Developed for Australian nursing students, Contemporary Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing is a lived experience, contemporary, evidence-based, culturally competent, authoritative and comprehensive resource. It offers a fully integrated perspective which most importantly includes the voice of people with mental illness.

With a consumer voice was prominent in each chapter this text is designed to enhance students ability to become a therapeutic, nonjudgmental, competent and confident psychiatric/mental health nurse.

It is mapped to the NMBA Registered Nurse Standards for Practice.

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Key Terms alert you to the vocabulary used in the chapter. The page numbers indicate where the term is defined.
Learning Outcomes indicate what important information or skills you will have gained after studying the chapter.
Lived Experience reflects the ‘lived-experience’ voice of the consumer, which discusses mental health issues that health consumers have encountered.
Developing Cultural Competence boxes are an important link to the cultural forces that influence the experience and expression of mental disorders and pose critical thinking Questions.
Evidence-Based Practice boxes show how research evidence shapes the plan of care for a particular client. Critical thinking questions follow each vignette.
What Every Nurse Should Know boxes emphasise the importance of recognising mental health problems and applying these practices in all nursing situations
Collaborative Care boxes emphasise the value of including the family in psychiatric-mental health care. This feature provides key topics to discuss with families, allowing them to understand the characteristics of the disorder.
Practice Example provides real-life scenarios that students may encounter and point out the challenges involved
Mental Health in the Media features depict how mental illness in the media affects our attitudes and behaviour. They also highlight the successes and difficulties faced by those in the media
How I Will Use My Mental Health Skills and Why I Chose to Work in Mental Health present the personal stories of those who work in mental health nursing
Self-Awareness boxes engage the reader in a process of introspection and self-questioning that is essential to the therapeutic use of self.
Diagnostic Features provide diagnostic criteria for mental health disorders, followed by descriptive text
Communication boxes offer sample dialogues between nurses and clients. In addition, they provide the rationale for at least two different but helpful alternatives. This feature is designed to provide students with a beginning repertoire of communication interventions useful when interacting with mental health clients
Nursing Care Plans are included in the chapters dealing with specific disorders. They represent a different way to view care for clients diagnosed with specific mental disorders according to the DSM-5
Your Assessment Approach and Your Intervention Strategies present clinically-relevant strategies in a succinct, user-friendly format. Your Assessment Approach contains lists of assessment points. Your Intervention Strategies list specific nursing intervention strategies along with their rationales.

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