Mental Health

Mental Health is an accessible introductory textbook aimed primarily at nursing and health care students who are not in the mental health field of practice but are seeking to understand mental health and become rounded practitioners. It will also be useful as a broad introduction for mental health nursing students.
Through clear explanations, examples and activities, the book will help you to recognise and support people with mental health issues whenever they are encountered in your practice. You will learn:

About the authors; Abbreviations; Introduction

1. Mental health and wellbeing
Angelina Chadwick and Lorna McGlynn
     1.1 Introduction
     1.2 Mental health and wellbeing
     1.3 The relationship between mental health and physical health
     1.4 Promoting mental health and wellbeing

2. Approaches to mental health
Seán Welsh
     2.1 Introduction
     2.2 The biomedical approach to mental health
     2.3 Behavioural approaches to mental health
     2.4 Psychological approaches to mental health
     2.5 Cognitive approaches to mental health
     2.6 Psychodynamic approaches to mental health
     2.7 Humanistic approaches to mental health
     2.8 Psychosocial approaches to mental health
     2.9 Trauma-informed approaches to mental health

3. Communicating, relating and providing support
Elizabeth Tudor and Angelina Chadwick
     3.1 Introduction
     3.2 Communication skills
     3.3 Core conditions
     3.4 Therapeutic relationships / therapeutic alliance
     3.5 Values and beliefs in practice
     3.6 Person-centred and holistic care
     3.7 Personal and professional boundaries
     3.8 Patients transferred from a mental health setting
     3.9 Challenging behaviour

4. Nursing and caring for individuals with mental health problems
Elizabeth Burns, Emma Street, Shelly Allen and Lisa Bluff
     4.1 Introduction
     4.2 Anxiety
     4.3 Obsessive-compulsive disorder
     4.4 Post-traumatic stress disorder
     4.5 Depression
     4.6 Bipolar disorder
     4.7 Psychosis
     4.8 Schizophrenia
     4.9 Self-harm
     4.10 Suicidal feelings
     4.11 Eating disorders
     4.12 Mental health difficulties in pregnancy and beyond
     4.13 Alcohol and drug use disorders
     4.14 Personality disorders

5. Mental health in early life
Celeste Foster and Eunice Ayodeji
     5.1 Introduction
     5.2 The link between child mental health and child development
     5.3 Underlying principles of child mental health service provision in the UK
     5.4 Understanding the legal framework for working with children and young people with mental health needs
     5.5 Common mental health conditions in children and young people
     5.6 Specialist child and adolescent mental health services (CAMHS)
     5.7 Recognising signs of distress and responding helpfully

6. Mental health in adulthood
Lorna McGlynn, Neil Murphy and Shelly Allen
     6.1 Introduction
     6.2 Interventions
     6.3 Mental health services
     6.4 Roles

7. Mental health in later life
Rachel Price and Katie Davis
     7.1 Introduction
     7.2 The mental health of older people
     7.3 Mental health conditions in older age
     7.4 Self-harm and suicide in later life
     7.5 Mental health assessment in later life
     7.6 Therapeutic interventions in later life
     7.7 Pharmacological interventions in later life
     7.8 Mental health services for older people

8. Legal and ethical issues
Will Hough and Elizabeth Garth
     8.1 Introduction
     8.2 Legal frameworks
     8.3 Ethics
     8.4 Ethical theories

9. Risk
Neil Murphy
     9.1 Introduction
     9.2 Assessing risk
     9.3 Considerations in assessing risk
     9.4 Safeguarding
     9.5 Boundaries
     9.6 Mass media
     9.7 Practicalities of the assessment of risk

References; Index