The Tao, social constructionism and psychiatric nursing practice and research

Abstract

For the reader who is more accustomed to the standard form of academic papers, it seemed necessary to prepare the ground for a more discursive presentation that does not follow the conventions of, for example, using the third person or summarizing the paper initially. If conventions are simply customs agreed amongst people then the academic 'form' can be put in parentheses for this paper, for this journal, for...?-'...Scholarly Dissertations contain no more of the character of Taoist wisdom than does the typical wax museum' (Hoff 1982, p. 26).

The Tidal Model: developing an empowering, person‐centred approach to recovery within psychiatric and mental health nursing

“…Nursing has a longstanding attachment to the concept of caring through interpersonal relationships. Increasingly, however, this has been usurped by demands for ‘evidence’ of their utility within a postpositivist research paradigm (Stevenson 1996, Barker 1999). However, as Taylor (1994) has demonstrated, the dynamic processes involved when nurses and the people in their care, encounter and negotiate (through narrative) the experience of illness, can ultimately engender healing, and are experienced as such by people receiving nursing care.…”

Judgement days: developing an evaluation for an innovative nursing model

“…Integrating nursing with the services provided by the rest of the multidisciplinary team. For example, nurses present a nursing formulation of patient need that complements the medical formulation of need in the context of a patient review. Resolving problems and promoting mental health through narrative‐based interventions within individual sessions and group work (Tilley 1995, Webster et al . 1995, Stevenson 1996, Saunders 1997).…”

The Tidal Model: Developing a Person-Centered Approach to Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing

“…Although nursing has a longstanding attachment to the concept of caring through interpersonal relationships, increasingly this has been usurped by demands for "evidence" of their utility within a postpositivist research paradigm (Barker, 1999;Stevenson, 1996). As Taylor (1994) has demonstrated, however, the dynamic processes involved in nurses and the people in their care, encountering and negotiating (through narrative) the experience of illness, can ultimately engender healing, and are experienced as such by people receiving nursing care.…”