{"title":"Getting Spiritual Care Into Reality: A Comment on Hong and Kang (2026)—The Effectiveness of Nurse-Delivered Logotherapy-Based Interventions: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis","authors":"Sílvia Caldeira, Tiago Casaleiro, Janaína Fabri","doi":"10.1111/jpm.70149","DOIUrl":"10.1111/jpm.70149","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":50076,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing","volume":"33 4","pages":"698-699"},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2026-07-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147960449","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Unpacking the “Art” in Art Therapy: Methodological Considerations and Heterogeneity in Meta-Analytical Approaches","authors":"Febri Wandha Putra, Kadek Suhardita, Restu Dwi Ariyanto, Rahmi Dwi Febriani, Puji Gusri Handayani","doi":"10.1111/jpm.70131","DOIUrl":"10.1111/jpm.70131","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":50076,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing","volume":"33 4","pages":"614-615"},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2026-07-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147786829","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Optimisation Drift and Substitution Risk in Artificial Intelligence–Supported Personalised Mental Health Nursing: A Critical Synthesis on Therapeutic Presence and Care Biography","authors":"Erman Yıldız","doi":"10.1111/jpm.70137","DOIUrl":"10.1111/jpm.70137","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 \u0000 <section>\u0000 \u0000 <h3> Introduction</h3>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Artificial intelligence-supported personalisation is accelerating in mental health services, yet it can reclassify relationship, biography, and judgement as optional.</p>\u0000 </section>\u0000 \u0000 <section>\u0000 \u0000 <h3> Aim/Question</h3>\u0000 \u0000 <p>To explain how “personalisation” drifts into substitution and to specify minimum conditions for safe, workable implementation in mental health nursing.</p>\u0000 </section>\u0000 \u0000 <section>\u0000 \u0000 <h3> Method</h3>\u0000 \u0000 <p>A debate essay using purposive critical synthesis of empirical and conceptual literature to organise three recurring tensions and derive auditable safeguards.</p>\u0000 </section>\u0000 \u0000 <section>\u0000 \u0000 <h3> Results</h3>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Three tensions recur across current deployments: alliance-like chatbot support can be mistaken for therapeutic presence; automation can narrow clinical reasoning and contribute to deskilling; and trace-based personalisation can override care biography and erode trust through extractive data practices.</p>\u0000 </section>\u0000 \u0000 <section>\u0000 \u0000 <h3> Discussion</h3>\u0000 \u0000 <p>The common failure mechanism is optimisation drift under weak governance, where simulated alliance replaces therapeutic presence, metric authority displaces professional judgement, and proxy traces override care biography.</p>\u0000 </section>\u0000 \u0000 <section>\u0000 \u0000 <h3> Implications for Practice</h3>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Service governance and procurement should treat therapeutic presence, narrative authority, and moral agency protection as non-negotiable clinical outcomes at the point of care.</p>\u0000 </section>\u0000 \u0000 <section>\u0000 \u0000 <h3> Recommendations</h3>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Implement relationally accountable augmentation with explicit red lines, escalation pathways, protected relational time, biography-first documentation, and evaluation that tests accountability and safety under routine conditions.</p>\u0000 </section>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":50076,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing","volume":"33 4","pages":"641-647"},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2026-07-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147823061","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Resisting Psychopathologies of Dominance and Authoritarianism: From Trumpian Dystopia to Better Tomorrows","authors":"Michael Haslam, Mick McKeown","doi":"10.1111/jpm.70132","DOIUrl":"10.1111/jpm.70132","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 \u0000 <section>\u0000 \u0000 <h3> Background</h3>\u0000 \u0000 <p>The world and mental health nursing face several crises that, in different ways, reflect problems of dominance. Global politics are afflicted with a growth of support for right-wing ideologies associated with domineering authoritarian leaders. Mental health services are dominated by a singular application of bio-psychiatric ideas and practices. Both forms of dominance are potentially alienating and harmful.</p>\u0000 </section>\u0000 \u0000 <section>\u0000 \u0000 <h3> Argument</h3>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Psychosocial theories offer ways to make sense of authoritarian tendencies across both realms and point to how dominance can be resisted towards progressive transformation. Authoritarian right-wing politics arguably pose an existential threat to society, which is implicated in growing mental distress at the population level and damages services by squeezing resources. Dominant bio-psychiatry visits epistemic and material harms upon the mentally distressed and restricts choice over care and support. Nurses operate at the relational and political nexus of these harms, so must be able to make sense of generative factors and be active in providing remedies.