Books written by Alec Grant

Our Encounters with Stalking

Describes the depression, anxiety, sleep disturbance, paranoia, agoraphobia and post-traumatic stress that are all possible as a consequence of stalking.
Communication and Interpersonal Skills for Nurses

... with teaching skills, which is why in this chapter we will be concentrating on how you can communicate clearly, using interpersonal skills effectively to transmit information when you act as an educator (see Quinn and Hughes, 2007).
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy in Mental Health Care

Written to meet the needs of those acquiring knowledge and skills in the area of cognitive behavioural therapy, this book outlines the core principles involved in building the therapeutic alliance, case formulation, assessment, and ...
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy in Mental Health Care

Maselko, J., and Patel, V., 2008, 'Why women attempt suicide: The role of mental illness and social disadvantage in a ... Morrell, J., Slade, P., Warner, R., Paley, G., Walters, S.J., Brugha, T., Barkham, M., Parry, G.J., and Nicholl, ...
Assessment and Case Formulation in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy

Bennett-Levy, J., Lee, N., Travers, K., Pohlman, S. and Hamernik, E. (2003) 'Cognitive therapy from the insider: enhancing therapist skills through practising what we preach', Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy, 31(2): 143–58.
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy in Mental Health Care

Morrison (2001) suggests that metacognition plays an important role in how a voice(s) is perceived and subsequently experienced. Morrison draws similarities between how intrusive thoughts in obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) and ...
Assessment and Case Formulation in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy

This important text explores assessment and case formulation in cognitive behavioural psychotherapy and unpacks these areas in-depth. This discussion is backed up by chapters focusing on clinical case studies and...
Communication and Interpersonal Skills in Nursing

The Our Encounters series of books contains narratives from people who have experienced health-related problems and ... 2013), Our Encounters with Self-Harm (Baker et al., 2013) or Our Encounters with Stalking (Taylor et al., in press).
International Perspectives on Autoethnographic Research and Practice

Our Encounters with Stalking. Ross-on-Wye: PCCS Books. Turner, L., 2013. The Evocative Autoethnographic I: The Relational Ethics of Writing about Oneself. In: N.P. Short, L. Turner, and A. Grant, eds.
An Autoethnography of Becoming a Qualitative Researcher: A Dialogic View of Academic Development

This book is suitable for all researchers and students, their supervisors, mentors and teachers, and academics of qualitative research and autoethnography, and those interested in critiques of higher education"--
Communication and Interpersonal Skills in Nursing

The new edition of this well regarded book introduces the underpinning theory and concepts required for the development of first class communication and interpersonal skills in nursing.
Contemporary British Autoethnography

For her thesis she produced an analytical autoethnodrama about the pressures of life in a fictional university and the impact of the perceived publish or perish culture on some academics motivation and desire to write for academic ...
Assessment and Case Formulation in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy

Combining practical accessibility with theoretical sophistication, this book will be invaluable reading for both beginning therapists and experienced clinicians' - Jeremy D. Safran, Ph.D., Professor and Director of Clinical Psychology, New ...
Communication and Interpersonal Skills for Nurses

Good communication and interpersonal skills remain one of the enduring and fundamental characteristics of high quality nursing practice. However, these necessary skills are often overlooked and underdeveloped during training. This...
Communication & Interpersonal Skills in Nursing

This title provides the essential information on communication and interpersonal skills in line with the NMC Proficiencies, NOS and Skills for Health Competencies and QAA descriptors.
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy in Mental Health Care

ELEVEN Working with People in Assertive Outreach Jem Mills , Alec Grant , Ronan Mulhern and Nigel Short Learning objectives After reading this chapter and completing the activities at the end of it you should be able to : 1 identify the ...
Cognitive Behavioural Interventions for Mental Health Practitioners

This book guides the reader through the fundamental principles of the approach in its various mental health application contexts, enabling them to gain the confidence to engage in the supervised, safe and evidence-based application of these ...
Assessment and Case Formulation in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy

Assessment and Case Formulation in Cognitive Behaviour Therapy is a comprehensive guide to key areas of professional knowledge and skill.
An Autoethnography of Becoming A Qualitative Researcher: A Dialogic View of Academic Development

This book is suitable for all researchers and students, their supervisors, mentors, and teachers, and academics of qualitative research and autoethnography, and those interested in critiques of higher education.
Communication and Interpersonal Skills in Nursing

... Child (United Nations, 1989, p4) asserts that Children have a right to be consulted, to be heard, to express their own views and feelings. Communication supports everything that children's nurses do. Effective communication skills are ...