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Eye for an eye
- Authors:
- BOWLES Nick, DODDS Peter
- Journal article citation:
- Openmind, 108, March 2001, pp.18-19.
- Publisher:
- MIND
Describes the effect of significantly reducing 'formal observations' on an acute ward.
Psychiatric caring
- Author:
- BARKER Phil
- Journal article citation:
- Nursing Times, 8.3.01, 2001, pp.38-39.
- Publisher:
- Nursing Times
In a break with the tradition of observation and control, the author discovers that some pioneering psychiatric units are finding new ways to reach out to patients in need of acute care.
It isn't something to yodel about, but it exists! Faeces, nurses, social relations and status within a mental hospital
- Author:
- DONGEN E Van
- Journal article citation:
- Aging and Mental Health, 5(3), August 2001, pp.205-215.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
In medical settings, emotion-provoking work creates a hierarchy among health care professionals. Emotions like disgust, contempt or aversion that are evoked by 'body work' with elderly patients often remain invisible, but they play an important role in morality and shape the social relations between the patients and the professionals. With the help of ethnographic data from the nursing wards of a mental hospital in the Netherlands, the author shows how feelings about excrement are determined not only by their nature, but also by the nature of the relationships among the nurses and the relationships between the nurses and the elderly patients. Body care and the emotions that are evoked are connected to morality and moral care. Dealing with bodily and moral 'dirt' gives nurses a special position within the hospital as a whole, which will have effects on the care for elderly.
Communicating effectively with psychotic patients
- Author:
- JOHNSTON John
- Journal article citation:
- Nursing Times, 20.9.01, 2001, pp.36-37.
- Publisher:
- Nursing Times
Argues that nurses need to develop a feel for the hidden meaning of words if they are to have constructive conversations with people whose talk is often dismissed.
A new dawn: the changing face of mental health services in Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Author:
- MAGLAJLIC Reima Ana
- Journal article citation:
- Mental Health and Learning Disabilities Care, 4(12), August 2001, pp.401-404.
- Publisher:
- Pavilion
Bosnia and Herzegovina is gradually pulling itself back from the destruction of the 1992-1996 war. To replace the destroyed mental hospitals the World Bank provided funding for a network of community mental health centres across the country. Educational initiatives have been introduced to provide staff - including, importantly, nurses and social workers - with the necessary training and skills to work in the community setting.
If you're happy and you know it
- Author:
- DAVIS Carol
- Journal article citation:
- Nursing Times, 5.7.01, 2001, pp.26-27.
- Publisher:
- Nursing Times
Anxiety about the mental health of our children is growing. Looks at how nursing intervention in schools can help to tackle the problem at an early stage.
Risk management in mental health
- Author:
- PRATT David
- Journal article citation:
- Nursing Times, 21.6.01, 2001, pp.37-38.
- Publisher:
- Nursing Times
Risk assessment has been forced to the top of the mental health service agenda. Explores the ethical and clinical dilemmas this recent development poses for nurses.
Is anybody listening?
- Author:
- WARNER Lesley
- Journal article citation:
- Nursing Times, 15.3.01, 2001, pp.28-29.
- Publisher:
- Nursing Times
Argues that service users are unhappy with many aspects of inpatient mental health care and looks at how nurses can help.
Mental health professionals' attitudes towards and knowledge of electroconvulsive therapy
- Authors:
- LUTCHMAN Russell D., et al
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Mental Health, 10(2), April 2001, pp.141-150.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- London
Argues that the efficacy and safety of electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) have been established, yet widespread negative public attitudes towards the procedure remain. Studies the attitudes towards and knowledge of ECT among mental health staff of different disciplines. A questionnaire revealed significant differences in attitudes to and knowledge of the therapy between four mental health disciplines, with psychiatrists being most favourably disposed and most knowledgeable, followed by nurses, social workers and psychologists. Concludes that discipline is an accurate predictor of attitudes towards ECT. There is a need for awareness of differences of opinion towards the treatment in multidisciplinary teams, as well as for better education about ECT for all members of the clinical team.
Evidence-based psychological interventions in mental health nursing
- Authors:
- PALEY Graham, SHAPIRO David
- Journal article citation:
- Nursing Times, 18.1.01, 2001, pp.34-35.
- Publisher:
- Nursing Times
Looks at the some of the research evidence which supports alternative counselling methods to cognitive behaviour therapy.