Mental health nursing : the art of compassionate care / Peter Watkins.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Watkins, Peter, 1939-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Psychiatric nursing.

Psychiatric Nursing.

Medical Subjects:

Psychiatric Nursing.

Physical Description:

ix, 228 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; Boston : Butterworth-Heinemann, [2001]

Contents:

Part 1 Meaning and behaviour 1

Chapter 1 The nature of human distress 5

Chapter 2 Social and cultural issues in the experience of distress 12

Chapter 3 Creative solutions to crisis 25

Chapter 4 A person-centred approach to assessment 45

Chapter 5 Creating pathways to recovery 56

Chapter 6 A humanistic approach to helping 67

Part 2 The working alliance 81

Chapter 7 Beginnings and the working alliance 85

Chapter 8 A framework for the working alliance 87

Chapter 9 The working alliance as an enabling relationship 100

Chapter 10 Advocacy and the working alliance 109

Chapter 11 Case management and the working alliance 113

Chapter 12 The working alliance with families and carers 119

Chapter 13 Reluctance, resistance and the working alliance 132

Chapter 14 Endings and the working alliance 138

Part 3 The therapeutic use of self 141

Chapter 15 The dynamics of therapeutic care 145

Chapter 16 The therapeutic use of self in developmentally needed or reparative relationships 151

Chapter 17 The person-to-person relationship 160

Chapter 18 The spiritual dimension of therapeutic care 175

Chapter 19 The shadow side of helping relationships 181

Part 4 Personal management 187

Chapter 20 Personal development in professional education 189

Chapter 21 Taking care of ourselves 197

Chapter 22 Guided reflection on practice 205.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [212]-219) and index.

ISBN:

0750641193

OCLC:

44548971