Mental health nurses’ contributions to community mental health care: An Australian study

Community mental health nurses, primary care and the National Service Framework for Mental Health.

The National Service Framework for Mental Health focuses on the mental health needs of adults up to the age of 65. Susan Plummer and Richard Gray discuss standard two by focusing on depression.

Australian mental health reform for perinatal care.

Sacrificing the personal to the professional: community mental health nurses.

BACKGROUND The study of stress in mental health nurses has almost always focused on factors intrinsic to their job roles and has neglected the interaction between work and home roles, which may also be a source of stress. Moreover, role theory has not provided an adequate account of either personal or occupational change, especially when this results from the experience of stress. METHODS Twe...

An Approach to Community Mental Health

a relevance extending into more general fields. The headings include?A Community Approach to Preventive Psychiatry, The Psychology of Pregnancy, Early Mother-Child Relationships, and Mental Health Aspects of Family Life. Building on a concept from an earlier work (Emotional Problems of Early Childhood, p. 156) he pays attention to pathogenic forces in the community, together with the traditiona...

The guide to mental health for nurses in primary care

Armstrong rightly acknowledges this subject's importance and her assembled writers have contributed chapters that are both informative and interesting.