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Professor Chris Stevenson
Research Areas:
- Suicide, meaningful health care responses
- Postmodern/Foucauldian approaches to health and health service delivery
- Process and outcome in psychotherapy and mental health nursing
Recent publications:
- Stevenson, C. (2008) Therapeutic communications in mental health nursing. In: J. Morrissy, B. Keogh and L. Doyle (eds.), Psychiatric/Mental health Nursing – Concepts, Application, Challenges and Reflections: An Irish Perspective. Dublin: Gill & Macmillan.
- Cutcliffe, J. and Stevenson, C. (2008) Never the twain? Reconciling National Suicide Prevention Strategies with the practice, educational and policy needs of psychiatric/mental health nurses part one. International Journal of Mental Health, 17: 341-350.
- Cutcliffe, J. and Stevenson, C. (2008) Never the twain? Reconciling National Suicide Prevention Strategies with the practice, educational and policy needs of psychiatric/mental health nurses part two. International Journal of Mental Health, 17: 351-362.
- Walsh, J., Stevenson, C., Cutcliffe, J. and Zinck, K. (accepted) Government, knowledge, power and resistance in mental health care: Creating a space for recovery focused psychiatric nursing care/ Nursing Inquiry
- Cutcliffe, J. and Stevenson, C. (2008) A response to Anderson and Jenkins: ‘The National Suicide Prevention Strategy for England: the reality of a national strategy for the nursing profession. Journal of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing, 15: 154-160.
- Abba, N., Chadwick, P. and Stevenson, C. (2008, on line new articles August 2007) Responding mindfully to psychosis: A grounded theory analysis. Psychotherapy Research, 189:77-87.
- Cutcliffe, J. and Stevenson, C. (2008, available on line 2 April 2007) Feeling our way in the dark: the psychiatric/mental health care of suicidal people. International Journal of Nursing Science, 45: 942-953.
- Cutcliffe, JR., Stevenson, C., Jackson, S., & Smith, P. (2007) Re-connecting the person with humanity - how psychiatric nurses work with suicidal people. Crisis: The Journal of Crisis Intervention and Suicide Prevention 28: 207-210. Stevenson, C. (2007) Practical inquiry, practical theory in nursing. In: P.G. Reed and N.C. Shearer (eds.), Perspectives on Nursing Theory (5th Edition). London: Lippencott, Williams & Wilkins.
- Stastny, P., Ahern, L. and Stevenson, C. (2007) International cooperation of practitioners in alternative approaches: the example of INTAR (International Network of Treatment Alternatives for Recovery). In: P.Lehman and P. Stastny (eds.), Alternatives Beyond Psychiatry. Lehman Publishing: Berlin.
- Macgabhann, L. and Stevenson C. (2007) The buzzing, blooming confusion of clinical practice: Preparing mental health nurses to generate knowledge within, from and for practice. In: T. Stickley and T. Bassett (eds.), Teaching and Learning About Mental Health. Chichester: Wiley.
- Cutcliffe, J. and Stevenson, C. (2007) Care of the Suicidal Person. Oxford: Elsevier.
- Jubb, M. and Stevenson, C. (2006, invited paper) Clinical Supervision Revisited. Journal of Nursing Management, 14: 586-592.
- Stevenson, C. and Cutcliffe, J. (2006) Problematising special observations in psychiatry: Foucault, genealogy, discourse and power/knowledge. Journal of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing, 13(6): 713-721.
- Cutcliffe, J., Stevenson, C., Jackson, S. Smith, P. (2006) A Modified Grounded Theory Study of How Psychiatric Nurses Work With Suicidal People. International Journal of Nursing Studies, 43 (7): 791-802.
- Stevenson, C. (2006) Qualifying nursing research. In: J. Cutcliffe and M. Ward (eds.), Key Debates in Psychiatric and Mental Health Care. Oxford: Elsevier. Stevenson, C. (2005 invited paper) Postmodernising clinical supervision in nursing. Issues in Mental Health Nursing: 29: 519-529.
- Stevenson, C. (2005) Practical inquiry, practical theory in nursing. Journal of Advanced Nursing, 50: 196-203.
- Ellis, D., Jackson, S. and Stevenson, C. (2005) A concept analysis of support. In: J. Cutcliffe and H. McKenna (eds.) Essential Concepts in Nursing. Oxford: Elsevier.
- Stevenson, C. (2004) Theoretical and methodological approaches in discourse analysis. Nurse Researcher, 12(2) 17-29.
- Gray, C., Reed, A., Williams, T. and Stevenson, C. (2004) Systemic Therapy for Eating Distress. Clinical Psychology Forum, 43: 45-47.
Current Projects:
- Building a recovery knowledge network
- Building a Mental Health Knowledge Community
- Meaningful responses from services and professionals in relation to the needs of suicidal men aged 16-34 in Northern Ireland and Republic of Ireland
Editorial Activities
- 2004 -2005 Editorial Board, Journal of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing
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Reproduced Journal of Advanced Nursing paper