Social Skills Training and Psychiatric Nursing

Owen Hargie, Patrick J. McCartan

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2025
• eBook ISBN: 9781040423035
• Topic: Medicine
• Subtopic: Caregiving

When it was originally published in 1986, this book was one of the few to be written on social skills and mental health specifically for nurses. Yet it is nurses who are uniquely placed to improve the skills of those with mental illness since it is they who often have most contact with patients or clients. This book examines the place of social skills training in the practice of psychiatric nursing. It provides relevant background to the evidence for limited social skills in psychiatric patients and the expanding role of the nurse and considers more practical elements such as selection and assessment of patients for a programme, goal-setting, role play, feedback, and group versus individual approaches. The book also analyses relevant skills themselves, such as nonverbal communication and being assertive. The book is aimed at both trained and student psychiatric nurses.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Original Title Page
• Original Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• Dedication
• Epigraph
• 1. Introduction
• 2. The Psychiatric Patient and SST
• 3. The Psychiatric Nurse and SST
• 4. A Model of Interpersonal Interaction
• 5. Designing an SST Programme
• 6. Implementing an SST Programme
• 7. Core Social Skills
• 8. Coping Skills
• 9. Responding Skills
• 10. SST Exercises
• 11. Conclusion
• References
• Author index
• Subject Index