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Elsevier Health Sciences Key Debates in Psychiatric/Mental Health Nursing 1e by Edited by John R Cutcliffe Edited by Martin Ward
This book is unique because no other psychiatric/mental health nursing text has ever brought together opposing or contrasting views of the same issue and subsequently invited two seperate chapters to be written in order to articulate the different perspectives in the debate. Further no book has then followed up such a wide and thorough discussion by inviting a third party to offer commentary. The purpose of this book is to present a range of key issues that psychiatric/mental health nurses face. They are practice policy research and education related issues. The purpose then is to present the most complete balanced arguments possible in order to inform educate and stimulate psychiatric/mental health nurses.Furthermore the purpose of the book is to make psychiatric/mental health nurses more aware of the often uncertain nature of much of psychiatric/mental health nursing practice and knowledge. Psychiatric/mental health nursing is not characterised by black and white easily delineated issues and is perhaps characterised by various shades of grey. Indeed it is often stated as axiomatic that psychiatric/mental health nurses can be described as a broad church. Consequently the purpose of this book is to help psychiatric/mental health nurses appreciate this broad church be able to understand the various shades of grey be able to understand that often there are differing views inconclusive arguments and contentious debates and for this to influence their clinical practice. As the international range of contributors illustrates these debates (to a greater or lesser extent) are issues and debates that psychiatric/mental health nurses face the world over; these are matters of real international importance and significance. These issues have been touched upon and to a limited extent debated at psychiatric/mental health nursing conferences and to an even lesser extent within some psychiatric/mental health nursing journals. Thus they are real issues that many nurses are facing talking about and trying to resolve.key debates are presented with arguments from opposing viewpoints followed by a third-party commentary to give readers the necessary information to form their own viewwritten by a range of international authors from different countries across three continentsone of the first psychiatric/mental health nursing books to explore the pedagogical value of debateshow more