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Mental Health: A person-centred approach

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Mental Health
A Person-Centred Approach
Nicholas Procter, Helen Hamer, Denise McGarry, Rhonda Wilson and Terry Froggatt

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Mental Health
A Person-Centred Approach
Edited by: Nicholas Procter – University of South Australia, Helen Hamer – Auckland University,
Denise McGarry – Charles Sturt University, Rhonda Wilson – University of New England and
Terry Froggatt – University of Wollongong
ISBN: 9781107667723 Publication Date: February 2014 AUD $89.95

Mental Health: a person-centred approach aligns leading mental health


research with the human connections that can and should be made in mental Table of Contents
health care. It seeks to deepen readers’ understanding of themselves, the 1. Introduction to mental health and mental
work they do, and how this intersects with the lives and crises of people illness: Human connectedness and the
with mental illness. collaborative consumer narrative
2. Learning through human connectedness on
This book adopts a storytelling approach, which encourages engagement clinical placement: Translation to practice
with the lives and needs of consumers and carers in mental health. It has 3. The social and emotional wellbeing of
a nursing focus but considers the broader health context and a range of Aboriginal Australians
practice settings. 4. Maori mental health
5. Assessment of mental health and mental
illness
Each chapter features learning objectives, reflective and critical thinking
6. Legal and ethical aspects in mental health
questions, extension activities and further reading. Chapters also include
care
stories of those with direct experience recovering from mental illness, using
7. Mental health and substance use
mental health services or giving mental health support. 8. Nutrition, physical health and behaviour
change
Mental Health: a person-centred approach is a comprehensive resource 9. Mental health of people of migrant and
which utilises fresh thinking to support the development of safe, high-quality, refugee background
person-centred care in both the Australian and New Zealand context. 10. Gender, sexuality and mental health
11. Mental health of children and young
people
Features 12. Mental health of older people
• In each chapter, consumers and/or carers of people with a mental illness 13. Rural and regional mental health
14. Mental health in the interprofessional
provide narratives of firsthand experience, to ensure readers are fully
context
engaged with the needs of consumers and carers in mental health.
15. Conclusions: Looking to practice
Written for this text, these narratives encourage deep learning to support
the development of safe, high-quality person-centred care.
• Provides a consistent human inquiry approach to engagement with
people with mental illness and the people who care for them.
• Provides a nursing focus, but considers the broader health context and
a range of practice settings.
• Provides a positive, respectful approach to mental health (rather than an
illness focus) for the next generation of the workforce.
• Includes extensive pedagogy within each chapter, including reflective
questions, key terms, critical thinking questions and learning extensions.
• Includes comprehensive online support material.

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