Mental Health-Psychiatric Nursing Care

Description

Explore how models of practice impact on people with lived experience of mental illness as well as their families/carers. Students will be introduced to a number of theoretical approaches, which offer ways of understanding the nature of mental health, mental illness and mental disorders. The science and art of psychiatric/mental health nursing care will be explored. The subject will critique the historical development of psychiatric/mental health nursing, as well as contemporary discourses with reference to the psychological, social, bio/medical, cultural and spiritual explanations of mental illness and disorder. Topics include: - Mental Health - Mental Health Laws/Assessments - Anxiety - Affective Disorders - Psychosis - Myths/Management - Eating Disorders - Trauma/Personality Disorders - Substance Use Disorders