Understanding therapeutic relationships in mental health nursing

Rooney, Greg, McKenna Lawson, Stephen and Coffey, Michael 2025. Understanding therapeutic relationships in mental health nursing. Callaghan, Patrick, Dickinson, Tommy and Felton, Anne, eds. Mental Health Nursing Skills, United Kingdom: Oxford University Press, pp. 49-56. (10.1093/med/9780192864048.003.0006)

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Abstract

This chapter provides a discussion on relationship skills for mental health nurses. These skills are seen as fundamental to the profession and arise in the context of supporting policy, education, and research on and about practice, and in relation to places and types of work that mental health nurses are engaged in. High-quality relationships are valued by people using services and predict positive outcomes for them. Mental health nurses value therapeutic relationships as an important part of their work too. The chapter sets out a framework for establishing and maintaining relationships as a fundamental basis for intervening to help people. This recognizes that skilful and sensitive handling are required to enable people to trust nurses so that together the nurse and service user can find ways to help the person and keep them safe.

Item Type:	Book Section
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Schools > Healthcare Sciences
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
ISBN:	9780192864048
Last Modified:	14 Mar 2025 14:30
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/176825

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