotional and physical strain imposed on family members in connection with their responsibility of caring for a person with a severe mental illness have focused on the chronic patients. The situation of family members with patients who are at an early stage of illness and admitted for the first time may ill...

journal_title：Journal of psychiatric and mental health nursing

authors： Ostman M

更新日期：2004-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE OF THE STUDY:The purpose of this study was to describe Finnish psychiatric nurses' ethical perceptions about coercive measures in acute psychiatric setting. METHODS:The data were collected with a questionnaire developed for this study. The sample included 170 Finnish psychiatric nurses on acute wards in five p...

journal_title：Journal of psychiatric and mental health nursing

authors： Lind M,Kaltiala-Heino R,Suominen T,Leino-Kilpi H,Välimäki M

更新日期：2004-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There are currently no studies available in the literature to highlight nurses' experiences of the assertive outreach (AO) engagement process. This study aimed to understand how AO nurses experience this process and what can be learned from it. The participants were five nurses working in a rural AO service in one cou...

journal_title：Journal of psychiatric and mental health nursing

authors： Addis J,Gamble C

更新日期：2004-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:UK national guidance has prioritized developing specialist services for first episode psychosis. Such services are in the early stages of development and a definitive treatment model has yet to be established. The aim of this study was to explore service users' experiences of a first episode intervention designed alon...

journal_title：Journal of psychiatric and mental health nursing

authors： O'Toole MS,Ohlsen RI,Taylor TM,Purvis R,Walters J,Pilowsky LS

更新日期：2004-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The literature is divided into two sections, one on assessment and one on observation, with only one study that tries to make any connection between them. This study, conducted in both acute and forensic areas, attempts to show that there are some direct relationships between assessment criteria and observation levels...

journal_title：Journal of psychiatric and mental health nursing

authors： Kettles AM,Moir E,Woods P,Porter S,Sutherland E

更新日期：2004-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this mini-ethnographic study was to describe medication administration (MA) in short-time inpatient psychiatric care. MA was observed on two psychiatric wards. Field-notes were taken and interviews were conducted with 15 voluntarily admitted patients and nine nurses. The data analysis was conducted as a dia...

journal_title：Journal of psychiatric and mental health nursing

authors： Haglund K,von Essen L,von Knorring L,Sidenvall B

更新日期：2004-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The basically asymmetric character of the 'psychotic patient-psychiatric nurse' relationship constitutes an ethical challenge for the nurse. One aspect of this relationship is that nurses must constantly self-consciously control their behaviour towards the patient. There is some evidence that the patient sometimes fee...

journal_title：Journal of psychiatric and mental health nursing

authors： Hem MH,Heggen K

更新日期：2004-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper offers a definition of 'phatic communication' and identifies examples of it. The paper also illustrates how a knowledge of such communication is useful for mental health nurses in conversation with their clients and colleagues. The importance of turn taking in conversations is also discussed in a cultural c...

journal_title：Journal of psychiatric and mental health nursing

authors： Burnard P

更新日期：2003-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper reports collective data analysis for the Behavioural Status Index insight and communication and social skills subscales. This is an instrument designed specifically for health care practitioners to measure behavioural and social functioning among mental health clients, in particular those in forensic care. ...

journal_title：Journal of psychiatric and mental health nursing

authors： Woods P,Reed V,Collins M

更新日期：2003-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The health and well-being of the individual is a central goal in nursing, and health promotion seeks to enable people to increase control over and improve their health. In mental health care, health is often described in negative terms such as the absence of mental illness, which may create hopelessness and constitute...

journal_title：Journal of psychiatric and mental health nursing

authors： Jormfeldt H,Svedberg P,Arvidsson B

更新日期：2003-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study adopted a lived experience approach utilizing a broad research question to ask 'How do people with borderline personality disorder (BPD) experience their contact with mental health services?'. Unstructured interviews were conducted with seven participants from one mental health trust. A grounded theory meth...

journal_title：Journal of psychiatric and mental health nursing

authors： Fallon P

更新日期：2003-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The care programme approach (CPA), a form of case management, is a key mental health policy in England. Yet after over 10 years, it remains poorly and unevenly implemented with few benefits for service users, carers or mental health staff. This paper reviews the wider literature on case management and identifies and c...

journal_title：Journal of psychiatric and mental health nursing

authors： Simpson A,Miller C,Bowers L

更新日期：2003-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This grounded theory study was designed to generate a mid-range theory of treatment from the perspective of boys who have molested children and undergone outpatient treatment. Data included information from seven boys' charts, their written responses to open-ended questions, and audio-taped interviews. The interviews ...

