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Book: Psychopharmacology: A mental health professional’s guide to commonly used medications (Nursing)

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Book Title:

Psychopharmacology: A mental health professional’s guide to commonly used medications (Nursing).

Author(s): Herbert Mwebe.

Year: 2018.

Edition: First (1st).

Publisher: Critical Publishing Ltd.

Type(s): Paperback and Kindle.

Synopsis:

This jargon-free guide is suitable for all trainee and registered health professionals who require knowledge and understanding of drugs used in the treatment of mental health conditions for prescribing or administering purposes. A life-saving pocketbook that you can easily carry anywhere you go!

Introductory material provides a background on psychotropic drugs, the aetiology of mental illness, some of the commonly used drugs in practice and brief notes on common non-pharmacological interventional options. It also examines biochemical and neurodevelopmental theories and the link to the pathophysiology of mental illness as well as clinical decision making.

The central chapters of the book provide comprehensive coverage of all the major medications used in mental health. Each focuses on a specific class of drug, detailing the most commonly used medicines, including side effects, average doses, contra-indications and clinical management interventions that may be required. At the end of each chapter a series of review questions enable readers to review their learning, and theory is clearly related to practice throughout.

Book: Oxford Handbook of Mental Health Nursing

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Book Title:

Oxford Handbook of Mental Health Nursing (Oxford Handbooks in Nursing).

Author(s): Patrick Callaghan and Catherine Gamble (Editors).

Year: 2015.

Edition: Second (2nd).

Publisher: OUP Oxford.

Type(s): Flexibound (Illustrated) and Kindle.

Synopsis:

Fully revised for its second edition, the Oxford Handbook of Mental Health Nursing is the indispensable resource for all those caring for patients with mental health problems. Practical, concise, and up-to-date with the latest guidelines, practice, and initiatives, this handbook is designed to allow essential information to be quickly accessible to nurses in a busy clinical setting.

This Handbook contains expert guidance on all aspects of the nurses role. Written by experienced nurses and teachers, it will help you achieve the best possible results for your patients. Summaries of key sections of the mental health act are provided, as well as the mental capacity act, mental health legislation in Scotland and other UK countries. New material for the second edition includes expanded and revised information on leadership, medications, physical interventions, basic life support, religion, spirituality and faith, and working with older adults, as well as a brand new chapter on contemporary issues in mental health nursing.

Book: The Nurse’s Guide to Mental Health Medicines

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Book Title:

The Nurse’s Guide to Mental Health Medicines.

Author(s): Liz Holland.

Year: 2018.

Edition: First (1st).

Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd.

Type(s): Hardcover, Paperback and Kindle.

Synopsis:

The Nurse’s Guide to Mental Health Medicines is an invaluable, pocket sized guide to a complex subject. Each chapter provides a short and easy-to-read overview of the different drug types used in mental health nursing, focusses only on the need to know information and the associated risks and side effects. The chapters also provide a short medicines list that gives you fast facts relating to the most common drugs used in practice.

Key features:

  • Simple layout with clear tables putting the facts at your fingertips.
  • Written by nurses for nurses providing the perfect amount of detail for the busy student or practitioner.
  • Clear and simple language combined with real world case studies to cut through the jargon and terminology.

Book: Mental and behavioural state examination: Theory into Practice – A Nurse’s Perspective on Psychiatric Assessment

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Book Title:

Mental and behavioural state examination: Theory into Practice – A Nurse’s Perspective on Psychiatric Assessment.

Author(s): Tim Whittard.

Year: 2020.

Edition: First (1st), Illustrated Edition.

Publisher: The Choir Press.

Type(s): Paperback.

Synopsis:

The ability to carry out assessments of mental and behavioural state is a useful and required skill for those who work within the healthcare industry, as well as in other professions where there is a routine requirement to work with vulnerable members of the public; this includes nurses and therapists of all specialties and backgrounds, midwives, care assistants, doctors, social workers, school teachers and emergency services, including paramedics and police officers (among numerous other professional groups).

This book attempts to break down each aspect of the assessment using psychiatric terminology, definitions and examples in order to provide the reader with a comprehensive guide in how to carry out mental and behavioural state examinations (MBSEs) which is both detailed and concise.

It is an essential handbook for those novices and more experienced clinicians alike, who wish to have a concise directory of some of the basic and core theoretical principles which underpin the process of non-medical psychiatric assessment in the 21st century.

Book: Emotional Fitness: A-Z for Positive Mental Health

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Book Title:

Emotional Fitness: A-Z for Positive Mental Health.

Author(s): Clare Davis.

Year: 2020.

Edition: First (1st).

Publisher: Independently Published.

Type(s): Paperback and Kindle.

Synopsis:

We all have our ‘ups’ and ‘downs’ in life, reacting to events emotionally. This book outlines 26 easy ways to improve your emotional fitness, with plenty of practical activities to help you put the theory into practice. We should work on our emotional fitness on a daily basis, learning to manage them. Using preventative measures will enable you to manage your emotions before you get to the stage of not coping.

Book: How Mental Health Nurses Swear Colouring Book

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Book Title:

How Mental Health Nurses Swear Colouring Book: A Mental Health Nurse Colouring Book.

