Stories in Mental Health: Reflection, Inquiry, Action

Book info: Stories in Mental Health: Reflection, Inquiry, Action (Paperback, 144 pages) – Elsevier, 2021. Language: English.

Stories in Mental Health 2nd edition is an insightful collection of personal stories from a range of mental health consumers, carers and mental health nurse clinicians who openly share their experiences. Through listening and observing, this extraordinary resource offers nursing students and health professionals a unique perspective on what it is like to live with a mental health disorder, care for a family member with a mental health disorder or work within various mental healthcare settings.

Available as a print or eBook, this valuable resource builds empathy and understanding and provides examples of innovative approaches to care with a focus on reflection, inquiry and action. The teaching and learning strategies assist in developing skills, attitudes and appropriate responses when working in a range of mental healthcare settings. Most importantly, Stories in Mental Health provides a much-needed consumer voice to mental healthcare.

• All videos embedded within the eBook
• Part 1 Behind the scenes provides an overview of the structure of, and how to use, the resource.
  • Part 2 Setting the scene provides the foundational concepts for practice and includes seven video and audio stories that reinforce the concepts underpinning the treatment of mental illness.
    • Part 3 Stories from consumers, carers and clinicians presents 22 video and audio stories to provide insight into a range of mental health issues.
      • Reflection, inquiry and action provide the framework for the teaching and learning strategies for each story.
        • Weblinks and references are included for further reading and research.
        • Transcripts of all interviews are included in the back of the book
        • An eBook included in all print purchases

Powerfully told stories convey lessons that are remembered for life