Mental Health

A Person-centred Approach

Nicholas Procter, Rhonda L. Wilson, Helen P. Hamer, Denise McGarry, Mark Loughhead

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Year: 2022
• Print ISBN:
  9781108984621
• eBook ISBN:
  9781108968782
• Edition: 3
• Topic: Medicine
• Subtopic: Nursing

Mental Health: A Person-centred Approach equips students with the tools they need to provide exceptional person-focused care when supporting improved mental health of diverse communities.The third edition has been updated and restructured to provide a more logical and comprehensive guide to mental health practice. It includes new chapters on trauma-informed care, different mental health conditions and diagnoses, suicide and self-harm and the mental health of people with intellectual or developmental disabilities. Significant updates have been made to the chapters on the social and emotional well-being of First Nations Australians and mental health assessment. Taking a narrative approach, the text interweaves personal stories from consumers, carers and workers with lived experience. Each chapter contains 'Translation to Practice' and 'Interprofessional Perspective' boxes, reflection questions and end-of-chapter questions and activities to test students' understanding of key theories. Written by experts in the field, Mental Health remains an essential, person-centred resource for mental health students.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half-title page
• Acknowledgement of Country
• Title page
• Copyright page
• Foreword: Carer by Margaret O’Donnell
• Foreword: Consumer by Mary O’Hagan
• Contents
• About the authors
• Acknowledgements
• 1 Introduction to mental health and mental illness: Human connectedness and the collaborative consumer narrative
• 2 Trauma-informed care: Theory into practice
• 3 Māori mental health
• 4 The social and emotional well-being of First Nations Australians
• 5 Mental illness and narratives of experience
• 6 Assessment practices and processes in mental health
• 7 Person-centred care in suicide and self-harm distress
• 8 Mental health in the interprofessional context
• 9 Use of psychotropic medicines in mental health care
• 10 Legal and ethical aspects in mental health care
• 11 e-Mental health
• 12 Mental health and substance use
• 13 Nutrition, physical health and behavioural change
• 14 Mental health of people of immigrant and refugee backgrounds
• 15 Gender, sexuality and mental health
• 16 Intellectual and developmental disability
• 17 Mental health of children and young people
• 18 Mental health of older people
• 19 Rural and regional mental health
• 20 Learning through human connectedness on clinical placement: Translation to practice
• 21 Conclusions: Leadership and mentoring for person-centred mental health practice
• Index