What is it about?

It will focus on mindfulness as a positive psychology intervention from its development to present day use and how it is relevant to mental health nursing. Finally, it will emphasise the importance of effective leadership in how the application of mindfulness can benefit the individual, the organisation so that individuals can understand how to further develop its transferability through evidence-based, user-friendly exercises.

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Why is it important?

Mindfulness commonly features as a health trend in mainstream magazines, television and radio, in academic journals and is offered to people via courses at different levels as well as being used in a range of educational and in clinical settings .Evidence-based practice shows how mindfulness has positive effects on mental health and psychological wellbeing such as depression, anxiety and stress, physical health related to pain and physical impairment, as well as in the quality of intimate relationships.

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In relation to work-related stress, a mental health nurse faces an enormous amount of challenges on an on-going basis. In terms of not only developing vital pro-social qualities for mental health nurses in terms of effective and professional delivery towards others, a crucial element of mindfulness is related to therapeutic self-care, which is often overlooked in health care professions. While this is not a ‘cure-all’, research strongly suggests it is a powerful foundation upon which mental health nurses can start to build on to improve their self-care and practice.

Mrs Jan Macfarlane
University of Bolton

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This page is a summary of: Positive psychology: mindfulness and its role within mental health nursing, British Journal of Mental Health Nursing, November 2019, Mark Allen Group,
DOI: 10.12968/bjmh.2019.0019.
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