Management styles employed in the adult mental health service

Article Abstract:

Managers of mental health nursing services for adult patients in the inner cities need to anticipate job dissatisfaction before staff can reach a crisis point. Most mental health nurses need support from colleagues, a sense of teamwork, and reliable relations with managers to remain in this challenging type of work.

Inner cities

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Rear view

Article Abstract:

The author critiques the social stigma surrounding mentally ill persons, a subject recently illustrated by the insensitive headline used by a tabloid newspaper to announce the admittance of a celebrity to a mental health unit.

Mentally ill persons, Column, Mentally ill, Stigma (Social psychology)

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A guide to risk assessment

Article Abstract:

Risk assessment is the core of mental health practice, and can be used to inform clinical management and treatment strategies. Factors indicating suicide risk include clinical, psychiatric, social, and individual behaviors.

Methods, Prevention, Suicide, Suicide prevention, Health risk assessment, Psychiatric nursing

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