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How Can Nurses Meet the Needs of Mental Health Clients?

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Defining health problems and their treatment has always been the responsibility of the health professional although, of late, changes within health care services have encouraged individuals to see themselves as much more active consumers than passive recipients (Audit Commission, 1991; DoH, 1991; DoH, 1993). Putting a name to peoples’ health problems has always been the role of the health care professional (Peplau, 1987). As a result of this shift towards a more consumerized health care system, nurses need to relate to the client in a significantly different way to that previously expected (May, 1995), by giving them a voice in the definition of their own needs.

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  1. Sue Jackson
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Editors and Affiliations

  1. School of Health and Social Care, University of Teesside, England

    Stephan D. Kirby MSc, PgC, (L&T), Dip MDO, RMN (PhD Student) (Senior Lecturer), Denis A. Hart MPhil, MA/CQSW, MA, BSc. (Soc), MBSA (Visiting Lecturer), Dennis Cross TD, BA (Hons), BEd (Hons), MA, RMN, RGN, RNT, (PhD Student) (Principal Lecturer) & Gordon Mitchell BSc (Hons), MA, RMN, Dip Nursing, ILTM (Senior Lecturer and Pathway Leader for Pre-Registration Mental Health Nursing) (Senior Lecturer),  (Visiting Lecturer),  (Principal Lecturer) &  (Senior Lecturer and Pathway Leader for Pre-Registration Mental Health Nursing)

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Jackson, S., Stevenson, C. (2004). How Can Nurses Meet the Needs of Mental Health Clients?. In: Kirby, S.D., Hart, D.A., Cross, D., Mitchell, G. (eds) Mental Health Nursing. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4039-9756-2_3

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