CONTENTS VOLUME 15 - NUMBER 1 - MARCH 2006 Editorial ‘We used to call them student nurses’: Considering the impact of third-level workers Brenda Happell Feature Articles Home clinic programme: An alternative model for private mental health facilities and sufferers of major depression Eddie Blacklock Characteristics of adolescent depression Marie Crowe, Nic Ward, Bronwyn Dunnachie and Morian Roberts Multidisciplinary team working: Collaboration and conflict Adrian Jones ‘Consumer consultant’: Expanding the role of consumers in modern mental health services Michelle Cleary, Garry Walter and Phil Escott The mental health nurse: a valuable addition to the consultation-liaison team Julie Sharrock, Margaret Grigg, Brenda Happell, Barbara Keeble-Devlin and Shirley Jennings Extending the boundaries: Autoethnography as an emergent method in mental health nursing research Kim Foster, Margaret McAllister and Louise O’Brien Demographic factors and clinical correlates of burden and distress in relatives of service users experiencing schizophrenia: A study from south-western Nigeria Dominic I. Ukpong Nurses’ narratives about their residents when caring for people with long-term mental illness in municipal group dwellings Ove Hellzén and Kenneth Asplund Educational interventions for mental health consumers receiving psychotropic medication: A review of the evidence Ritin. S. Fernandez, Venita Evans, Rhonda D. Griffiths and Maria. S. Mostacchi Letter to the Editor Controversy continues in provision of care Sharon Booth VOLUME 15 - NUMBER 2 - JUNE 2006 Editorial Challenges and controversy in mental health nursing Brenda Happell Feature Articles ‘She's manipulative and he’s right off’: A critical analysis of psychiatric nurses’ oral and written language in the acute inpatient setting Bridget Hamilton and Elizabeth Manias CONTENTS Staff gender ratio and aggression in a forensic psychiatric hospital 93 Michael Daffern, Maggie Mayer and Trish Martin Verbal and social interactions in Swedish forensic psychiatric nursing care as perceived by the patients and nurses Mikael Rask and David Brunt Psychiatric nurses’ ethical stance on cigarette smoking by patients: Determinants and dilemmas in their role in supporting cessation Sharon Lawn and Judith Condon A conversation: Challenging the relevance and wisdom of separate mental health legislation Timothy Wand and Mary Chiarella Registered nurses as responsible clinicians under the New Zealand Mental Health (Compulsory Assessment and Treatment) Act 1992 Brian G. McKenna, AnthonyJ .O ’Brien, Toni Dal Din and Kate Thom Conflicting agendas between consumers and carers: The perspectives of carers and nurses Val Goodwin and Brenda Happell Treading lightly: Spirituality issues in mental health nursing Clare Wilding, Eimear Muir-Cockrane and Esther May Letter to the Editor Outcome measures: Do they fit with a recovery model? Graeme Browne VOLUME 15 - NUMBER 3 - SEPTEMBER 2006 Editorial Would the real mental health nurse please stand up? The relationship between identification and professional identity , Brenda Happell Feature Articles Introduction of an intensive case management style of delivery for a new mental health service Catherine Hangan Self-management of medication for mental health problems by homeless young people Eimear Muir-Cochrane, Jennifer Fereday, Jon Jureidini, Andrew Drummond and Philip Darbyshire Interagency collaborative research projects: Illustrating potential problems, and finding solutions in the nursing literature Andrea McCloughen and Louise O’Brien Reducing the isolation of young adults living with a mental illness in rural Australia Karola Mostafanejad Carer participation in mental health service delivery Michelle Cleary, Adele Freeman and Garry Walter Best practice guidelines for the administration of intramuscular injections in the mental health setting Dianne Wynaden, lan Landsborough, Sunita McGowan, Zena Baigmohamad, Michael Finn and Duane Pennebaker CONTENTS The mental health nurse practitioner in the emergency department: An Australian experience Timothy Wand and Jacklin Fisher A selective review of mental health nursing in New South Wales, Australia, in relation to clinical supervision Edward White and Michael Roche Book Review VOLUME 15 - NUMBER 4 - DECEMBER 2006 Editorial Focus on inpatient units Brenda Happell Guest Editorial Eliminating seclusion and restraint in Australia Margaret Grigg Feature Articles Serious untoward incidents and their aftermath in acute inpatient psychiatry: The Tompkins Acute Ward Study Len Bowers, Alan Simpson, Sophie Eyres, Henk Nijman, Cerdic Hall, Angela Grange and Louise Phillips Assessment of risk and special observations in mental health practice: A comparison of forensic and non-forensic settings Elizabeth Whitehead and Tom Mason The health-care environment on a locked psychiatric ward: An ethnographic study Inger M. Johansson, Ingela Skdrsdter and Ella Danielson A nurse-physician co-leadership model in psychiatric hospitals: Results of a survey among leading staff members in three sites Tilman Steinert, Rita Goebel and Wolfgang Rieger Beliefs about using consumer consultants in inpatient psychiatric units Terence V. McCann, John Baird, Eileen Clark and Sai Lu Prn. medication use in a psychiatric high-dependency unit following the introduction of a nurse-led activity programme Ben Thomas, Margaret Jones, Paul Johns and Tom Trauer Challenging the smoking culture within a mental health service supportively Paul Reilly, Leeann Murphy and Deirdre Alderton Book Review Reviewers