Best practice in psychiatric nursing

Background/Objectives: Psychiatric professionals are regularly confronted with new concepts related to their work. In the 1970s it was expected to implement ‘Empowerment', in the 1990s ‘Recovery', and in the recent decade ‘Social Inclusion’. While these concepts themselves are able to confuse psychiatric nurses (and other professionals), it is obvious that the theories behind them cover similar issues up to a certain extent. ‘Empowerment’ is somehow renewed and stressed within ‘Recovery', and ‘Recovery’ aims at ‘Social Inclusion’ amongst other objectives. The aim of this project is to generate characteristics of…