Caring conversations are considered essential in psychiatric and mental health nursing.
However, some patients are more or less silent and rarely express themselves verbally. This …

Background: Patients with intellectual disability in psychiatric services are rarely asked
about their experiences when admitted to inpatient units. Aim: To enhance the …

This study aimed to develop and validate a scale for measuring the therapeutic
communication of nursing students. The scale development and evaluation study was …

The quality of phenomenological research in nursing has been a subject of long‐standing
debate and critique, but conversation took a particularly contentious turn following …

Abstract The philosophy of Maurice Merleau-Ponty, a unique blend of existentialism and
phenomenology, deserves to be better known in psychiatric-mental health nursing. This …

Nature-based therapies have a long history in mental health care. Beneficial effects have
been documented for nature-based therapies in a variety of other health care settings. The …

Background: Therapeutic communication (TC) between nursing students and patients is
essential for providing high-quality care. Purpose: This study aimed to introduce a …

This chapter draws on conceptual metaphor theory as a framework for viewing metaphor,
and focuses on willful movements of the hands and forearms as an object of research …

Purpose: The aim of the study was to determine the feelings, thoughts, and experiences of
inpatients in a psychiatric clinic about the therapeutic environment of the clinic. Design and …

Patients with mood disorders admitted to inpatient units experience severe emotional
distress. Psychiatric nurses are responsible for offering patients with mood disorders …