Watkins, Peter.

Mental health practice : a guide to compassionate care / Peter N. Watkins. - 2nd edition. - Edinburgh : Elsevier Butterworth-Heinemann, 2009. - xv, 272 p. : ill.

Previous ed.: published as Mental health nursing. Oxford: Butterworth-Heinemann, 2001.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

This title covers the nature of human distress, social exclusion in the experience of distress, creative solutions to crises, a framework for the working alliance, dynamics of therapeutic care, person to person relationships, and much more.

Specialized.

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Psychiatric nursing.
Empathy.

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