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October 2008	Volume 14 - Issue 1

Volume: 14 Issue: 1	Final Editorial Violence Experience and Psycho-Social Family Adaptation of Vietnamese Refugee Women in the U.S. Exploring Relationship of Psychotropic Medications to Fall Events in an Inpatient Geriatric Psychiatric Population Examination of DSM-IV-TR Criteria and Addiction Criteria for Benzodiazepine Dependence Among a Random Sample of Seniors Is Nail Biting Associated with Co-Morbid Psychiatric Disorders and Children with ADHD and Psychiatric Disorders in Their Parents? Perceived Social Support in Rural Youth Screening Tools for Postpartum Depression: Validity and Cultural Dimensions Books Received To Be Treated Like a Person: The Role of the Psychiatric Nurse in Promoting Consumer and Carer Participation in Mental Health Service Delivery Changing Their Minds: Using Clinical Experience to ‘Convert’ Undergraduate Nursing Students to Psychiatric Nursing Implementing Clinical Supervision for Psychiatric Nurses – The Importance of Education Meeting the Needs of People Experiencing a Mental Illness in General Health Care Settings: An Urgent Imperative How Do We Know It Works? Mental Health Service Evaluation, Recovery and Routine Outcome Measurement
May 2008	Volume 13 - Issue 3

Volume: 13 Issue: 3	Ego et Arcadia How Family Members of a Person Suffering from Mental Illness Experience Psychiatric Care The Responsibility of Review: Guidelines to Promote Professional Courtesy and Commitment through the Peer Review Process Negotiating the Relationship in Higher Degree by Research Studies – Part 1 – Tips for Supervisees Negotiating the Relationship in Higher Degree by Research Studies – Part 2 – Tips for Supervisees Book Reviews - Adjust your Brain; Psychotherapies for the Psychoses
January 2008	Volume 13 - Issue 2

Volume: 13 Issue: 2	Guest Editoral: Mental Health Problems in Prisons: A need for a New Approach The Training Needs of Nurses Undertaking Self-Harm Assessments of Children Admitted to Pediatric Wards Religiosity and Depression over Time in College Students Clinical Supervision: An Exploration of its Origins and Definitions Book Review - Women and Psychiatric Treatment - A Comprehensive Text and Practical Guide Book Review - The Self in Health and Illness: Patients, professionals and narrative Identity Book Review - Experiences of Mental Health In-patient Care
September 2007	Volume 13 - Issue 1

Volume: 13 Issue: 1	Guest Editorial “Another call to arms” Risk factors for cardiovascular disease in patients with Anorexia Nervosa Hope: More Than a Refuge in a Storm A Concept Analysis using the Wilson Method and the Norris Method Expressed Emotion and the Inpatient Psychiatric Facility - Expressed Emotion and The Inpatient Psychiatric facility with low functioning psychiatric patients Service user Involvement in mental health assessment: comparing people’s experiences of mental health triage assessments with theoretical perspectives on user involvement
May 2007	Volume 12 - Issue 3

Volume: 12 Issue: 3	Obituary: Paul William Shelley Cognitive-attiudinal aspects of key-worker’s talk about their patients in forensic psychiatric institutions. (vol. 12: 2, page 1447). Coping with Stroke: Psychological and Social Dimensions in U.S. Patients Psychiatric Nursing and Mental Health Funding: Educational games for mental health professionals: a Cochrane review Towards understanding the self-perception of people with a psychotic illness who use illicit substances and have a history of disengagement from mental health services: Qualitative research Measuring Inpatient Psychiatric Environments: Psychometric Properties of the Practice Environment Scale-Nursing Work Index (PES-NWI)
Jan-Feb-March-April-May 2007	Volume 12 - Issue 2

Volume: 12 Issue: 2	Our first child was incompatible with life: Understanding Miscarriage as a lived experience. Suffer no more in silence: Challenging the myths of women’s mental health in childbearing Appreciating the importance of history: A brief historical overview of mental health, mental health nursing and education in Australia. Cognitive-attitudinal aspects of key-worker’s talk about their patients in forensic psychiatric institutions Mental Health Nursing Roles and Functions in Acute Inpatient Units: Caring for People with Intellectual Disability and Mental Health problems – A Literature Review Foundation Congress of HORATIO - European Psychiatric Nurses Perspectives on Rehabilitation and Dementia: Edited by Mary Marshall - London: Jessica Kingsley Publishers, ISSBN 13 978 1 84310 286 1 IJPNR Journal Editorial:The Proposed New Mental Health Act: will it make things worse or better?
Sept - Oct - Nov - Dec 2006	Volume 12 - Issue 1

