Evaluation of a study day on child and adolescent mental health services
Child and adolescent mental health is a specialty that can fall between children’s and...
13 Feb 2014
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Our clinical nursing articles aim to inform and educate nurse practitioners and students. This is achieved through the publication of peer-reviewed, evidence-based, relevant and topical articles.
Promoting mental health and wellbeing in practice
Literature on mental health promotion and wellbeing stresses the importance of inherent...
13 Feb 2014
Compulsive hoarding syndrome: engaging patients in treatment
The safety and quality of life of an individual, their family members and others can be...
01 Dec 2013
Diagnostic overshadowing: a potential barrier to physical health care for mental health...
Diagnostic overshadowing occurs when symptoms of physical illness are attributed to the...
01 Dec 2013
Community psychiatric nurses’ experiences of caring for clients with borderline...
Aim To explore the experience of psychiatric nurses who work in the community caring for...
01 Dec 2013
Computer-assisted reminiscence therapy: developing practice
Reminiscence therapy is a positive pastime for people with dementia and there is evidence to...
01 Dec 2013
Serious games: an intervention in low-secure settings
Engaging service users in treatment is part of the supportive and therapeutic care provided...
01 Nov 2013
Suicide in recently released prisoners: a systematic review
Background Research on the mortality of released prisoners is sparse and what research has...
01 Nov 2013
A substance use monitoring tool for people with serious mental health problems
An assertive outreach team has developed and introduced a monitoring tool to improve...
01 Nov 2013
Safeguarding in prisons
Social care safeguarding processes can be introduced in prisons to protect vulnerable...
01 Nov 2013
Staff attitudes towards inpatients with borderline personality disorder
This article discusses the negative attitudes of some nursing staff towards inpatients...
01 Nov 2013
Burnout: the experiences of nurses who work in inner city areas
Mental health nursing is an inherently stressful profession that can place significant...
01 Oct 2013
Risk assessment and management of people with personality disorders
People diagnosed with personality disorders often present a high risk to themselves and...
01 Oct 2013
Enhancing carers’ experiences of mental health services
This article suggests that relational approaches and carer-centred practice in mental health...
01 Oct 2013
Behavioural activation: an alternative to cognitive behaviour therapy
This case study describes how behavioural activation was used to treat a client with...
01 Oct 2013
Implementing clinical supervision in mental health practice
In the UK, the need for suitably trained clinical supervisors to ensure the effective...
01 Oct 2013
Group work for adult survivors of sexual abuse in childhood
This article was inspired by Irvin Yalom’s client-centred approach using qualitative...
01 Sep 2013
Responsibilities in giving evidence to mental health tribunals
Practitioners do not usually receive training on how to give evidence at mental health...
01 Sep 2013