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This well-established textbook is a must-buy for all mental health nursing students and nurses in registered practice. Comprehensive and broad, it explores how mental health nursing has a positive impact on the lives of people with mental health difficulties.

Several features help you get the most out of each chapter and apply theory to practice, including:


* Personal Stories: Provide insight into the experience of mental health difficulties from the perspective of service users and their carers
* Thinking Spaces: Help you reflect on your practice and assess your learning individually and in groups, with further guidance available online
* Recommended Resources: Provide additional materials and support to help extend your learning


New to this edition:

With four brand new chapters plus nine chapters re-written by original authors, key developments in this edition include:
* Physical health care of people with mental health problems
* Care of people who experience trauma
* Promoting mental health and well-being
* Support needed by nurses to provide therapeutic care and to derive satisfaction from their work
* Innovations in mental health practice


`The newly revised and updated edition has continued to offer an intelligent and readable text that offers a great deal to both students and those undertaking continuous professional development ... This edition continues to offer "thinking spaces" that encourage the reader to reflect upon and consider what they have learned in a most practical way. I wholeheartedly recommend this book and continue to be impressed with its high standards of presentation and scholarship'.
Emeritus Professor Tony Butterworth