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The handbook of community mental health nursing
- Editors:
- HANNIGAN Ben, COFFEY Michael
- Publisher:
- Routledge
- Publication year:
- 2003
- Pagination:
- 427p.,bibliogs.
- Place of publication:
- London
This text covers a range of topics, from the history of the profession to current approaches to specific client groups, organized around three linked themes:professional context, practice issues, as well as education and research. The book reflects the diversity and scope of the role of the CMHN and recognizes the multidisciplinary and service user context in which nurses work. is intended forr CMHNs and mental health nurse educators, and allied professionals
Forensic mental health nursing: current approaches
- Editors:
- CHALONER Chris, COFFEY Michael
- Publisher:
- Blackwell Science
- Publication year:
- 2000
- Pagination:
- 328p.
- Place of publication:
- Oxford
Describes the evolution of the role of the mental health nurse. Issues addressed include the care and management of sex offenders, and of personality disordered individuals. Topics explored include the skills and knowledge base of forensic mental health nursing, the development of the forensic nurse's role and the challenges of community services provision. Individual chapters are devoted to issues such as psychosocial interventions, the assessment and management of risk, diversion from the criminal justice system, ethnicity and the ethical aspects of practice.