The ability to reflect critically is a vital nursing skill. It will help your students to make better decisions, avoid errors, identify good and bad forms of practice and become better at learning from their experiences. The challenges they will face as a mental health nurse are complex so this book breaks things down to the foundations helping them to build critical thinking and reflection skills from the ground up.

Key features:

* Covers the theory and principles behind critical thinking and reflection

* Explores the specific mental health context and unique challenges students are likely to face as a mental health nurse

* Applies critical thinking to practice but also to academic study, showing how to demonstrate these skills in assignments

About the Author
Dr Marc Roberts is a researcher, writer and lecturer with extensive and varied experience working in mental health practice and education. In addition to having clinical experience in mental health care he also has an academic background in philosophy. His research is therefore concerned with the way in which critical thinking, critical reflection and philosophy more generally can contribute to the theory and practice of contemporary mental health care.

Reviews
The set of books is an excellent resource for students. The series is small, easily portable and valuable. I use the whole set on a regular basis. -- Fiona Davies * Fiona Davies *



Book Information
ISBN 9781473913110
Author Marc Roberts
Format Hardback
Page Count 160
Imprint Learning Matters Ltd
Publisher Sage Publications Ltd
Weight(grams) 440g