4 Year Nursing Degree Programme (BSc Cur) Mental Health Nursing
NU3P08 -Working with Enduring Mental Health Problems (5 ECTS)
Learning Outcomes
Following completion of this module the student should be able to:
- Understand of the experience of a service user with an enduring mental health problem
- Assess the needs of clients and their carers using appropriate assessment tools in the areas of psychological and social health
- Establish appropriate goals for a client who experiences enduring mental health problems.
- Discuss the use of interventions with clients that reduce the impact of voices and strange thoughts
- Discuss the principles of interventions to enhance problem solving, empowerment and communication
- Identify how research in enduring mental health problems can be applied to clinical practice
Module Learning Aims
This module builds on previous learning of the bio-psychosocial health needs of clients with enduring
mental health problems by integrating new knowledge and skills, which aim to assist clients and their
families, manage and reduce the impact of psychosis.
Emphasis will be placed on the nursing role in concept of recovery, self-experience, the role of
psychological and social interventions, cognitive behaviour therapy in psychosis and the application of
individual and family interventions for those who experience serious mental health problems.
Recommended Reading List
Essential Reading
- Gamble, C. and Brennan, G. (eds) (2006) Working with Serious Mental Illness: A Manual for Clinical Practice (2nd Ed). Edinburgh: Elsevier.
- Monahan, M., Doyle, L. & Keogh, B. ‘An introduction to psychosocial interventions’, In: J. Morrissey, B.
- Keogh & L. Doyle. (Eds) (2008) Psychiatric/Mental Health Nursing: An Irish perspective, Gill & Macmillan: Dublin
- Hornstein G. (2009) Agnes’s Jacket: A Psychologist’s Search for the Meanings of Madness. Rodale Inc, New York.
Recommended Reading
- Bradshaw T. and Mairs H. (2011) Helping people recover from psychosis. In Mental Health Nursing: An Evidence Based Introduction (Pryjmachuk S., ed), Sage, London, pp. 183-218.
- Coleman, R. and Smith, M. (1997) Working with Voices: Victim to Victor, Handsell.
- Pharoah F., Mari J., Rathbone J. and Wong W. (2006) Family intervention for schizophrenia. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews 4(4).
- Romme, M. and Escher, S. (2000) Making Sense of Voices: The Mental Health Professional's Guide to Working with Voice-hearers, London, Mind Publications.
- Saks, E.R. (2007) The Centre Cannot Hold. London: Virago.
- Van Meijel, B., van der Gaag, M., Sylvain, R. K. and Grypdonck, M. H. F. (2004) Recognition of early warning signs in patients with schizophrenia: A review of the literature. International Journal of Mental Health Nursing, 13(2), 107.
- Williams, S., Bradshaw, T. and Harris, N. (2002) Psychosocial interventions for people with schizophrenia, Palgrave Basingstoke.
* Additional readings will be given for each unit of learning.