</p>\u0000 </section>\u0000 \u0000 <section>\u0000 \u0000 <h3> Conclusions</h3>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Applying psychosocial theory can raise political consciousness for mental health nurses and support development of a new politicised professional identity. Advocacy and activist-oriented nurses can mitigate harms across societal and practice-level political engagement. We can, and arguably must, be part of resistance movements grounded in a relational ethic of care.</p>\u0000 </section>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":50076,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing","volume":"33 4","pages":"618-625"},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2026-07-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/jpm.70132","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147787882","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Applying Identity Theory to Mental Health Nursing: Lessons From 1980 to 2000 and Guidance for Nurse Researchers","authors":"Victoria Sweetmore","doi":"10.1111/jpm.70144","DOIUrl":"10.1111/jpm.70144","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 \u0000 <section>\u0000 \u0000 <h3> Aim</h3>\u0000 \u0000 <p>To examine the potential value of identity theory as a framework for analysing professional identity in mental health nursing, using published historical and professional literature relating to the transition from psychiatric hospital to community care in England between 1980 and 2000.</p>\u0000 </section>\u0000 \u0000 <section>\u0000 \u0000 <h3> Background</h3>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Professional identity shapes nurses' role performance, resilience and job satisfaction. Mental health nursing identity is particularly sensitive to organisational and policy change. Identity theory offers a structured model for understanding how role identities are formed, verified and challenged in changing practice environments.</p>\u0000 </section>\u0000 \u0000 <section>\u0000 \u0000 <h3> Method</h3>\u0000 \u0000 <p>A theory-informed document analysis of published historical, policy and professional literature relating to mental health nursing between 1980 and 2000 was undertaken. Key concepts from identity theory were used as an analytic lens to explore how professional identity challenges and adaptations are described in the literature.</p>\u0000 </section>\u0000 \u0000 <section>\u0000 \u0000 <h3> Discussion</h3>\u0000 \u0000 <p>The analysis demonstrates that identity theory provides a coherent framework for interpreting documented accounts of role disruption, identity verification and adaptive strategies during the shift from psychiatric hospital to community-based care. The theory enables multi-level analysis linking individual experience, organisational context and policy change.</p>\u0000 </section>\u0000 \u0000 <section>\u0000 \u0000 <h3> Conclusion</h3>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Document analysis indicates that identity theory has strong potential as a theoretical framework for future empirical research on mental health nursing identity, including oral history approaches.</p>\u0000 </section>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":50076,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing","volume":"33 4","pages":"679-686"},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2026-07-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/jpm.70144","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147943601","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Mick McKeown, Sarah Gilroy, Steve Jones, Gamu Chirozva, Trudie Martin
{"title":"Editorial: Enough Now: Mental Health Wards Must Be Adequately Staffed","authors":"Mick McKeown, Sarah Gilroy, Steve Jones, Gamu Chirozva, Trudie Martin","doi":"10.1111/jpm.70140","DOIUrl":"10.1111/jpm.70140","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The UK trade union Unison's <i>Only Enough is Enough</i> safe staffing campaign undertakes an annual survey of practising nurses' experiences and views (Tuckwood et al. <span>2024</span>). The survey is administered through the union's extensive network of branches. Overall, across all domains of care, a worrying degree of staff shortages is reported alongside disappointing management responses and a disinclination amongst practitioners to bother escalating concerns. Broader research evidence has cumulatively painted the same picture. For instance, a systematic review focused on the relationship between omissions in nursing care (rationed care, care left undone, or missed care) and staffing levels showed 75% of nurses reporting some degree of missed care, and these care omissions were significantly associated with low staffing levels and seemed impervious to workforce substitution of nurses with support workers (Griffiths et al. <span>2018</span>). Mental health problems also contribute to staffing pressures in wider NHS settings, including accident and emergency units and general hospital wards, leading to poorer outcomes (Foye et al. <span>2020</span>).