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The practitioner/survivor hybrid: an emerging anti-stigmatising resource in mental health care

Mental Health Practice

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This article, which uses a dialogue between a mental health nursing student and an academic, aims to promote hybridity as an anti-stigmatising resource in mental...

Out of the shadows: de-medicalising mental health nursing

14 June 2017

Mental Health Practice

Evidence & practice

This article examines the idea of mental health nursing as separate from psychiatry, but complementary to it. It asks what de-medicalised mental health nursing might...

The concept of recovery and its practical application

14 June 2017

Mental Health Practice

Evidence & practice

Recovery is a contested concept and definitions of it are scattered across various contexts and disciplines, contributing to the confusion that surrounds it. This...

Language use and recovery-oriented practice: a preliminary outline

11 May 2017

Mental Health Practice

Evidence & practice

Despite stronger regulation, there is persistent public concern about the practice values of nurses and other health and social care providers. Implementing...

Online simulated clinical experiences in mental health nursing practice

Mental Health Practice

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Securing mental health clinical placements for nursing students in Canada is becoming more difficult due to several factors, including increased student enrolments....

A review of Care Quality Commission criticisms of English community substance misuse treatment

06 February 2018

Mental Health Practice

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The Care Quality Commission (CQC) monitors, inspects and regulates health and social care services in England to ensure they meet fundamental quality and safety...

Telling tales – mental health nurses can write fiction

06 February 2018

Mental Health Practice

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This article examines the idea of mental health nurses as writers of fiction. It considers how fiction can perpetuate stigma and present mental health nursing in a...

Nurses’ views on reflective practice sessions in a medium secure unit

12 July 2017

Mental Health Practice

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Aim Reflective practice is essential in the development of autonomous, critical and advanced practitioners, and can positively affect nurses at all levels. This...

Therapeutic pluralism in mental health nursing practice

12 July 2017

Mental Health Practice

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Cognitive behaviour therapy (CBT) is a much-debated subject in terms of its efficacy and status as the ‘treatment of choice’ for depression and anxiety. This article...

Evaluation of a pilot dialectical behaviour therapy skills training group, in a child and adolescent mental health service team

07 December 2017

Mental Health Practice

Evidence & practice

Dialectical behaviour therapy (DBT), a cognitive behavioural treatment, was developed originally for suicidal and non-suicidal self-injurious behaviour in adults...