BackgroundIn-patients in crisis report poor experiences of mental healthcare not conducive
to recovery. Concerns include coercion by staff, fear of assault from other patients, lack of …

Mental health inpatient units are complex and challenging environments for care and
treatment. Two imperatives in these settings are to minimize restrictive practices such as …

Staff members' engagement with patients is a critical element of inpatient psychiatric care,
essential to safety, the hospitalization experience and the development of a culture of care …

Nurses play a central role in the delivery of quality mental health services. Desired qualities
of a mental health nurse, in particular therapeutic relationships, have been described in the …

Many published books that comment on the medical model have been written by doctors,
who assume that readers have the same knowledge of medicine, or by those who have …

Nurse–patient therapeutic engagement on acute mental health wards is beneficial to service
users' outcomes and nurses' job satisfaction. However, engagement is not always fulfilled in …

How mental health nursing is differentiated from other disciplines and professions, and what
special contribution mental health nurses make to health services, is a question at the heart …

Aims Informal coercion is a frequently used form of communication among mental health
professionals to influence treatment outcomes. This study investigates the recognition …

Objectives The quality of therapeutic relationships in psychiatric services has a significant
impact upon the therapeutic outcomes for people diagnosed with a severe mental illness. As …

Offering mental health treatment in line with a recovery‐oriented practice has become an
objective in the mental health services in many countries. However, applying recovery …