journal_title：Journal of psychiatric and mental health nursing

authors： Lawson L

更新日期：2003-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent Australian Government policy reflects the integral nature of active consumer participation to the planning and delivery of mental health services. The effectiveness of consumer participation in improving mental health services has received some attention in the literature. Commonwealth Government funding enable...

journal_title：Journal of psychiatric and mental health nursing

authors： Happell B,Roper C

更新日期：2003-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study examines attitudes, of adult users of mental health services, towards hospital and home treatment in a crisis or emergency. A comparison was made between South Asian clients (n = 35) and white residents of the British Isles (n = 26) with a diagnosis of schizophrenia as defined by the International Classific...

journal_title：Journal of psychiatric and mental health nursing

authors： Khan I,Pillay K

更新日期：2003-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Much has been written about care and its centrality to nursing practice. Yet nursing theories and frameworks surrounding care have either been esoteric or prescriptive and are seen as irrelevant to practice. This paper problematizes the notion of care with a view to developing a clearer, flexible framework for mental ...

journal_title：Journal of psychiatric and mental health nursing

authors： McAllister M,Walsh K

更新日期：2003-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:While there is agreement among stakeholders that change is required in mental healthcare, yet the precise nature of this change and how it should be brought about are relatively under-explored. Research has looked at developments taking place in primary mental health services, but relatively little has examined the wo...

journal_title：Journal of psychiatric and mental health nursing

authors： Haque MS,Nolan P,Dyke R,Khan I

更新日期：2002-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper reports on a small research project on multidisciplinary team-working within a medium secure forensic unit in the United Kingdom. Although multidisciplinary team working is widely accepted as an effective strategy for the delivery of healthcare services in modern society it is also recognized that interdisc...

journal_title：Journal of psychiatric and mental health nursing

authors： Mason T,Williams R,Vivian-Byrne S

更新日期：2002-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This inquiry's purpose was to describe the meaning (essence) of moral perspective in adult women's experiences of anger expression. Moral perspectives have been perceived as pivotal to how one constructs and problem-solves real life dilemmas. Since some modes of anger expression have been identified as unhealthy, unco...

journal_title：Journal of psychiatric and mental health nursing

authors： Denham G

更新日期：2002-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The involvement of clients in the process of developing their care and treatment package is well established. If a genuine collaboration in treatment is achieved one of the fundamental bases of this process lies with 'informed consent'. Neuroleptic medication forms the basis of relapse prevention treatment for people ...

journal_title：Journal of psychiatric and mental health nursing

authors： Harris NR,Lovell K,Day JC

更新日期：2002-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper reports on the process and outcomes of the evaluation of an innovative nursing model (the Tidal Model). In relation to process, the study has been used to refine the methodology in terms of defining important variables to take as outcome measures to be analysed both descriptively and inferentially. In relat...

journal_title：Journal of psychiatric and mental health nursing

authors： Stevenson C,Barker P,Fletcher E

更新日期：2002-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this article we describe the findings of an exploratory study into the application of early recognition and early intervention methods aimed at prevention of psychotic relapses in patients with schizophrenia. Following the results we described in part 1, we now focus specifically on factors which favourably or adve...

journal_title：Journal of psychiatric and mental health nursing

authors： van Meijel B,van der Gaag M,Kahn RS,Grypdonck M

更新日期：2002-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Violence in psychiatric inpatient units is a major and growing problem. Research interest has primarily focussed on patient characteristics. The role of staff factors and the antecedents of violent incidents has been neglected, despite the fact that staff factors and behaviour may be more readily amenable to change th...

journal_title：Journal of psychiatric and mental health nursing

authors： Spokes K,Bond K,Lowe T,Jones J,Illingworth P,Brimblecombe N,Wellman N

更新日期：2002-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to approach care systematization in psychiatric nursing in two psychiatric disorder patients who attended 'Nossa Casa', São Lourenço do Sul, RS, Brazil. Nossa Casa services psychiatric patients in the community, focussing on: (i) permanence in their environment, allowing patients to remain cl...

journal_title：Journal of psychiatric and mental health nursing

authors： Hirdes A,Kantorski LP

更新日期：2002-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study examines the impact of training and clinical experience on the inter-rater reliability of the HoNOS. Following either standard or modified HoNOS training, two groups of registered mental health nurses (RMHNs) were tested for inter-rater reliability (IRR) using a standard case vignette. In addition, another ...

journal_title：Journal of psychiatric and mental health nursing

authors： Rock D,Preston N

更新日期：2001-10-01 00:00:00