A guide to compassionate care
By: Peter Watkins.
Contributors: Watkins, Peter.
Edition: 2nd ed.
Publisher: Elsevier/Butterworth-Heinemann
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Edinburgh; New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780750688819
Subjects: Psychiatric nursing; Psychiatric Nursing; Empathy; Nurse's Role; Nurse-Patient Relations
Notes: Rev. ed. of: Mental health nursing. c2001.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The nature of human distress; title: Social exclusion in the experience of distress; title: Transcultural issues and the experience of distress; title: Gender issues and the experience of distress; title: Creative solutions to crises; title: Working with risk; title: A person-centred approach to assessment; title: Creating pathways to recovery; title: Humanistic approaches to helping and healing; title: Beginnings and the working alliance; title: A framework for the working alliance; title: The working alliance as an enabling relationship; title: The working alliance with families and carers; title: Reluctance, resistance, and disengagement; title: Endings and the working alliance; title: Dynamics of therapeutic care; title: Intentional use of self in developmentally needed or reparative; title: Relationships; title: Person to person relationships; title: Spiritual dimensions of therapeutic care; title: The shadow side of helping; title: Personal development in professional education; title: Taking care of ourselves; title: Being a reflective practitioner.