The Reverse Effect of Cognitive and Mental Health on Physical Activity in Individuals With Mental Health Conditions: A New Perspective for Nursing Interventions
Contextualising Violence Research in Mental Health Care: A Reflection From Indonesia
Skills and Resources of Psychiatric Mental Health Nurses to Support a Long and Uncertain Recovery Journey: A Grounded Theory Approach
The importance of recovery-focused practice is widely recognised. However, limited attention has been paid to how nurses continue to engage reflectively and creatively in long-term care settings.
Assessing Suicide Risk in Children Affected by HIV/AIDS With the House-Tree-Person Drawing Test
Suicide is a serious public health concern, particularly among Chinese children affected by HIV/AIDS. However, these risks are often subtle and obscured by social desirability bias and cultural stigma. This study aims to evaluate the predictive validity of the House-Tree-Person (HTP) drawing test in assessing suicide risk among children affected by HIV/AIDS.
Identifying Indigenous People's Grieving and Funeral Practices as Components for Establishing a Grief Support Framework: An Integrative Literature Review
Grieving and funeral practices form an integral component of the culture of indigenous people. Although studies on specific indigenous grief support frameworks could not be found, the authors did find certain studies on the grieving and funeral practices of indigenous people. The study identified a lack of integrative literature reviews on these practices. A review was therefore needed to enable a comprehensive overview that would guide the establishment of an indigenous grief support framework.
Supporting Family Caregivers as a Core Task of Mental Health Nursing
Statistical Pathways Toward Ethical Big Data in Personalised Mental Health Care
Recent discussion on Ethical Big Data for Personalised Mental Health Nursing, highlights the pressing requirement to weave data ethics into mental health practice in relation to P4 medicine and systems thinking. Yet the bridge from ethical obligations to measurable methods is largely missing. The enhancement of statistical literacy is susceptible to culture shocks, which will then promote the development route of data-driven innovation toward humanistic and equitable mental health care.
Cultural Empowerment in Community Mental Health: Lessons From Developing a Locally Adapted Framework for Rural Indonesia
Balancing Innovation and Humanism: An Ethical Debate on AI and VR in Psychiatric Nursing Education
Artificial intelligence (AI) and virtual reality (VR) technologies are increasingly integrated into psychiatric nursing education, presenting both significant opportunities for innovation and profound risks of dehumanisation.
Agitation and Aggression in Psychiatric Care: Insights From Nursing Observations in a Turkish Mental Health State Hospital
Nursing observations are a critical component of psychiatric services, playing a key role in ensuring patient safety and maintaining high standards of care.
Associations Between Family Function and Mental Health Service Engagement Among Severe Mental Disorders in China
Better mental health service engagement (MHSE) was identified to be an effective way to prevent relapse and worsening of the severe mental disorders (SMDs). There is a lack of evidence on the relationships between family function and MHSE among people with SMD.
Reimagining Allyship and Narrative in Mental Health Nursing: Extending the Wicked Allegory
'I Hate Myself and I Want to Die': Untreated Psychosis, Self-Stigma, and the Ethical Imperative for Early Therapeutic Engagement in Schizophrenia
Artificial Intelligence and Mental Health: Toward a Pancasila-Based Ethical Foundation for AI-Counselling Practice in Indonesia
Recovery Philosophy, Mental Health Nursing Research and the Challenge of Paternalism in Research Ethics Committees
Predictors of Personal Recovery Among People With Mental Illness in the Chinese Community: A Cross-Sectional Study
Personal recovery, a dynamic process of rebuilding identity and purpose beyond mental illness, remains underexplored within China's mental health system, which predominantly prioritizes clinical recovery.
Effect of Cognitive-Behavioural Strategies on Self-Efficacy, Sense of Coherence and Psychological Ownership Among Nurses Caring for Children With Autism Spectrum Disorder: A Randomised Control Trial
Nurses caring for children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) encounter unique challenges that can affect their psychological well-being and professional efficacy. Cognitive-Behavioural Strategies (CBS) are a promising approach to bolster the psychological resources of these nurses.
