Key features:
· Covers the theory and principles behind critical thinking and reflection
· Explores the specific mental health context and unique challenges students are likely to face as a mental health nurse
· Applies critical thinking to practice but also to academic study, showing how to demonstrate these skills in assignments
Dr Marc Roberts is a researcher, writer and lecturer with extensive and varied experience working in mental health practice and education. In addition to having clinical experience in mental health care he also has an academic background in philosophy. His research is therefore concerned with the way in which critical thinking, critical reflection and philosophy more generally can contribute to the theory and practice of contemporary mental health care.