Volume: 12 Issue: 1	The Efficacy of Family Intervention in Adolescent Mental Health. The Association between Meaning of Caregiving, Perceived Social Support and Level of Depression of Taiwanese Caregivers of Mentally Ill Patients Rethinking the benefits of an adapted version of ‘Alzheimer Cafe’ for individuals with Alzheimer’s and their partners. The Centre for Psychiatric Nursing Research and Practice: Promoting Excellence in Psychiatric Nursing IJPNR Book Review: “Asylum to Action –Paddington Day Hospital - Therapeutic Communities and Beyond”. IJPNR Book Review: Evolving Psychosis. International Society for the Psychological Treatments of the Schizophrenias and Other Psychoses IJPNR Notice: What you need to know about submitting a Manuscript: IJPNR Editorial: Mental Illness and Community Care: A Case for Research.
May-June-July- Aug 2006	Volume 11 - Issue 3

Volume: 11 Issue: 3	The Training and Development Workshops: Promoting Cultural Change within Mental Health Nursing Culturally Sensitive Mental Health Care: a Module for 21st Century Education and Practice Nursing Clinical Developments Units – A Strategy to Promote the Relationship Between Practice and Academia. Assessment of Acutely Mentally Ill Patient Outcomes in an Ethnically Diverse Population* Experiences of Parenting Young People with a Diagnosis of Asperger Syndrome: A Focus Group Study. IJPNR Editorial - "Another call to Arms!" IJPNR Book Review Cognitive Remediation Therapy for Schizophrenia Theory and Practice “A Casebook of Cognitive Behavior Therapy for Command Hallucinations” IJPNR New Board Members
Jan - Feb - March - April 2006	Volume 11 - Issue 2

Volume: 11 Issue: 2	What does Phenomenology Offer to the Study of Care-Giving? Research Validation of Misguided Entitlement The Influence of Social Support on Caregiver Coping. Cholesterol Concentrations in Patients with Anorexia Nervosa and in Healthy Controls. IJPNR Book Review :Shell Shock to PTSD Military Psychiatry from 1900 to the Gulf War IJPNR Book Review: A Culture of Enquiry IJPNR Editorial: Obscure Heroes 2006 Call for Papers
Sept-Oct-Nov-Dec 2005	Volume 11 - Issue 1

Volume: 11 Issue: 1	The Meaning of Incontinence in Dementia Care Advocating for the Rights of the Mentally Ill: A Global Issue Clinical – Academic Partnerships Research: Converting the Rhetoric into Reality Southeast Asian Refugee Children: A School-Based Mental Health Intervention IJPNR Book Review: “Guide to Mental Health for Families and carers of people with intellectual disabilities”. IJPNR Book Review: Helping Adolescents and Adults to Build Self-Esteem IJPNR Book Review: New Approaches to Preventing Suicide IJPNR Editorial - The More Things Change the More They Stay The Same?
May - June - July - Aug 2005	Volume 10 - Issue 3

Volume: 10 Issue: 3	Disseminating Nursing Knowledge – A Guide to Writing for Publication Back to the future: making a case for including the history of mental health nursing in nurse education programmes Psychiatric Nurses and Undergraduate Nursing Students’ Perceptions of Preceptorship in the Mental Health Setting. Caregiver Coping in Dementing Illness– Implications for Short-Term Respite Care Editorial - They Drink the Wine of Violence IJPNR Book Review: Promoting the Emotional Well-being of Children and Adolescents and Preventing Their Mental Ill Health" – A Handbook IJPNR Book Review: The Tidal Model: a Guide for Mental Health Professionals IJPNR Book Review: “Can You Read Me?” – Creative Writing With Child & Adult Victims of Abuse.
Jan-Feb-March-April 2005	Volume 10 - Issue 2

