Chapter 6: The Person Who Has a Mental Illness
Overview:
- Explores the concept of the carer and the mental illness
- Describes how to recognise a mental illness
- Describes schizophrenia
- Explains how to perform a caring intervention
- Describes other psychotic disorders
- Explains how to use the solution-focused behavioural change model
- Outlines how to access mental health services
Description:
This chapter instructs readers on how to recognise the indications that a person is becoming mentally ill, assist clients with psychotic illnesses, understand the features of personality disorders, use a range of effective strategies when dealing with unco-operative behaviours and to explain how to access the mental health system.
Topics:
- Learning objectives
- Chapter references
- Introduction
- The carer and mental illness
- Recognising mental illness
- Schizophrenia
- Caring interventions
- Other psychotic disorders
- Using the solution-focused behavioural change model
- Personality problems and personality disorders
- Caring interventions
- Learning activity 6.1 — The “I” statement
- Learning activity 6.2 — Why your client had difficulty cooperating
- Using the solution-focused model
- Behavioural change model
- Accessing mental health services
- Learning activity 6.3 — Discovering psychiatric services
- Conclusion
- Chapter summary
Speaker / Author:
Bernadette Keane
Bernadette is a highly experienced nurse educator who lectured for nine years in the psychiatric nursing programs conducted at Royal Park Hospital in Melbourne, Australia. In addition to psychiatry her clinical background and qualifications include medical, surgical, midwifery and infant welfare areas of care. In 1982, as a Kellogg Nursing Fellow, she studied at the University of California, San Francisco. Since then she has published journal articles and textbook chapters on health care and professional issues. In 1986 Bernadette launched her private practice, called Continuing Education Consultation, and from 1992 to 1998 she was president of the association called Nurses in Independent Practice. In 1992, together with Rhonda Goodwin and Jennifer Richmond, Bernadette published a nursing history book entitled Mum and Me and T.L.C.
Carolyn Dixon
Carolyn was, from 1995 to early 1999, the psychiatric clinical nurse consultant in the emergency department of St Vincent’s Hospital in Melbourne, Australia. Her work there began as a project to study the effectiveness of this innovative role. Carolyn is a trained psychiatric and general nurse who has worked in hospital, education and community settings both in Australia and overseas. It was while she was working as a nurse teacher at Royal Park Hospital in Melbourne that she first worked with Bernadette Keane. Carolyn has presented a number of conference papers on aspects of psychiatric care. Her qualifications include a Bachelor of Arts (Social Science), a Graduate Diploma in Health Education and a Master of Nursing.
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