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Talking with acutely psychotic people

01 May 2010

Mental Health Practice

Book Review

THIS IS an excellent report, highlighting the challenges faced by mental health nurses in their attempts to communicate with people experiencing a psychotic episode...

Close observation

01 June 1999

Mental Health Practice

Letter

Dear Editor In last month's issue Barker and Cutcliffe (MHP2, 8, 8-12), argued that the practice of close observation (CO) 'should be abandoned as a matter of...

Why People Die By Suicide

01 October 2006

Mental Health Practice

Interact

For those who know little about the subject of suicide, Joiner’s book provides an interesting and accessible introduction to a number of issues surrounding the...

Clinical Supervision in Mental Health Nursing

01 May 2007

Mental Health Practice

Book Review

The focus of the clinical supervision literature in mental health nursing has shifted in recent years. Early publications argued for the importance of clinical...

On the Receiving End

01 October 2008

Mental Health Practice

Book Review

This book consists of a number of first person accounts of the psychological impact of enforced treatment. There are commentaries on the subject from a number of...

Nothing purple, nothing black

01 May 2002

Mental Health Practice

Book Review

On reading Paul Crawford’s Nothing Purple, Nothing Black I was reminded of my initial reaction to Solzhenitsyn’s One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich: on the...

Mental Health Practice: Choice or Control

01 December 1998

Mental Health Practice

Book review

This is an up-todate and timely book that reflects recent debate in the delivery of community care. It is jargon free, with a multi-professional focus that is easily...

Fit to Die: Men and eating disorders

01 April 2006

Mental Health Practice

Book review

This book is ‘designed to complement’ the author’s previous self-help books on the subject and is aimed at men who feel that they may be experiencing an eating...

Understanding and implementing the nurse’s holding power (section 5(4)) of the Mental Health Act 1983

11 September 2014

Mental Health Practice

CPD

This article explores section 5(4) of the Mental Health Act, which permits nurses of a ‘prescribed class’ to detain an informal inpatient who is receiving treatment...

Concerns over the influence that pharmaceutical representatives (PRs) have on nurses prompt Russell Ashmore and Neil Carver to ask: does the profession need PRs at all?

01 October 2001

Mental Health Practice

Opinion

I magine the scenario. You return from a lunchtime presentation that informed you about the wonders of new drug X. You have been well fed for ‘free’-and are feeling...