title: The Tidal Model: developing an empowering, person-centred approach to recovery within psychiatric and mental health nursing.
abstract: Nursing theories and nursing models have a low profile within psychiatric and mental health nursing in the United Kingdom. This paper describes the philosophical and theoretical background of the Tidal Model, which emerged from a 5-year study of the 'need for psychiatric nursing'. The Tidal Model extends and develops some of the traditional assumptions concerning the centrality of interpersonal relations within nursing practice. The model also integrates discrete processes for re-empowering the person who is disempowered by mental distress or psychiatric services or both. The paper reports briefly on the ongoing evaluation of the model in practice.
authors.affiliation: ProPsychiatric Nursing Practice, University of Newcastle, Department of Psychiatry, Royal Victoria Infirmary, Newcastle Upon Tyne NE1 4LP, UK.
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Barker
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000451:nursing* / Q000523:psychology; D016294:Models, Nursing; D009723:Nurse-Patient Relations; D009742:Nursing Theory; D011209:Power, Psychological; D011568:Psychiatric Nursing; D006113:United Kingdom