Description
Book SynopsisMost specialist mental health care is provided by nurses who use face to face helping skills with a wide range of people in a variety of contexts. This book puts therapeutic skills at the heart of the nurseâs role, with one central aim: to equip you with knowledge to use in your practice, thus improving your ability to deliver care.
This book:
â Will enable you to strengthen your core therapeutic skills and broaden your knowledge to include other practical therapeutic approaches
â Collates in one place information on a range of therapeutic approaches, from person centred counselling, motivational interviewing and solution focused approaches, through to day to day skills of challenging unhelpful thoughts, de-escalating difficult situations, working with families, and problem solving
â Demonstrates application of theory to practice through a variety of practical examples
â Features reader activities to facilitate personal growth and l
Table of Contents
Part 1: Foundations for practice
1. Conducting assessment interviews
2. Clinical supervision
Part 2: Therapeutic skills
3. Person centred counselling
4. Using a solution focused approach
5. Motivational interviewing
6. Using the skills of problem solving
7. The skill of offering psychoeducation
8. Skills to challenge unhelpful thoughts
9. Validation skills applied to people with dementia
10. Preventing relapse
11. Behavioural management/activation
12. Mindfulness
13. De-escalating volatile situations
Part 3: Working with families and groups
14. Working systemically with families in mind
15. Working with groups
16. Family intervention in psychosis
