Mental Health Nursing Skills

Patrick Callaghan is a Mental Health Nurse and Chartered Health Psychologist. He is Professor of Mental Health Nursing at the University of Nottingham and Nottinghamshire NHS Healthcare Trust. Here he heads a research programme designed to enable people to recover from mental distress, leading on service evaluation, testing the effect of psychosocial interventions on health and wellbeing and investigating links between mental health nursing and service user outcomes. John Playle is Professor of Mental Health Nursing at the University of Manchester. He has published and presented on various aspects of mental health nursing and mental health workforce issues arguing strongly for a greater voice for service users in the design and delivery of mental health services and care. He is Chair of the national group: Mental Health Nurse Academics (UK). Linda Cooper is the Professional Head of Mental Health, Learning Disabilities and Psychosocial Care, Cardiff School of Nursing and Midwifery Studies, Cardiff University, UK. She is a strong advocate for the development of psychological mental health nursing skills and is published in the area of clinical supervision research. She is a member of the All Wales Senior Nurse Advisory Group for Mental Health and is the Vice Chair of the national group: Mental Health Nurse Academics (UK).