This book is unique, because no other psychiatric/mental health
nursing text has ever brought together 'opposing' or contrasting
views of the same issue, and subsequently invited two seperate
chapters to be written in order to articulate the different
perspectives in the debate. Further, no book has then followed up
such a wide and thorough discussion by inviting a third party to
offer commentary. The purpose of this book is to present a range of
key issues that psychiatric/mental health nurses face. They are
practice, policy, research and education related issues. The
purpose then is to present the most complete, balanced arguments
possible in order to inform, educate, and stimulate
psychiatric/mental health nurses. Furthermore the purpose of the
book is to make psychiatric/mental health nurses more aware of the,
often, uncertain nature of much of psychiatric/mental health
nursing practice and knowledge. Psychiatric/mental health nursing
is not characterised by 'black and white', easily delineated
issues, and is perhaps characterised by various 'shades of grey'.
Indeed, it is often stated as axiomatic that psychiatric/mental
health nurses can be described as a 'broad church'. Consequently,
the purpose of this book is to help psychiatric/mental health
nurses appreciate this broad church, be able to understand the
various 'shades of grey', be able to understand that, often, there
are differing views, inconclusive arguments and contentious debates
and for this to influence their clinical practice. As the
international range of contributors illustrates, these debates (to
a greater or lesser extent) are issues and debates that
psychiatric/mental health nurses face the world over; these are
matters of real international importance and significance. These
issues have been touched upon, and to a limited extent, debated at
psychiatric/mental health nursing conferences and, to an even
lesser extent, within some psychiatric/mental health nursing
journals. Thus, they are real issues that many nurses are facing,
talking about and trying to resolve.key debates are presented with
arguments from opposing viewpoints, followed by a third-party
commentary, to give readers the necessary information to form their
own view written by a range of international authors from different
countries across three continents one of the first
psychiatric/mental health nursing books to explore the pedagogical
value of debate
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