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Psychiatric Nursing Skills

A patient-centred approach

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  • © 1995

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Authors:
  1. Graham Dexter

    1. University of Teesside, UK

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  2. Michael Wash
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Table of contents (25 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvii
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  2. Core Skills and Strategies

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Personal skills

      • Graham Dexter, Michael Wash
      Pages 3-15

    3. Counselling skills

      • Graham Dexter, Michael Wash
      Pages 16-53

    4. Behavioural skills

      • Graham Dexter, Michael Wash
      Pages 54-84

    5. Supervision

      • Graham Dexter, Michael Wash
      Pages 85-95

  3. Application of Skills

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 97-97
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    2. Working with anxious people

      • Graham Dexter, Michael Wash
      Pages 99-106

    3. Working with depressed people

      • Graham Dexter, Michael Wash
      Pages 107-120

    4. Working with people experiencing delusions

      • Graham Dexter, Michael Wash
      Pages 121-126

    5. Working with people experiencing hallucinations

      • Graham Dexter, Michael Wash
      Pages 127-132

    6. Working with overactive people

      • Graham Dexter, Michael Wash
      Pages 133-138

    7. Working with clients experiencing obsessions and compulsions

      • Graham Dexter, Michael Wash
      Pages 139-146

    8. Working with people who orchestrate

      • Graham Dexter, Michael Wash
      Pages 147-152

    9. Working with people experiencing dependency

      • Graham Dexter, Michael Wash
      Pages 153-160

    10. Working with people expressing aggression in residential settings

      • Graham Dexter, Michael Wash
      Pages 161-166

    11. Working with children

      • Graham Dexter, Michael Wash
      Pages 167-175

    12. Working with elderly confused people

      • Graham Dexter, Michael Wash
      Pages 176-183

    13. Working with people who are dying

      • Graham Dexter, Michael Wash
      Pages 184-195

    14. Working with people experiencing bereavement

      • Graham Dexter, Michael Wash
      Pages 196-208
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About this book

In this book we have attempted to identify skills which are needed by the psychiatric nurse, and in doing so to identify a body of knowledge unique to the professional psychiatric nurse. The book has been written to demonstrate the basis of a skills approach for both the experienced and the inexperienced nurse to build upon, for we believe that psychiatric nurses, due to both their training and their particular mixture of interests, are weil equipped to be in the forefront of psychiatry as a developing art and science. We hope that this book in some small way helps this development. Some of the more recent advances in psychiatric nursing have been rein­ forced by the publication of a training syllabus for mental nurses (English and Welsh National Boards, 1982). This document highlights the need for a change from a medical model to a social model and from a task-oriented leaming experience to a skills approach. We have attempted to reflect this change in emphasis by including such aspects as personal development and self-aware­ ness, human sexuality, the nursing process and counselling skills.

Authors and Affiliations

  • University of Teesside, UK

    Graham Dexter

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Psychiatric Nursing Skills

  • Book Subtitle: A patient-centred approach

  • Authors: Graham Dexter, Michael Wash

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-3009-5

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Graham Dexter and Michael Wash 1995

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-56593-098-8Published: 01 January 1995

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4899-3009-5Published: 01 December 2013

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVII, 318

  • Number of Illustrations: 10 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Psychiatry

  • Industry Sectors: Biotechnology, Engineering, Health & Hospitals, Pharma

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