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Advances in Contemporary Mental Health Nursing – Second Edition
Deadline for Papers: 2nd March 2009
A special issue of Contemporary Nurse Volume 34(1) - December 2009
ISBN 978-0-9775242-6-6 iv+124 pages softcover
Guest Edited by
Nicholas Procter, PhD, RN
School of Nursing and Midwifery
University of South Australia
Angela Frederick Amar, PhD, RN
William F Connell School of Nursing
Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA
and
Chang Kam Hock PhD, MN, BNSc (Hons)
Department of Nursing, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences
Universiti Malaysia Sarawak, Malaysia
Deadline for Manuscript Submissions: March 2, 2009
Papers are invited for this special issue of Contemporary Nurse (ISSN 1037-6178) devoted to advances in mental health nursing. The special issue will deal with a comprehensive range of issues, processes, theories and practices aimed at the advancement of mental health nursing. The editors welcome papers on the theory, practice and research related to mental health nursing across the lifespan.
Papers that provide insight into mental health nursing, the challenges faced by those involved, and the strategies required to build a better future for the specialty area are particularly welcome. They may address:
- Nurse led carer and consumer participation in mental health service design and delivery;
- Nurse led mental health promotion, prevention as well as intervention for those at risk of or experiencing mental illness;
- Forensic mental health nursing;
- Mental health nursing for a multicultural society;
- Mental health nursing in metropolitan, rural and remote clinical settings;
- Models of mental health assessment associated with a range of problems;
- Behaviours and needs with respect to physical, psychosocial and cognitive areas of human functioning;
- Suicide and self harm;
- Legal and ethical issues;
- Mental health of indigenous people;
- Mental health nurse education;
- Rehabilitation and recovery;
- Psychopharmacology;
- Adherence to treatment;
- Emergency mental health nursing;
- Philosophical and theoretical models of mental health nursing;
- Application of behavioural, psychoanalytic, humanistic, existential and post-modern theories of the self in mental health nursing;
- Socio-cultural, neuroscience and medical models of mental health nursing care;
- Therapeutic counselling and engagement strategies;
- Advanced therapeutic skills;
- Ethical decision making in mental health care;
- Clinical supervision;
- Practice development;
- Mental health nurse leadership;
- Mental health nurse practitioners.
All submissions will be subject to a double blind peer review. Authors should observe Author Guidelines and submit manuscripts electronically to editorial@contemporarynurse.com indicating in the cover email that it is for the Special Issue of Contemporary Nurse on Advances in Contemporary Mental Health Nursing.
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