Books by Dean-David Holyoake
This book makes use of structural and post-structural analysis to give an informed discussion, ba... more This book makes use of structural and post-structural analysis to give an informed discussion, based on fieldwork data. The work is ethnographical and considers a synthesis of French philosophy regarding representation, image and cultural meaning in psychiatric nursing.
There appears to be a paucity of books directed towards child and adolescent mental health nursin... more There appears to be a paucity of books directed towards child and adolescent mental health nursing and those on the market are centred around a positivist, epistemological perspective, which more often renders a medical view of the problems encountered by the child, the family and the practitioner. This book does not attempt to provide answers to the multiplicity of problems encountered by service users and practitioners of child and adolescent mental health, rather, by utilising a post-modernist paradigm, the authors attempt, through dialogue, to further critically appraise the theoretical views and practical applications most widely used by nurses within the specialism.
An edited book exploring the multi-disciplinary nature of care and the role of the nurse for this... more An edited book exploring the multi-disciplinary nature of care and the role of the nurse for this speciality.
There are about 2 hundred adolescent units in hospitals & community care teams throughout the UK ... more There are about 2 hundred adolescent units in hospitals & community care teams throughout the UK dealing with young people who suffer from mental health problems and challenging behaviour. This book offers professionals a route to informing and educating the adolescents who, for one reason or another, are in their care. It uses the stories of five young people to explore the experience of being in an adolescent unit. For young people, their families and the staff, this book lays out issues such as boundaries, and medical consent, the ins & outs of the mental health system for young people (looked at critically), explaining jargon like 'therapeutic milieu', and generally explaining day to day life in an adolescent unit.
Papers by Dean-David Holyoake
Preprint, 2024
The authors are trained nurses who have worked with, researched and taught vulnerable groups in m... more The authors are trained nurses who have worked with, researched and taught vulnerable groups in mental health and learning disabilities in a variety of settings, and like many health and social care professionals, also experienced the effects of burnout. In this article, they explore solution focused (SF) conversations and their use in the issue of burnout in nursing. First, the authors consider the current literature on nursing burnout to set a scene for appreciating how SF offers a different conversational approach for nurses. Second, particularly, concepts of 'best hopes', 'preferred futures' and other useful techniques of 'difference' aim to help nurses re-evaluate burnout. Once practitioners begin to translate some of the SF theory into conversational practice, they can build a different relationship with what it means to be burnt out. And third, the authors offer a few figures and infographics on how to translate SF conversations to nurses who, given the chance, are more than capable of 'ferrying themselves' and others through the murky waters of burnout.
Preprint, 2024
According to Young Minds [1] 'everyone gets angry sometimes'. Their website offers a number of de... more According to Young Minds [1] 'everyone gets angry sometimes'. Their website offers a number of deescalating strategies, including staying calm, managing responses and setting limits to help young people who most deem resistive. Yet, Young Minds are not alone because such logical advice is ubiquitous in the literature about challenging behaviour despite the fact that in our experience when faced with high states of arousal, most young people tend to act first and deal with the consequences later. It's not that they are stupid or non-caring, but they are human capable of great feats as well as stupidity. The same is true for any claims that solution focused (SF) conversations can put right the several decades of psychological theory suggesting resistance requires logic and better cognition. By giving the correct thinking skills, young people will walk away from risk, avoid physical confrontation, handle challenging situations like logical thinkers, and generally discount that the process of growing up is part of the challenge. It is with this in mind that over recent years in our current SF practice (with staff group supervision) we have examined the concept of 'resistance' and how it can be put to use as a process of collaboration. To do this, we have revisited SF theory that preoccupied many of its pioneers during the 1980's and 1990's and attempted to make it useful for the early 2020's for professionals having conversations with young people, who, in traditional models, are labelled challenging. We want to introduce key differences of solution focused practice and how Anita started to formulate a 6D-SF model (details, dynamics, dimensions, dispositions, dislocations, descriptions) for contemplating how groups of professionals relate to each other and are triggered by challenging behaviour. We do not claim to have proof, logic or exactness on our side, but we're happy to suggest how our resistance mirrors what many of the staff teams feel and describe when working through their work.
Nursing Standard, Jul 12, 2006
Nursing Standard, Nov 19, 2003
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Nursing Standard, Jul 27, 2005
International Journal of Social Work and Human Services Practice, Apr 1, 2015
Nursing Standard, Sep 3, 2003
Recently I had an exhausting weekend watching reruns of Jamie Oliver cookery programmes. So imagi... more Recently I had an exhausting weekend watching reruns of Jamie Oliver cookery programmes. So imagine my enthusiasm during my Monday weekly shop at the supermarket when I spent a fortune on loads of stuff that I cannot even spell. I had been sold a dream. Even though I had gained more knowledge about the uses of tin foil, I had discovered that too many cooking programmes spoil the foil.
Nursing Standard, Nov 7, 2007
Nursing Standard, Apr 24, 2002
Nursing Standard, 2002
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Childhood Well-Being and Resilience, 2020
Nursing standard (Royal College of Nursing (Great Britain) : 1987), 1999
If we ban genetically modified food from our wards, we are assuming that it poses some type of ri... more If we ban genetically modified food from our wards, we are assuming that it poses some type of risk. I think that most nurses would want to protect their patients from any type of health risk.ect their patients from any type of health risk.
As I walked into the clinic that morning, I was bewildered with the distressing sight of the wome... more As I walked into the clinic that morning, I was bewildered with the distressing sight of the women waiting to be attended to by the midwives. My heart skipped in fright and I breathed deeply to control my anxiety. I can’t even explain why I felt that way, but it was obvious that the women were filled with so much misery for their immediate environment of no electricity, no comfortable sitting place, increase poverty and their pregnancy space. A thought came into my mind right there: “What a world of women, pregnancy today, child birth tomorrow, husband’s subjugation and all that”. It was only then that it occurred to me that it was all about my assumption. But I am part of this world, why am I different? Has something gone wrong with me? (Anastesia) No, in this world, things need to be understood as they are experienced not as how they appear [1].
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Books by Dean-David Holyoake
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