Shira Birnbaum

Therapeutic Communication in Mental Health Nursing

Aesthetic and Metaphoric Processes in the Engagement with Challenging Patients

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book introduces an innovative technique for therapeutic communication in mental health nursing, expanding the toolkit for nurses seeking to engage challenging patients who have not responded to more conventional therapeutic methods. Linking nursing communication to current research on metaphor and figuration, it is illustrated with accessible clinical examples. Therapeutic Communication in Mental Health Nursing is important reading for advanced-level practitioners, students, and researchers interested in communication and relationship-building in nursing.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 76
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. März 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 6mm
• Gewicht: 249g
• ISBN-13: 9781138244290
• ISBN-10: 1138244295
• Artikelnr.: 47813772

Autorenporträt

Shira Birnbaum is a psychiatric nurse, educator, writer, and artist. She graduated from Barnard College, Columbia University, and has worked with chronically and acutely mentally ill adolescents, adults, and homeless in a variety of institutional and outreach settings in the New York and Philadelphia metropolitan areas. She is a project manager at the Brookdale Center for Healthy Aging at Hunter College, City University of New York.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction
2. The Gestural Bridge
3. Metaphors and Representations
4. Garden Metaphors
5. The House as Grammatical Form
6. Rhythm and Regularity
7. Nursing Knowledge and Nursing Art: Implications for Learning and
Professional Training
8. Conclusion: Figurativity and Metaphoric Process in the Nursing
Toolkit