Troubling 'insight': Power and possibilities in mental health care

Journal of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 416-422

  Hamilton, B ^a   Roper, C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Consumer perspective; Critique; Foucault; Insight; Mental status assessment; Power

Indexed keywords

AWARENESS; BEHAVIOR; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; DECISION MAKING; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HUMAN; INTUITION; KNOWLEDGE; MENTAL DISEASE; NURSE ATTITUDE; NURSE PATIENT RELATIONSHIP; NURSING; NURSING ASSESSMENT; NURSING THEORY; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PHILOSOPHY; PSYCHIATRIC NURSING; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; PSYCHOMETRY; REVIEW; SELF EVALUATION; SOCIOLOGY;

ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; AWARENESS; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; HUMANS; INTUITION; JUDGMENT; KNOWLEDGE; MENTAL DISORDERS; NURSE'S ROLE; NURSE-PATIENT RELATIONS; NURSING ASSESSMENT; NURSING THEORY; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PHILOSOPHY, NURSING; POSTMODERNISM; POWER (PSYCHOLOGY); PSYCHIATRIC NURSING; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; PSYCHOMETRICS; SELF ASSESSMENT (PSYCHOLOGY); SOCIOLOGY, MEDICAL;

EID: 33748357290     PISSN: 13510126     EISSN: 13652850     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2850.2006.00997.x     Document Type: Article

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