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Benefits of social media for nurses and service users
- Authors:
- BETTON V., TOMLINSON V.
- Journal article citation:
- Nursing Times, 109(24), 2013, pp.20-21.
- Publisher:
- Nursing Times
People with mental health problems are increasingly using social media channels as part of their recovery and to improve their lives. This article discusses social media and how it can be used to complement healthcare. It provides useful tips on using social media, including using blogs and Twitter and provides advice about staying safe online. A short case study illustrates how service-users consultant with borderline personality disorder uses Twitter to provide support and help develop an online community is included. (Original abstract)
Eureka moment proves a winner
- Author:
- SALE Anabel Unity
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 16.03.06, 2006, p.30.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Service users in Kent are helping student mental health nurse practitioners deepen their understanding of mental health problems. The author reports on the Buddy Scheme which won a Community Care award.
Adjusting the focus of mental health nursing: incorporating service user's experiences of recovery
- Author:
- REPPER Julie
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Mental Health, 9(6), December 2000, pp.575-587.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- London
Mental health nursing is currently torn by debate about its proper focus and function, with the two dominant 'camps' competing for ascendancy. Although both traditions stress the need to involve service users in their own care, the hegemonic nature of these professional theories tends to relegate the expertise of those who experience mental health problems. This article considers service users' views and experiences, particularly their accounts of recovery, and finds a place for both approaches. Users also highlight the importance of strategies for social inclusion (facilitating access to roles, responsibilities, relationships and communities) an area of work that has not been prioritised by mental health nurses in either approach. Service users differ from each other and have a range of different roles in different settings. In developing their own strategies for living they need choices, multiple perspectives, a range of approaches and skills.
New directions
- Author:
- THOMAS Ben
- Journal article citation:
- Nursing Times, 24.3.93, 1993, pp.30-32.
- Publisher:
- Nursing Times
In the face of continuing criticism of their role, mental health nurses are shedding outmoded practices and taking a more client-centred approach.
Mental health nursing: the art of compassionate care
- Author:
- WATKINS Peter
- Publisher:
- Butterworth-Heinemann
- Publication year:
- 2001
- Pagination:
- 237p.
- Place of publication:
- Oxford
Analyses mental health nursing, using as a central theme the significance of the relationship between mental health professionals and service users. Discusses the meaning of distress and ways to recovery; the working alliance between professional and user; the therapeutic use of the self by professionals; and personal management and development for professionals.
Different but normal: language, labels and professional mental health practice
- Authors:
- PERKINS Rachel, REPPER Julie
- Journal article citation:
- Mental Health Care, 2(3), November 1998, pp.90-93.
- Publisher:
- Pavilion
The words we use to describe mental illness and people with mental health problems speak volumes about our attitudes to and beliefs about mental ill health. Argues that mental health nurses should be mindful of the hugely significant role language plays, socially and professionally, in perpetuating discrimination, and of its potential as a tool for social change.
A tricky act to balance
- Authors:
- REPPER Julie, PERKINS Rachel
- Journal article citation:
- Nursing Times, 18.3.98, 1998, pp.36-37.
- Publisher:
- Nursing Times
Discusses the dilemma facing mental health nurses as on the one hand they are expected to provide services in accordance with the wishes of service users, and on the other faced with increasing demands that both the public and services users are protected.
Special contribution
- Author:
- BURROW Stephen
- Journal article citation:
- Nursing Times, 11.9.96, 1996, pp.54-56.
- Publisher:
- Nursing Times
Nurses were a soft target in the allocation of blame for the antitherapeutic culture in special hospitals. Argues it is now time to recognise their contribution in building towards client-centred services.
Telling it like it is
- Author:
- CARLILE Guy
- Journal article citation:
- Nursing Times, 13.3.96, 1996, pp.50-52.
- Publisher:
- Nursing Times
People who have been on the receiving end of mental health services can sometimes subsequently offer advice and support to nursing staff working in the area. The author outlines how he came to help others.
User involvement in the education of mental health nurses: an evaluation of possibilities
- Author:
- HOPTON John
- Journal article citation:
- Critical Social Policy, 42, Winter 1994, pp.47-60.
- Publisher:
- Sage
Argues that the substantive empowerment of users of mental health services can be most effectively achieved by employing service users as educators of neophyte mental health professionals. Using British mental health nursing as a case study, this issue is discussed with reference to the occupational culture of nursing and the wider social-political context. Concludes that despite a rhetoric of 'citizenship' and user involvement in the planning of public services, the internal contradictions of Thatcherism and Majorism mitigate against the implementation of such radical change.