Table of Contents

The Editor and contributors
Acknowledgements

Introduction

Section 1 Essential Information
1. Learning on practice placements
2. Background to mental health nurse training
3. Mental health and recognition of mental illness
4. Risk Assessment: practicing accountably and responsibly
5. Mental Health Nursing and the Law
6. Mental health promotion

Section 2 Mental health and illness over the lifespan
7. Child and adolescent mental health
8. Mental health services in the community
9. Secure inpatient and forensic mental health care for adults
10. The mental health of older adults

Section 3 Therapeutic and theoretical perspectives
11. Physical health issues in mental health practice
12.Cognitive behaviour therapy
13. Psychodynamic and psychoanalytic therapeutic interventions
14.Recovery
15 Social inclusion

Conclusion

Answers
Glossary
Index

About the Author

Nick Wrycraft is Senior Lecturer in the Mental Heath and Learning Disabilities Department at Anglia Ruskin University, UK.