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Postscript (2024)
Book Chapter
Howard, V., & Alfred, L. (2024). Postscript. In V. Howard, & L. Alfred (Eds.), Formulation in Mental Health Nursing (189-197). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-59956-9_9

Each chapter of this book has highlighted different perspectives of what the human experience of distress might look like. It has also gone some way towards exploring equally varied means of understanding individual distress and leaning on formulatio... Read More about Postscript.

Practitioner Reflections on the Use of Formulation in Mental Health Nursing Practice (2024)
Book Chapter
Howard, V., Peirson, J., Gideon, M., & Martin, M. (2024). Practitioner Reflections on the Use of Formulation in Mental Health Nursing Practice. In V. Howard, & L. Alfred (Eds.), Formulation in Mental Health Nursing (161-188). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-59956-9_8

This chapter will present and examine mental health care professionals’ involvement in formulation and views focused on mental health nurses’ roles in formulation practice. Beginning with student mental health nurses’ excerpts from three students’ re... Read More about Practitioner Reflections on the Use of Formulation in Mental Health Nursing Practice.

Perspectives on Formulation Within Current Mental Health Nursing Practice (2024)
Book Chapter
Howard, V., & Alfred, L. (2024). Perspectives on Formulation Within Current Mental Health Nursing Practice. In V. Howard, & L. Alfred (Eds.), Formulation in Mental Health Nursing (27-50). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-59956-9_2

This chapter will draw together some of the current considerations around using formulation within mental health nursing practice. It will begin by identifying the literature currently available to us which involves mental health nursing professional... Read More about Perspectives on Formulation Within Current Mental Health Nursing Practice.

Formulating Interpersonal Conflict, Relationship Factors and Abuse (2024)
Book Chapter
Howard, V., Adan, A., & Marlow, N. (2024). Formulating Interpersonal Conflict, Relationship Factors and Abuse. In V. Howard, & L. Alfred (Eds.), Formulation in Mental Health Nursing (97-118). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-59956-9_5

Relationships and how we navigate through them in our lives can have an overwhelming impact on our wellbeing, behaviours and outlooks. This chapter will examine in particular how detrimental relationships through family members, partners, care givers... Read More about Formulating Interpersonal Conflict, Relationship Factors and Abuse.

Understanding Human Distress and an Invitation to Explore the Myriads of Formulation (2024)
Book Chapter
Howard, V., & Alfred, L. (2024). Understanding Human Distress and an Invitation to Explore the Myriads of Formulation. In V. Howard, & L. Alfred (Eds.), Formulation in Mental Health Nursing (1-25). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-59956-9_1

Welcome to Chap. 1 which focuses on introducing the key sources of underpinning concepts in developing formulation approaches in mental health nursing. These will be further explored and illustrated through the real-life accounts within subsequent ch... Read More about Understanding Human Distress and an Invitation to Explore the Myriads of Formulation.

Online Group Supervision as Pedagogy: A Qualitative Inquiry of Student Mental Health Nurses’ Discourses and Participation (2024)
Journal Article
Howard, V., & Peirson, J. (2024). Online Group Supervision as Pedagogy: A Qualitative Inquiry of Student Mental Health Nurses’ Discourses and Participation. Issues in mental health nursing, https://doi.org/10.1080/01612840.2023.2283507

This study explored online group clinical supervision participation, as a component of pre-registration education following mental health nursing students’ clinical placements. Clinical supervision has historically been valued as a supportive strateg... Read More about Online Group Supervision as Pedagogy: A Qualitative Inquiry of Student Mental Health Nurses’ Discourses and Participation.

The Narcissist Never Leaves, Only Dies: An Autoethnographic Account Inspired by Cixous (2023)
Book Chapter
Howard, V. (2023). The Narcissist Never Leaves, Only Dies: An Autoethnographic Account Inspired by Cixous. In E. Mackinlay, & R. Mickelburgh (Eds.), Critical Autoethnography and Écriture Feminine (53-62). Palgrave Macmillan (part of Springer Nature). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-40051-3_5

This writing speaks to Cixous’ notions of the need for loss and reparation in relation to writing critical autoethnography. In this chapter, I share my experiences of narcissistic abuse resulting from an intimate relationship and enter into conversat... Read More about The Narcissist Never Leaves, Only Dies: An Autoethnographic Account Inspired by Cixous.