Author(s): Carol Cook.

Year: 2019.

Edition: First (1st).

Publisher: Independently Published.

Type(s): Paperback.

Synopsis:

This irreverent and sweary colouring book features laugh-out-loud funny and original designs that are perfect for taking the stress out of work, relationships, family gatherings, and other unnecessarily stressful situations.

Provides HOURS of colouring FUN, at home, in the car, or when trying not to swear out loud(!).

FEATURES:

  • 50 High Quality Original Colouring Pages.
  • 100 Pages, High Quality Paper.
  • Large Page size 8.5×11 Inches for easy use.
  • Perfect humorous gift for family, friends, co-workers, parties, stocking stuffer, and gift exchanges.

Great as a gift or for yourself!

Give the gift of laughter.

Book: Understanding Children and Young People’s Mental Health

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Book Title:

Understanding Children and Young People’s Mental Health.

Author(s): Anne Claveirole and Martin Gaughan (Editors).

Year: 2010.

Edition: First (1st), Illustrated Edition.

Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell.

Type(s): Paperback and Kindle.

Synopsis:

Understanding Children and Young People’s Mental Health has been designed to help the student and newly qualified health care professional to familiarise themselves with the key theoretical frameworks underpinning the field of children and young people’s mental health.

It explores the mental health challenges that children and young people face, and how we as adults can work alongside them to help them face and overcome such challenges.

This book provides comprehensive information on the theory and practice of particular mental health difficulties which children and young people may have to face, including self-harm, depression, suicide, child abuse, eating disorders, substance misuse, and early onset psychosis.

Understanding Children and Young People’s Mental Health is essential reading for pre-registration students in nursing and healthcare on child and mental health branches, and for newly qualified nursing, health and social care practitioners who work with children and young people.

  • Brings together specialist practitioners and academics in the field
  • Incorporates the latest guidelines and policies.
  • Practical and accessible in style with learning outcomes, activities, examples and recommended reading in each chapter.

The Nurse-Patient Relationship: Aggressive Behaviour in a Mental Health Setting

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Research Paper Title

Aggressive Behaviour: Nurse-Patient Relationship in Mental Health Setting.

Background

Mental disorder is known to be as a loss of existential paradigm; individual’s functioning is lacking in all areas. Therefore, it is difficult to point out what the patients exactly need because their needs are set on a broad range of a difficult boundary.

The level of care that follows will be complex and multifactorial because nursing will challenge the interaction with the individual as a whole: behaviours and relations with family members.

At this stage exploring interpersonal conflicts, with past and present aggression behaviours will be crucial.

Methods

The aim of this paper is to investigate the professional experience in a work context where the patient’s clinical condition poses a daily challenge from a physical and emotional perspective.

Narrative investigation is performed here in order to explore the psychological load of the professional’s psychological experience and its implication in facing aggressive situations.

Moreover, this investigation highlights the importance of some professional and personal resources that can be made available to the operator.

Results

These tools could improve the understanding of the subjective experience of acute events guiding the individual through an exploration of the phenomenology of what happened decreasing the intimate stress load.

Conclusions

A constant updating, the knowledge of de-escalation techniques and sharing the experience in dedicated settings could be important allies in the management of risk events.

Reference

Moriconi, S., Balducci, P.M. & Tortorella, A. (2020) Aggressive Behavior: Nurse-Patient Relationship in Mental Health Setting. Pyschiatria Danubina. 32(Suppl 1), pp.207-209.

Public Media: What about Mental Health Nurses?

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Research Paper Title

Swedish Mental Health Nurses’ Experiences of Portrayals of Mental Illness in Public Media.

Background

News reporting about mental illness lack perspectives of the mentally ill themselves and it is almost exclusively psychiatrists who are accessed when healthcare staff is consulted.

The perspective of mental health nurses might contribute to the public understanding of mental illness.

The purpose of this study was to describe mental health nurses’ experiences of how mental illness is portrayed in media.

Methods

Eight semi-structured interviews were conducted with qualified mental health nurses.

Results

A qualitative content analysis resulted in three categories:

  1. Negative portrayals of mental illness;
  2. Inconclusive images of mental illness; and
  3. Biased dissemination of different perspectives.

Conclusions

The conclusion of this study is that mental health nurses experience media portrayals of mental illness as negative and misleading with too much emphasis on the medical perspective while a holistic mental health nursing perspective is heavily obscured.

Mental health nurses need to take a more prominent role in public reporting on mental health to resolve the current lack of relevant facts regarding mental illness.

Further research is needed regarding portrayals of mental illness in social media and how the current lack of perspectives affects public perceptions of mental illness.

In addition, further studies regarding the viewpoints of journalists reporting on mental illness are required.

Reference

Lilieqvist, M., Kling, S., Hallen, M. & Jormfeldt, H. (2020) Swedish Mental Health Nurses’ Experiences of Portrayals of Mental Illness in Public Media. Issues in Mental Health Nursing. 41(4), pp.348-354. doi: 10.1080/01612840.2019.1658244. Epub 2019 Nov 25.