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Mental and behavioural state examination: Theory into Practice - A Nurse's Perspective on Psychiatric Assessment
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About Mental And Behavioural State Examination: Theory
Product Description The ability to carry out assessments of mental and behavioural state is a useful and required skill for those who work within the healthcare industry, as well as in other professions where there is a routine requirement to work with vulnerable members of the public; this includes nurses and therapists of all specialties and backgrounds, midwives, care assistants, doctors, social workers, school teachers and emergency services, including paramedics and police officers (among numerous other professional groups). This book attempts to break down each aspect of the assessment using psychiatric terminology, definitions and examples in order to provide the reader with a comprehensive guide in how to carry out mental and behavioural state examinations (MBSEs) which is both detailed and concise. It is an essential handbook for those novices and more experienced clinicians alike, who wish to have a concise directory of some of the basic and core theoretical principles which underpin the process of non-medical psychiatric assessment in the 21st century. Review "This guide to psychiatric assessment has arrived in good time. Every few decades the field of mental state examination needs a new view, a re-assessment of past wisdom and a consideration of emergent cultural beliefs/behaviours, with an eye to identifying new phenomena. Whittard's chapter on 'identity' could not have been written by earlier authorities. This is a scholarly work, well referenced and rounded. It will be well received by people who want to look behind the fMRI and find the individual." - Prof. Saxby Pridmore (Professor of Psychiatry, University of Tasmania, Australia. Author of 'The Psychiatric Interview. A Guide to History Taking and the Mental State Examination'). "This book will provide you with some contemporary approaches and theories to assist you in undertaking a mental health assessment...It is written in a non-jargon, straightforward approach and reflects current thinking on adult mental health assessment. I believe its format and content will be a valuable source of information as well as an interesting read, to prepare and update your assessment skills." - David Robson MA Ed RCNT RMN RGN RNC PGDip PGCE (Senior Lecturer of Mental Health Nursing, United Kingdom). About the Author Tim Whittard is a mental health nurse with specialist interests in psychiatric intensive care and older age psychiatry. He began working for the NHS in 2004 and qualified as a mental health nurse in 2008 after receiving the 'Gill Hek Award for Nursing Research' alongside his diploma. He has since maintained contact with the grassroots of his profession, working as a front-line clinician in inpatient care in the roles of both staff nurse and charge nurse. He has also worked as a lecturer for the University of the West of England and the University of Worcester, covering topics ranging from the assessment of mental and behavioural state, the management of violence and aggression in hospital and care settings, care planning, risk assessment and management, memory assessment, the transition from student nurse to qualified nurse, and also the application of clinical skills. Additionally, he also works as a health and safety trainer in the private sector in the UK and has worked internationally in the role of a specialist consultant, applying knowledge of healthcare-related industry insights in the UK to assist clients in the USA and Canada in exploring opportunities to promote new biopharmaceuticals in the European marketplace. Interests and qualifications in several other subjects aside from mental health nursing, most notably; parapsychology, philosophy of science, theoretical principles of hypnotherapy, artificial intelligence, the emerging applications of medicinal cannabis and also zoology/cryptozoology (with a specific focus on the study of anomalous predatory cats in Britain). He has written and published several essays relating to mental health, nursing scien
