Psychiatric Nursing
Ethical Strife
1st Edition
Published on 28. November 1997
Book
Paperback/Softback
384 pages
978-0-340-62523-1 (ISBN)
Description
Psychiatric nursing is fraught with more ethical dilemmas than any other area of nursing practice. Ethical dilemmas arise on a day-to-day, if not moment-to-moment basis. The need to confront, appreciate and attempt to resolve these dilemmas represents a major challenge for the practitioner, the educationalist and the researcher.
This edited text discusses a range of ethical issues that affect psychiatric nurses. The authors emphasise the direct experience of ethical dilemmas and also provide support from theory and research. Each chapter is prefaced by an introduction to reflect the editors' view of the particular issues involved. This book will appeal to a wide cross-section of nurses and those who educate and manage them. The real-life scenarios which accompany each chapter will bring ethics to life for every reader.
This edited text discusses a range of ethical issues that affect psychiatric nurses. The authors emphasise the direct experience of ethical dilemmas and also provide support from theory and research. Each chapter is prefaced by an introduction to reflect the editors' view of the particular issues involved. This book will appeal to a wide cross-section of nurses and those who educate and manage them. The real-life scenarios which accompany each chapter will bring ethics to life for every reader.
Reviews / Votes
This stimulating book explores the terrain of ethical conduct in psychiatric nursing and will be of interest to all mental health professionals with a critical approach to their work.Journal of Critical Psychology
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 248 mm
Width: 189 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-340-62523-1 (9780340625231)
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Schweitzer Classification
Persons
Content
Introduction: The Ethical Landscape
Section 1: Social relations
Freedom, psychiatry and responsibility
Society, disturbance and illness
The ethics of professionalised care
The role of the psychiatric nurse
The ethics of anti-psychiatry
Creating from chaos
Psychiatric nursing and the myth of altruism
Dissent
Section 2: Individual Struggles
Whose reality is it anyway?
Asserting difference
Working with women
Writing as a tool for reflective practice: sketches from an eating disorder unit
Doing and being - a Buddhist perspective on craving and addictions
The paradox of psychiatric nursing - making a difference by doing nothing
Trying to treat the system - dominance and negotiation in family therapy
Section 3: Ideology
Listening to clients
Clinical sociology and empowerment
Community psychology: a social action approach to psychological distress
Democracy in psychiatric settings: collectivism vs. individualism
Quality assurance: the ethical dimension of measuring work
The ethics of purchasing a self
Reframing the experience of AIDS: marginalisation, liminality and beyond
The wounded healer
Epilogue: the heart of the ethical matter.
Section 1: Social relations
Freedom, psychiatry and responsibility
Society, disturbance and illness
The ethics of professionalised care
The role of the psychiatric nurse
The ethics of anti-psychiatry
Creating from chaos
Psychiatric nursing and the myth of altruism
Dissent
Section 2: Individual Struggles
Whose reality is it anyway?
Asserting difference
Working with women
Writing as a tool for reflective practice: sketches from an eating disorder unit
Doing and being - a Buddhist perspective on craving and addictions
The paradox of psychiatric nursing - making a difference by doing nothing
Trying to treat the system - dominance and negotiation in family therapy
Section 3: Ideology
Listening to clients
Clinical sociology and empowerment
Community psychology: a social action approach to psychological distress
Democracy in psychiatric settings: collectivism vs. individualism
Quality assurance: the ethical dimension of measuring work
The ethics of purchasing a self
Reframing the experience of AIDS: marginalisation, liminality and beyond
The wounded healer
Epilogue: the heart of the ethical matter.