Issues in mental health nursing
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Sexually abused girls are at risk for premature motherhood. The adolescents who become mothers often do not breastfeed. ⋯ Nurses need to be sensitive to potential sexual abuse histories among adolescent mothers. They should provide balanced and unbiased information to their adolescent patients about feeding methods and encourage adolescents to select the methods best for them.
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Issues Ment Health Nurs · Dec 2006
Conventionalized knowledge: mental health nurses producing clinical knowledge at intershift handovers.
Mental health nurses routinely hand over clinical knowledge at intershift reports. In the present study, field descriptions from prolonged fieldwork and transcripts of audio recordings of handovers were analysed discursively drawing on ethnomethodology and conversation analysis. ⋯ The interactional handovers were relatively more substantial but did also bring forth obvious signs of uncertainty regarding exact clinical situations. Handing over caused a silencing of the least powerful nurses' voices, generated uncertainty, and promoted knowledge about the patients' clinical situation that was not necessarily precise or up-to-date.
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Issues Ment Health Nurs · Jul 2006
ReviewThe legal definition of hate crime and the hate offender's distorted cognitions.
The legal definition of hate crime (i.e., the offender attacks the victim because of the victim's actual or perceived race, color, religion, disability, sexual orientation, or national origin) tends to be viewed as a causality description for the offense. This paper maintains that the "because" statement in the legal definition refers to the offender's criminal intent and distorted cognitions (e.g., blaming the victim and using different group memberships to justify and rationalize their hate crimes), rather than suggests that the different group memberships for the offender and the victim cause hate crime. Clarifying the distinction between the offender's mental state and reality has implications for understanding and conducting research on hate crime and clinical interventions with the victims.
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Issues Ment Health Nurs · Jun 2006
Appreciating what works: discovering and dreaming alongside people developing resilient services for young people requiring mental health services.
Within this paper we report on a study undertaken to identify resilient services for young people requiring mental health services in the United Kingdom. Whilst undertaking the study we faced issues related to determining what constitutes mental health services, and issues related to different disciplinary perspectives and discourses. ⋯ Nearly every participant felt that young people were not served well. However, the study focused on things that were working well and were being achieved.