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Psychiatric (Mental Health) Nursing

Last update: 28 September 2007,
by Maureen Bell



LIST OF MENTAL HEALTH TOPICS

Aboriginal Mental Health

Administration and Policy in Mental Health

Anxiety Disorders, Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder, and Phobias

Art Collections and Art Therapy

Books By or About People with a Mental Illness

Child and Adolescent Mental Health

Consumers and Carers

Crisis Intervention and Emergency Services

Depression

Drug and Alcohol Abuse

Dual Diagnosis

Electroconvulsive Therapy (ECT)

Evidence-Based Mental Health

Forensic Psychiatry

Geriatrics and Geriatric Psychiatry

Guidelines
- to assist with clinical treatment issues

Health Promotion (Mental Health)

Housing for People with a Mental Illness
- includes problems of homelessness

Legislation

Mental Health (General mental health sites)

Personality Disorders

Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder

Primary Care - Mental Health

Psychiatric Drug Information

Psychiatric Nursing

PubMed (a free version of Medline) - and how to use it

Rating Scales

Rehabilitation and Recovery

Rural Mental Health

Schizophrenia and Other Psychotic Disorders

Statistics

Suicide and Self-Injurious Behaviour

Theorists and Theories

Violence, Aggression and Dangerous Behaviour

Links on this page are divided into Australian and overseas lists.

Lists of books and journal articles relating to psychiatric nursing can be found on my bibliographies and reading lists page.

Library members have online access to the following journals which may be of interest for this subject.

Archives of Psychiatric Nursing
Australian and New Zealand Journal of Mental Health Nursing
International Journal of Mental Health Nursing
Issues in Mental Health Nursing
Journal of Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Nursing
Journal of Neuroscience Nursing
Journal of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing

as well as many generalist nursing journals.

For practice guidelines relating to psychiatric nursing click here.

For general nursing material click here


Australia

Mental Health Nursing Education and Health Labour Force: Literature Review
Professor Michael Clinton, Ms Stephanie du Boulay, Associate Professor Michael Hazelton and Ms Barbara Horner, Joint University of Newcastle and Curtin University of Technology, September 2001. A research report from the National Review of Nursing Education.

Towards Assertive Community Care
A paper presented by Richard Lakeman at the North Queensland Sub-branch of the Australian and New Zealand College of Mental Health Nurses Winter Symposium, Rydges Capricorn International Resort, Yeppoon, 18-19 May, 2002.

Overseas

Atlas: Nurses in Mental Health 2007
A project of WHO headquarters (Geneva) and the International Council of Nurses (ICN). The project was initiated and supervised by Shekhar Saxena and coordinated by Thomas Barrett. Geneva, World Health Organization, 2007.

Community Psychiatric Nursing
Occasional Paper no. 40, October 1997, of the Royal College of Psychiatrists. The paper reviews the development of Community Mental Health Nursing and current issues relating to their role in the provision of care for those with mental illness.

From values to action: The Chief Nursing Officer‘s review of mental health nursing
Produced by the UK Department of Health, April, 2006.

Nursing Workload Measurement in Acute Mental Health Inpatient Units
A report for the Mental Health Research and Development Strategy, by Anthony J. O'Brien and others. Health Research Council of New Zealand, February 2002.

Rights, Relationships and Recovery: The Report of the National Review of Mental Health Nursing in Scotland
Edinburgh, Scottish Executive, April 2006