Volume: 10 Issue: 2	Editorial – Fighting Stigma from with in Making Equity a Reality: Oral Health Promotion Education For Life: The Evaluation of an Innovative Approach to Facilitate Ongoing Learning for Nurses ‘An overview of the assessment tools available to mental health professionals to help determine patients at risk of suicide’ Insomnia, depression and anxiety disorders and their association with benzodiazepine drug use among the community-dwelling elderly: implications for mental health nursing. IJPNR Book Review - Mental Illness - A Handbook for Carer’s IJPNR Book Review - Ageing, spirituality and Well-being IJPNR Book Review - Good Practice in Adult Mental Health
Sept - Dec 2004	Volume 10 - Issue 1

Volume: 10 Issue: 1	Association of Caregiver Planning with Recent Experiences of Crisis Talking the Talk: A Discourse Analysis of Mental Health Nurses talking about their Practice. Editorial - 10th Anniversary Editorial: August 1994 - 2004 "Now We Are Ten" "A Comparison of the Effectiveness of Two Hypnotic Agents for the Treatment of Insomnia" Spasm or Transformation? Advanced Practice Psychiatric Nursing Education in the United States* IJPNR Book Review: Clinical Handbook of Psychotropic Drugs for Children and Adolescents
June-July-August 2004	Volume 9 - Issue 3

Volume: 9 Issue: 3	Nurse Judgments of Hallucinated Voice Descriptions: Relevance for Intervention. The Effects of Reminiscence on Self-health Perception and Self-esteem of Institutionalized Elderly in Taiwan Evidence-Based Practice, Research and Anorexia: The What, the Whys and the Hurdles Editorial - The Way We Live Now IJPNR Book Review: Autism and Creativity
Jan-Feb-March-April 2004	Volume 9 - Issue 2

Volume: 9 Issue: 2	Editorial - Ten To Make and the Match To Win - 1st January 2004 Countertransference in factitious disorders and Munchauen syndrome. Evaluating The Effectiveness of Snoezelen* on Women who have a Dementing Illness. Southeast Asian Refugee Children: Self-Esteem as a Predictor of Depression and Scholastic Achievement in the U.S. Pfizer Educational Forum Conference - Socratic Dialogue: The Body and Mind: Atypical Antipsychotics, Physical Well-Being and Compliance. September 22nd, 2003 Prague, Czech Republic Municipal House, Square of Republic, 111 21 Prague 1 Czech Republic. Jose de Cangas and Hugh Jenkinson Memorial Awards
Sept-Oct-Nov-Dec 2003	Volume 9 - Issue 1

Volume: 9 Issue: 1	Editorial - Understanding the Biological Bases of Mental Illness Becoming a Mental Health Nurse: A Qualitative Study [Part-2] Social Constructionism, Discourse Analysis and Mental Health Nursing: Mentor Relationship as a Tool of Professional Development of Student Nurses in Clinical Practice. Treatment for Substance Abuse in Australia: IJPNR Book Review: Clinical Handbook Psychotropic Drugs - By Kalyna Z. Bezchlibnyk-Butler and J. Joel Jeffries. [Editors]
May-June-July-Aug 2003	Volume 8 - Issue 3

Volume: 8 Issue: 3	Editorial - Towards a Neurotheology? Constructing Monsters: Correctional Discourse and Nursing Practice Becoming a Mental Health Nurse: a Qualitative Study [Part-1] How Reality Orientation May Impact Upon Violence and Aggression Within Acute Psychiatric Care. IJPNR Book Review: Working with Serious Mental Illness: A Manual for clinical practice. Edited by Catherine Gamble and Geoff Brennan.
February-March-April: 2003	Volume 8 - Issue 2

Volume: 8 Issue: 2	News from Hong Kong - China. ‘Hope’ in the Recovery from Stroke in the U.S. Religiosity and Psychological Well-being of Older Women in Hong Kong. IJPNR 'Book Review' The Case Study Guide to Cognitive Behavior Therapy of Psychosis Guest Editorial - Sleep Walking With Cannabis:
October - December 2002:	Volume 8 - Issue 1

Volume: 8 Issue: 1	Does Religious Psychotherapy Improve Anxiety and Depression in Religious Adults? Editorial - In Days of Yore – Spirituality, Religion and Mental Health. Research in Religion and Mental Health: Naming of Parts – Some reflections
May 2002	Volume 7 - Issue 3