Miracles Are Waiting for You
This reflection uses poetry to shed light on the timeless resilience and spiritual cadence of our four seasons, using them as metaphors for the lived experiences of individuals navigating mental health challenges and the often unseen emotional labour of psychiatric and mental health professionals. Each stanza evokes a season not only as a backdrop but also as a psychological landscape-embodying phases and states of hope and perseverance, challenges and uncertainties, as well as quiet renewal and loud survival. For clinical practitioners, especially allied mental health professionals, the piece serves as both an affirmation and a gentle reminder: recovery does not always arrive with grand gestures, but may dwell in the most devilishly tiny and inconspicuously familiar everyday moments of attention and connection, agency and patience, as well as grace and care. It invites clinicians to remain attuned to the quiet, often deeply personal 'miracles' unfolding within their care-moments of resilience, clarity, or simple presence-and to recognise their role in holding space for such transformations. Grounded in recovery-oriented values, the poem aims to underline that the healing process, especially in mental health, is often iterative and nonlinear; and that sometimes, the most meaningful changes occur when they are sought and seen, found and held, embraced and treasured-even if only slowly, quietly, and privately.
Emotional Blackmail and Depression Among Taiwanese Nurses: A Cross-Sectional Study Using the Stress Process Model With Coping Strategies as Mediator and Social Support as Moderator
Emotional blackmail is a persistent workplace stressor that can negatively influence nurses' psychological well-being.
From Circuits to Sessions: Linking 'Chemical Imbalance' to Rapid Tele-Psychotherapy With Music
Progress in neuroimaging research has provided insight into the neurobiological mechanism underlying depression, specifically motivational anhedonia, which compromises patients' ability to initiate goal-directed action. Breit et al. formerly, using the same cohort versus controls; correlations with reduced motivation were observed within superiority SLF and precuneus and authors emphasized that such results should pave the way to biomarkers in drug grounded development.
Expanding the Perspective of Suicide Prevention for Young Persons: The Role of Mental Health Professionals in Higher Education Settings
The purpose of this letter is to encourage the observation of Sun et al., the stages of suicide more broadly and discussing overlooked factors, most notably that as stressors for college students (e.g., academic pressures, relationship terminations, etc.). The place of mental health workers in institutions of higher education is highlighted. Furthermore, preventive and remedial measures are discussed.
Single-Session Therapy as a Preventive Follow-Up After the House-Tree-Person Drawing Test: Expanding Interventions for Suicide-Risk Children Affected by HIV/AIDS
Clinical and Subclinical Narcissism as Risk Factors for Suicidality: Revisiting Conceptual Links
Narcissism-as either clinical or subclinical-has long been discussed as a risk factor for suicide. Whereas traditional studies link narcissism with grandiosity, entitlement, and deficits in empathy, newer research has emphasized the intricate interactions among this construct and vulnerability to mental illness, emotion dysregulation, as well as the effects of social stress. The inconsistency in the impingement of narcissistic features on suicidal ideation highlights for us rethink and reformulate our conceptual understanding for therapies.
Mental Health Nurses' Experience of Trauma: A Qualitative Descriptive Study
Mental health nurses can experience trauma in their personal and work lives; however there is no prior qualitative research describing these experiences.
Verbal Violence and Character Assassination: The Silent Epidemic in Mental Health Issues
Growing Older, Growing Anxious: Recognising the Hidden Burden of Anxiety Disorders Among Older Adults
As global populations age, anxiety disorders in older adults are emerging as a hidden yet consequential public health challenge. Despite a sharp rise in total burden, these disorders remain under-recognized at the individual, clinical, and policy levels.
Turning Points in the Shadows: Critical Incidents Influencing Help-Seeking Behaviours and Duration of Untreated Psychosis in Individuals With Schizophrenia
The extended duration of untreated psychosis (DUP) in individuals with schizophrenia represents a significant challenge in mental healthcare delivery, potentially compromising treatment outcomes and recovery trajectories. Understanding the critical incidents that influence help-seeking behaviours remains crucial yet understudied from patients' perspectives.
From Care to Motion: Physical Activity Advice in Mental Health Nursing Practice-A Cross-Sectional Observational Study
Despite the well-documented physical and mental health benefits of physical activity, people experiencing mental health challenges remain significantly less active than the general population. Mental health nurses are well positioned to promote physical activity in mental healthcare, yet little is known about their knowledge, attitudes and practices in this area, especially in Germany.
Nurses' Experiences Caring for Inpatients Undergoing Psychiatric Care Following Harmful Methamphetamine Use: An Interpretative Phenomenological Study
Methamphetamine is a potent stimulant that has been associated with stigma and serious physiological/psychiatric adverse effects. Harms associated with methamphetamine use have increased, placing demand on Australia's hospital services.
