Experiences of Mental Health In-patient Care

Narratives From Service Users, Carers and Professionals

By: David Kennard (Editor), Sheila Grandison (Editor), Mark Trust, UK) Hardcastle (Editor), Leonard Fagin (Editor)

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Hardcover | 9 February 2016 | Edition Number 1

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Commended in the Mental Health category of the 2008 BMA Medical Book Competition.

This book offers an insight into the experience of psychiatric in-patient care, from both a professional and a user perspective. The editors highlight the problems in creating therapeutic environments within settings which are often poorly resourced, crisis driven and risk aversive.

The contributors argue that for change to occur there needs first of all to be a genuine appreciation of the experiences of those involved in the unpredictable, anxiety-arousing and sometimes threatening environment of the psychiatric ward. Each chapter comprises a personal account of in-patient care by those in the front line: people who have been admitted to a psychiatric ward; their relatives; or those that provide the care. These accounts are followed by two commentaries written from different perspectives, suggesting lessons that can be learnt to improve the quality of care.

Experiences of Mental Health In-patient Care will be useful for all mental health professionals, including mental health nurses, psychiatrists, clinical psychologists, occupational therapists, arts therapists, social workers and trainees, as well as service users and carers organisations.

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'On every page of the book I found in the accounts of users, carers and professionals gems that encapsulated so much of my own differing encounters with psychiatric in-patient care' "Rachel Perkins -- from the Foreword" 'So, halleluiah, in this enlightened book we have a bite-sized collection of intelligent, insightful, and absorbing contributions which refreshes the soul... The book not only challenges but informs and inspires...[I] intend to ensure that as many people as possible are aware of its value.' "Malcolm Rae -- from the Foreword"

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Illustrations	p. xv
Acknowledgements	p. xvi
List of contributors	p. xvii
Forewords	p. xxi
Introduction	p. 1
What is the book about?	p. 3
A brief narrative history of in-patient care in the United Kingdom	p. 8
Recent times	p. 17
Service users' experiences	p. 21
Feeling misunderstood	p. 23
Commentaries	p. 26
Bored on the ward	p. 33
Commentaries	p. 36
Feeling out of control	p. 41
Commentaries	p. 43
Restraint: a necessary evil?	p. 48
Commentaries	p. 51
Feeling alone: experiences of a female teenager	p. 56
Commentaries	p. 59
Feeling humiliated: experiences of a black man	p. 65
Commentaries	p. 66
Summary of the main issues in Section 2	p. 71
Carers' experiences	p. 75
Why us?	p. 77
Feeling invisible	p. 80
Commentaries	p. 82
No sex allowed	p. 88
Commentaries	p. 90
Frustrated and angry	p. 95
Commentaries	p. 98
Feeling grateful	p. 103
Commentaries	p. 106
Summary of the main issues in Section 3	p. 112
Mental health staff experiences	p. 115
Feeling helpless	p. 117
Commentaries	p. 120
First experience	p. 127
Commentaries	p. 128
Feeling unprepared	p. 133
Commentaries	p. 134
Mixed feelings	p. 139
Commentaries	p. 141
Feeling marginal	p. 146
Commentaries	p. 148
Feeling apprehensive	p. 153
Commentaries	p. 157
Taking control	p. 162
Commentaries	p. 165
Feeling frustrated	p. 172
Commentaries	p. 175
Taking it personally	p. 180
Commentaries	p. 183
Finding meaning	p. 188
Commentaries	p. 191
Summary of the main issues in Section 4	p. 197
Afterword	p. 203
Things you can do to make in-patient care a better experience	p. 205
References	p. 208
Index	p. 215
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Narratives From Service Users, Carers and Professionals

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