Volume: 7 Issue: 3	The Impact of Depression on Stroke Recovery in the U.S. Call for Papers - Spirituality, Religion and Mental Health Carer's Section International Teaching Material for Mental Health Students Studying in English Editorial - Obituary Hugh Jenkinson - (1940-2002)
December 2001	Volume 7 - Issue 2

Volume: 7 Issue: 2	Geriatric Pharmacotherapy: Problems with Adherence The experience of community mental health case management provided from an acute in-patient psychiatric unit An Overview and Introduction to Psychosocial Interventions and the Standardisation of Diagnosis: Editorial - Drogoresearch.com
June 2001	Volume 7 - Issue 1

Volume: 7 Issue: 1	Depression among Immigrant Mexican Women and Southeast Asian Refugee Women in the U. S. Measuring risk in a high security forensic setting through the Behavioural Status Index Measuring Communication and Social Skills in a high Security Forensic setting using the Behavioural Status Index Editorial - Pity the Poor Patient!
February 2001	Volume 6 - Issue 3

Volume: 6 Issue: 3	Credentials and Education Needs for Contemporary Mental Health Nurses Transactional Analysis Functional Ego States in People with Schizophrenia and their immediate Relatives Depression and Health in Older Women Editorial - Consent and Mental Health
October 2000	Volume 6 - Issue 2

Volume: 6 Issue: 2	Caring for Family Carers and People with Dementia Acculturative Stress and Depressed Mood Among Liberian Men Residing in a Large U.S. Midwestern City The Image of Drug and Alcohol Nurses: Undesirable and Unskilled or Knight’s in Shinning Armour Editorial - Evaluating Health Care
June 2000	Volume 6 - Issue 1

Volume: 6 Issue: 1	Real Time Training for Mental Health Staff Working in an In-Patient Setting Psychiatric Nursing Education: Can it make a Difference? Describing a Model of Nursing as a Focus for Psychiatric Nursing Care Editorial - Evaluation Research:
January 2000	Volume 5 - Issue 3

Volume: 5 Issue: 3	Cognitive Behavioural Group Anger Management For Out-Patients: A Retrospective Study On the Importance of Congruence between Psychiatric Staff and Patient about the Patient's Status The Milieu and Milieu Therapy in Adolescent Mental Health Nursing Editorial - Internet Accessibility:
October 1999	Volume 5 - Issue 2

Volume: 5 Issue: 2	The Behavioural Status Index (BSI) Some Preliminary Reliability Studies American Indian Working Women: Correlates of Subclinical Depression Among American Indian Women Southeast Asian Refugee Children: Violence Experience and Depression The Process of Transforming Self in Women Veterans With Post--Traumatic Stress Disorder Resulting From Sexual Abuse. Editorial - Religion and Mental Health
May 1999	Volume 5 - Issue 1

Volume: 5 Issue: 1	Lesbians in Alcohol Recovery Surviving Childhood Sexual Abuse and Parental Substance Misuse Evaluating the Effect of Assessment Education with Community Psychiatric Nurses Using a File Audit Tool User Views of a Regional Secure Unit - Findings From a Patient Satisfaction Survey The Importance of Theory in Student Nurses' Psychiatric Practicum Editorial - Malnutrition in Hospital
January 1999	Volume 4 - Issue 3

Volume: 4 Issue: 3	Indigenous Mental Health: The Rainbow Serpent Awakening Using Focus Groups to Evaluate an Education Program Investigation into Nursing Staff Knowledge and Attitude to Dementia Predicting inpatient violence using the Broset Violence Checklist (BVC) Editorial – Journal Accessibility through WebPages.
September 1998	Volume 4 - Issue 2

Volume: 4 Issue: 2	Schizophrenia Treatment: The Use of Atypical Drugs - Risperdal, Zyperexa, and Clozaril Testing Two Elements of Spirituality in Depressed and Non-depressed Elders The Process Of Transforming Self In Women Veterans With Post-traumatic Stress Disorder Resulting From Sexual Abuse Editorial - Psychosocial Rehabilitation
April 1998	Volume 4 - Issue 1

Volume: 4 Issue: 1	Measuring Risk and Related Behaviour with the Behavioural Status Index (BSI): Some Preliminary Psychometric Studies Influential Factors In Choosing Adult/Mental Health Nursing Southeast Asian Refugee Women and Depression: A Nursing Intervention Help-Seeking Pattern Of Psychiatric Outpatients In Urban China Editorial - 'Old Age A Regret': Research, Dementia and Health Care
October 1997	Volume 3 - Issue 3

