Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents: The Need for nursing: The Nature of nursing -- Getting personal: being human in mental health care -- The Care and confinement of the mentally ill -- Evidence-based practice in mental health -- The Craft of psychiatric-mental health nursing practice -- Leading developments n the craft of caring -- Recovery: a personal perspective -- Recovery and reclamation: a pilgrimage in understanding who and what we are -- Assessment in practice: Assessment: the foundation of practice -- Assessment methods -- The Craft of interviewing -- Developing collaborative assessment -- The Context of family assessment -- The Assessment of feelings, thoughts and beliefs -- The Structure of care: Psychiatric diagnosis -- Psychiatric diagnosis: living the experience -- Nursing diagnosis -- Collaboration with patients and families -- Specific needs for nursing: The Person who experiences depression -- The Person who is suicidal -- The Person who self-harms -- The Person who hears disturbing voices -- The Person who experiences disturbing beliefs -- The Person with a diagnosis of schizophrenia -- The Person who appears aggressive or violent -- The Person with a diagnosis of bipolar disorder -- The Person with a diagnosis of personality disorder -- The Person who experiences mental health and substance use problems -- The Person who appears paranoid or suspicious -- The Person with experience of sexual abuse -- The Person with an eating disorder -- The Person who is homeless -- The Person with dementia -- The Person with a diagnosis of autism -- Some models of therapeutic practice: Developing therapeutic one-to-one relationships -- Developing empathy -- Groupwork with children and adolescents -- Psychodynamic approaches with individuals -- Psychodynamic approaches to working in groups -- Using counselling approaches -- Bereavement and grief counselling -- Cognitive-behavioural therapy -- Using solution-focused approaches -- Mindfulness -- Therapeutic communities -- The Organization of care: The Acute care setting -- The Psychiatric intensive care unit: coercion, control or care -- Mental health nursing in community care -- Crisis assessment and resolution -- Assertive outreach -- Family support: growing the family support network -- The Liaison psychiatric service -- Services for people requiring secure forms of care: a global problem -- Services for children and young people -- Services for older people with mental health conditions -- Early interventions in psychosis -- Services for women -- Services for asylum seekers and refugees -- Some standardized processes of nursing practice: Admission to a psychiatric unit -- Assessing risk of suicide and self-harm -- Engagement and observation of people at risk -- Record-keeping -- Discharge planning -- The Nurse's role in the administration of electroconvulsive therapy -- Mental health promotion and prevention -- Mental health nurse prescribing -- Legal, ethical and moral issues: Mental health, the law and human rights -- Ethics and nursing -- Sexuality and gender -- Freedom and consent -- Providing culturally safe care -- Spirituality, nursing and mental health -- The Development of mental health nursing: Clinical supervision -- The Possibility of genuine mental health nursing -- Building practice from research -- Reclamation: beyond recovery -- The Future of psychiatric and mental health nursing in context: The United Kingdom context -- The European context -- The Japanese context -- The United States context -- The Canadian context -- The Australian and New Zealand context -- The Politics of caring.