Mental Health Practice:: a guide to compassionate care examines the relationship between mental health professionals and people using services during the recovery process. The disabling distress experienced by many people with mental health problems is viewed from a holistic, person-centred perspective with the road to recovery being seen as the result of true collaboration between professionals and service users.
This book is the second edition of Mental health Nursing:: the art of compassionate care and a companion book to Recovery:: a guide for mental health practitioners.
1 The nature of human distress 2 Social exclusion in the experience of distress 3 Transcultural issues and the experience of distress 4 Gender issues and the experience of distress 5 Creative solutions to crises 6 Working with risk 7 A person-centred approach to assessment 8 Creating pathways to recovery 9 Humanistic approaches to helping and healing
Part 2 The working alliance
10 Beginnings and the working alliance 11 A framework for the working alliance 12 The working alliance as an enabling relationship 13 The working alliance with families and carers 14 Reluctance, resistance and disengagement 15 Endings and the working alliance
Part 3 The therapeutic use of self
16 Dynamics of therapeutic care 17 Intentional use of self in developmentally needed or reparative relationships 18 Person to person relationships 19 Spiritual dimensions of therapeutic care 20 The shadow side of helping
Part 4 Personal management
21 Personal development in professional education 22 Taking care of ourselves 23 Being a reflective practitioner
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