Critical Thinking and Reflection for Mental Health Nursing Students

Marc Roberts

• Publisher: Learning Matters
• Year: 2015
• ISBN:
  9781473954946
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Medicine
• Subtopic: Nursing

The ability to reflect critically is a vital nursing skill. It will help your students to make better decisions, avoid errors, identify good and bad forms of practice and become better at learning from their experiences. The challenges they will face as a mental health nurse are complex so this book breaks things down to the foundations helping them to build critical thinking and reflection skills from the ground up.

Key features:

· Covers the theory and principles behind critical thinking and reflection

· Explores the specific mental health context and unique challenges students are likely to face as a mental health nurse

· Applies critical thinking to practice but also to academic study, showing how to demonstrate these skills in assignments

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Publisher Note
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• Transforming Nursing Practice
• Foreword
• About the Author
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction
• Chapter 1 Critical Thinking
• Chapter 2 Critical Reflection
• Chapter 3 Developing Critical Mental Health Practice
• Chapter 4 Self and Values
• Chapter 5 Others and Difference
• Chapter 6 Interventions and Involvement
• Chapter 7 Academic Standards
• Chapter 8 Critical Evaluation
• Chapter 9 Critical Writing
• Glossary
• References
• Index