</p><p>There is less research on staffing levels and ratios in the mental health context. With a specific focus on inpatient mental health settings, a systematic review found an unclear relationship between low staffing, ward conflict and use of containment measures, though nine studies did show higher staffing levels associated with reductions in conflict and containment (Woodnutt et al. <span>2025</span>). Another more recent systematic review has demonstrated a positive relationship between quality of mental health nursing care and a range of important outcomes, including manifestations of aggression, instances of self-harm and rates of use of various restrictive interventions (Ngune et al. <span>2023</span>). Interestingly, low staffing levels can impede quality improvement interventions within inpatient services, such as those aimed at minimising restrictive interventions (McKeown et al. <span>2019</span>). There would seem to be an intuitive association between quality of nursing care or prevalence of critical incidents and staffing levels, but previous research has failed to conclusively demonstrate this in the mental health context (Woodnutt et al. <span>2025</span>). More and better designed research is needed to explore relationships between nurse staffing levels, care quality and outcomes in mental health services; including a need to take account of vagaries in standard reporting and recording of ward incidents and outcomes.</p><p>Commentary on previous iterations of this survey have highlighted these matters, drawing attention to a perceived normalisation of inadequate and unsafe staffing levels, whereby nurses and hospital managers have reached the point of taking it for granted that staffing is insufficient (Tuckwood and Griffiths <span>2025</span>). Indeed, Robert Francis, who ","PeriodicalId":50076,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing","volume":"33 4","pages":"650-652"},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2026-07-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/jpm.70140","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147845252","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Dominikus David Biondi Situmorang, Nisa Anindita, Sarah Kusumah Bakti
{"title":"Verbal Violence and Character Assassination: The Silent Epidemic in Mental Health Issues.","authors":"Dominikus David Biondi Situmorang, Nisa Anindita, Sarah Kusumah Bakti","doi":"10.1111/jpm.70053","DOIUrl":"10.1111/jpm.70053","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":50076,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing","volume":" ","pages":"349-350"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2026-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145543434","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abi Fa'izzarahman Prabawa, Eni Rindi Antika, Kikis Setyawati
{"title":"Improving Retention After a Suicide Attempt Through Self-Compassion and Cybercounselling in Nurse-Led Follow-Up.","authors":"Abi Fa'izzarahman Prabawa, Eni Rindi Antika, Kikis Setyawati","doi":"10.1111/jpm.70114","DOIUrl":"10.1111/jpm.70114","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":50076,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing","volume":" ","pages":"395-396"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2026-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146259611","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Rethinking the Implementation of Safe Steps for De-Escalation.","authors":"Shanquan Gao, Yu Geng","doi":"10.1111/jpm.70107","DOIUrl":"10.1111/jpm.70107","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":50076,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing","volume":" ","pages":"362-363"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2026-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146144348","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Challenges and Opportunities of Being a Prosumer Researcher Exploring Women's Experience of Postpartum Emotional Distress (PPED): Been There, Done That?","authors":"Humaira Mujeeb","doi":"10.1111/jpm.70103","DOIUrl":"10.1111/jpm.70103","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Introduction: </strong>There is increasing recognition of the value of lived experience in mental health research and clinical practice; however, its integration remains limited within academic literature, particularly regarding the role and experiences of prosumer researchers. Existing scholarship provides insufficient insight into how researchers who combine professional and lived experience navigate methodological, ethical, and epistemological complexities.</p><p><strong>Aim: </strong>This paper explores how prosumer researchers can meaningfully integrate lived experience to enhance understanding of mental health phenomena while maintaining methodological rigor.</p><p><strong>Method: </strong>Using a reflective analytic approach, the paper explores the opportunities and challenges encountered by prosumer researchers, including managing dual roles, ensuring reflexivity, and achieving alignment between research methodology and methods.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>The findings highlight the critical importance of reflexivity in lived-experience research to ensure transparency, credibility, and rigour. The paper argues that carefully selected and reflexively applied methodologies can support the ethical and effective incorporation of lived experience.</p><p><strong>Implications for practice: </strong>Researchers and practitioners should adopt methodological approaches that accommodate reflexivity and lived experience, thereby enriching mental health research and informing more sensitive, practical, and effective interventions.</p>","PeriodicalId":50076,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing","volume":" ","pages":"357-361"},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2026-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146094540","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}