Volume: 3 Issue: 3	Assertive Case Management Training: A model of University, Hospital and Community Mental Health Agency collaboration in the training of future psychiatric nursing clinical specialists. A Survey of Information provision in Mental Health: What have we learned? Educational Requirements Of Mental Health/Psychiatric Nurses: Research Data Obtained From Nurses Employed Within Rural Coastal Areas Of The Far North Coast Of New South Wales User's Views of their Continuing Care Community Psychiatric Services. Editorial - Obituary: Gayla Blackwell 1940 - 1997
April 1997	Volume 3 - Issue 2

Volume: 3 Issue: 2	Towards a Definition of Hope The Spanish Educational Training System for the Assessment of Mental and Physical Handicaps: A Novel New Approach to a Comprehensive National Training Program for Mental Health Professionals. Mood Enhancement and Anxiety Reduction using Physical Exercise in a Clinical sample Factorial Analysis of the Research Appraisal Checklist (RAC) Editorial – Evidence-Based Practice and Psychosocial Interventions.
December 1996	Volume 3 - Issue 1

Volume: 3 Issue: 1	The Phenomenology of Care-giver Stress: a Biographical Genesis A Study of Empathy as a Nursing Care Outcome Measure Clinical Supervision : A Framework for Practice The three R's program: A Wellness Approach to the Rehabilitation of Neurobiological Disorders Editorial - What is Mental Health?
August 1996	Volume 2 - Issue 3

Volume: 2 Issue: 3	Case Management: Reasons for it's Effectiveness Suicide: The Heartache Remains Evaluation of a Cognitive Behaviour Therapy Service Role Conflict and Psychological Well-being Between Part-time and Full-time Working Mothers of Preschool Children Editorial - The Royal Society of Health.
April 1996	Volume 2 - Issue 2

Volume: 2 Issue: 2	Assessing the Need for A Family Bereavement Program The Nurses Role in the Managed Care Acute Psychiatric Setting Ethnic and Cultural Specificities of Domestic Violence: A Research and Clinical Discourse with Reference to the Vietnamese Emigrant Community. Differences in Employed Married, Divorced, and Single Women According to Age Premigration Violence Experience of Southeast Asian Refugee Children in the U.S.A. Editorial - Preventing Suicide: the Role of the Nurse.
November 1995	Volume 2 - Issue 1

Volume: 2 Issue: 1	Heterogeneity of Symptoms in Schizophrenia: A Dimensional Approach in Care-giving Research. Clinical teaching as part of psychiatric nursing education Enhancing Client Adherence to Psychotropic Medication Regimens: A Psychosocial Nursing Approach Journal - Editorial
June 1995	Volume 1 - Issue 3

Volume: 1 Issue: 3	Psychiatric Nursing Assertive Case Management: A Comprehensive Evaluation of the Effectiveness and Outcomes of Hospital Based Treatment Versus a Nurse Directed Assertive Case Management Program Development of the Perception of Empathy Inventory The Evaluation of Structured Group Activities on a Psychiatric Unit - Patients' and Staff's Perspectives. Hypnosis as a Clinical Intervention for Weight Reduction and Self-Esteem Improvement in Young Adult Women Editorial - Discarding the Millstones: New Ways Forward
January 1995	Volume 1 - Issue 2

Volume: 1 Issue: 2	The Cost and Some Benefits of Clinical Supervision An Initial Exploration Autonomy and Decision Making in Community Psychiatric Nurses The Relationship of Age and Attitudes Toward Menopause Among Three Age Groups of College Educated American Women Separation Loss in Relinquishing Birthmothers Editorial - When the Research Outcome is Savin1! the Profession
August 1994	Volume 1 - Issue 1

Volume: 1 Issue: 1	The Use of the Foistein Mini Mental Examination in a Pilot Study on the Influence of Reminiscence in Persons with Alzheimer's Disease A Scale To Measure Nurses' Comfort Working With Clients Who Have Been Sexually Abused. A Comparison of the Effects of Stress on Psychiatric and Medical Nurses Enhancing Professional Competency: The Development of a Composite Psychiatric Nursing Interview The First Editorial – August 1994

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