European Psychiatric/Mental Health Nursing in the 21st Century / Principles of Specialty Nursing (PDF)

José Carlos P. Santos is Coordinator Professor at the Nursing School of Coimbra in Portugal. He has a background in nursing and experience in general and psychiatric hospitals. He completed his nursing degree (1986), his mental health specialisation (1997) and his master's degree (2000) in Coimbra, and his Doctoral degree (2006) in Oporto University. He is a researcher of the Health Sciences Research Unit-Nursing (UICISA-E), hosted by the Nursing School of Coimbra. He is the coordinator of the project "Prevention of suicidal behaviours" with three main areas: adolescents- prevention of suicidal behaviours in schools; families-prevention of suicides with the families; professionals-guidelines and tools to prevent suicides. He is a professor in the field of Mental Health Nursing, and he teaches in Doctoral programmes, master's degree programs and in an undergraduate nursing degree. The main issues are related to the area of Psychiatric/Mental Health Nursing. Actually he is the coordinator of the Master programme in Psychiatry and Mental Health Nursing. He has published books, papers, chapters, abstracts/conference proceedings in Portuguese and English. He is a board member of nursing journals such as "International Journal of Mental Health", "Referência", "Revista de Investigação em Enfermagem" and "Revista Sinais Vitais".
Dr. John R Cutcliffe holds the 'Blanke Endowed Research Chair in Nursing Research' and is the Director for the Center for Nursing Research at Wright State University, Ohio, USA. He also holds Adjunct Professor positions at the University of Ottawa, Canada, the University of Coimbra, Portugal and the University of Malta. He completed his psychiatric nurse and general nurse education in UK. His research interests focus on hope, suicide and clinical supervision and he was recognised by the federal government of Canada and cited as one of the top 20 'Research Leaders of Tomorrow' for his research focusing on hope and suicidology. He has published over

“This book discusses recently discovered key etiological findings and resultant policy/practice shifts in psychiatric/mental health nursing in Europe. … this is written for students of psychiatric/mental health nursing.” (Laura Kelly, Doody's Book Reviews, May, 2018)