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Forensic and non-forensic mental health nurses' approach to personality/psychopathic disorders: 'Clinical' versus 'management' perspectives
Bowen, Matt Mason, Tom
Bowen, Matt
Mason, Tom
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2013-03-01
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The aim of this study was to compare forensic and non-forensic mental health nurses' perceptions in relation to their clinical or management focus for those with a diagnostic label of personality/psychopathic disorder. The method employed was a postal survey with the distribution of 1490 information gathering schedules across the UK with a response rate of 41.9% of forensic mental health nurses and 76.4% non-forensic mental health nurses being achieved. The results indicate that both groups saw these diagnostic labels more in terms of a management focus (z =-3.79; p<0.01) rather than a clinical one (z =-3.53; p<0.01) and that the forensic group scored higher on the management measure (z =-17.31; p<0.01) in relation to the non-forensic nurses (z =-11.19; p<0.01). The implications for practice are that nurses who focus more on a management perspective are less likely to facilitate therapeutic change with service users.
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Bowen, M., & Mason, T. (2013). Forensic and non-forensic mental health nurses' approach to personality/psychopathic disorders: 'Clinical' versus 'management' perspectives. In A. Morel & M. Durand (Eds.), New Developments in Personality Disorders Research (pp. 75-94). Nova Science.
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9781624171185