"The End Justifies the Memes": A Feminist Relational Discourse Analysis of the Role of Macro Memes in Facilitating Supportive Discussions for Victim-Survivors of Narcissistic Abuse (2022)
Journal Article
Howard, V., & Adan, A. (2022). "The End Justifies the Memes": A Feminist Relational Discourse Analysis of the Role of Macro Memes in Facilitating Supportive Discussions for Victim-Survivors of Narcissistic Abuse. Cyberpsychology: Journal of Psychosocial Research on Cyberspace, 16(4), Article 10. https://doi.org/10.5817/CP2022-4-10

This article reports the results of a qualitative study which aimed to investigate the role of internet memes in facilitating supportive discussions among women on an online platform concerning narcissistic abuse. Narcissistic abuse is an under-recog... Read More about "The End Justifies the Memes": A Feminist Relational Discourse Analysis of the Role of Macro Memes in Facilitating Supportive Discussions for Victim-Survivors of Narcissistic Abuse.

(Gas)lighting Their Way to Coercion and Violation in Narcissistic Abuse; An Autoethnographic Exploration (2022)
Journal Article
Howard, V. (2022). (Gas)lighting Their Way to Coercion and Violation in Narcissistic Abuse; An Autoethnographic Exploration. Journal of Autoethnography, 3(1), 84-102. https://doi.org/10.1525/joae.2022.3.1.84

Narcissistic abuse is a hidden form of abuse and remains under-recognized in society and within the helping professions, partly due to victim difficulties in articulating the manipulative behaviors they have experienced. Though research focusing on n... Read More about (Gas)lighting Their Way to Coercion and Violation in Narcissistic Abuse; An Autoethnographic Exploration.

Undergraduate mental health nursing students’ reflections in gaining understanding and skills in the critical appraisal of research papers – An exploration of barriers and enablers (2021)
Journal Article
Howard, V. (2021). Undergraduate mental health nursing students’ reflections in gaining understanding and skills in the critical appraisal of research papers – An exploration of barriers and enablers. Nurse education in practice, 55, Article 103143. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nepr.2021.103143

Aim: To explore a cohort of mental health nurses’ views and experiences in developing and applying critical appraisal of research skills to identify helping and hindering factors. Background: In accordance with evidence-based practice principles, the... Read More about Undergraduate mental health nursing students’ reflections in gaining understanding and skills in the critical appraisal of research papers – An exploration of barriers and enablers.

Conducting a mixed methods study to explore staff perceptions in providing care to individuals with co-occurring mental health problems and illicit substance use (2020)
Book Chapter
Howard, V. (2020). Conducting a mixed methods study to explore staff perceptions in providing care to individuals with co-occurring mental health problems and illicit substance use. In SAGE Research Methods: Cases. Part 2. SAGE Publications. https://doi.org/10.4135/9781529709650

This case study examines key issues in designing, developing, and conducting a research study to explore the perceptions of inpatient staff to individuals with co-occurring mental health problems and illicit substance use. The use of mixed methods re... Read More about Conducting a mixed methods study to explore staff perceptions in providing care to individuals with co-occurring mental health problems and illicit substance use.

Factors influencing adequate and effective clinical supervision for inpatient mental health nurses' personal and professional development: An integrative review (2020)
Journal Article
Howard, V., & Eddy‐Imishue, G. K. (in press). Factors influencing adequate and effective clinical supervision for inpatient mental health nurses' personal and professional development: An integrative review. Journal of psychiatric and mental health nursing, https://doi.org/10.1111/jpm.12604

What is known on the subject: CS was developed to give healthcare professionals a space to reflect, problem solve and recognise their own practice. It is different from managerial supervision as it is for the benefit of the individual staff member's... Read More about Factors influencing adequate and effective clinical supervision for inpatient mental health nurses' personal and professional development: An integrative review.

Recognising narcissistic abuse and the implications for mental health nursing practice (2019)
Journal Article
Howard, V. (2019). Recognising narcissistic abuse and the implications for mental health nursing practice. Issues in mental health nursing, 40(8), 644-654. https://doi.org/10.1080/01612840.2019.1590485

Emotional and psychological abuse are components of what are now more commonly accepted as aspects of domestic violence in addition to physical assault. Narcissistic abuse formulations of domestic violence are lesser known concepts and not recognised... Read More about Recognising narcissistic abuse and the implications for mental health nursing practice.

Inpatient staff perceptions in providing care to individuals with co-occurring mental health problems and illicit substance use (2010)
Journal Article
Howard, V., & Holmshaw, J. (2010). Inpatient staff perceptions in providing care to individuals with co-occurring mental health problems and illicit substance use. Journal of psychiatric and mental health nursing, 17(10), 862-872. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2850.2010.01620.x

The extent of illicit substance use within inpatient mental health settings is becoming a major cause of concern. This poses growing challenges not only for the management of inpatient units, but also for providing continuity of care. Service users w... Read More about Inpatient staff perceptions in providing care to individuals with co-occurring mental health problems and illicit substance use.

One of the gang (2002)
Journal Article
Howard, V. (2002). One of the gang. Mental health practice, 6(3), 6-11