Psych 101: What You Didn't Learn in Nursing School

by Kathi Stringer

From the author that wrote, "5150 - The One Who Flew Into the Cuckoo's Nest." I was treated so badly that I wondered what nursing staff was learning in school. I read everything the local college had to offer on psychiatric nursing, and I thought, "They sure didn't treat me this way." I decided to dive into a higher level of learning and studied books from the American Psychiatric Association (APA) and from Aaronson Publishing. This book is a compilation of my essays over the years and was created from therapeutic models that resonate with actual experience. Also, for individuals that want to learn about developmental psychology to understand human behavior. Much of my writings were extracted from the work of Glenn O. Gabbard, Margaret Mahler and Sam Vaknin. Building a therapeutic alliance is imperative to get treatment compliance. This book looks not only at etiology and symptoms in Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD), but also treatment modalities.

320 pages, Paperback

First published February 22, 2008

Reviews

[Leabelle · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is a valuable book for those working in mental health. Contains useful articles giving insight into the experience of a sufferer of BPD, bipolar disorder and regression. Every mental health worker should read it. So much of what gets built up in the responses of mental health workers, stress, burnout, compassion fatigue etc. could be, I believe, avoided if they were trained in therapeutic, containing and validating responses. Unfortunately, such training is thin on the ground. Congratulations must go to Kathi Stringer for her efforts to rectify this. Most worthwhile.