Ms Vickie Howard's Outputs (7)

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.