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John Rawlinson

  • Job title: Academic Lead in Mental Health, School of Applied Psychosocial Sciences
  • Address: Room 216, Nancy Astor Building, Drake Circus,
    Plymouth, Devon, PL4 8AA
  • Postal address: Room 216, Nancy Astor Building, Drake Circus,
    Plymouth, Devon, PL4 8AA
  • Telephone: +44 (0)1752 586627
  • Email: J.Rawlinson@plymouth.ac.uk


Qualifications & background

Qualifications:
MN RGN RMN DipN CertEd FHEA

Background:
I first trained in general nursing at St George's, London, specialising in operating theatres (including two years in South Africa) and neurosurgery. This was followed by Mental Health Nurse training and specialisation in Community Mental Health Nursing in Bristol. I’ve worked in education since 1986, first at the Avon and Gloucestershire College of Health (latterly UWE), followed by three years as a lecturer at University of Wales College of Medicine in Cardiff, these latter posts included brief secondments in Bucharest and Athens, finally moving to the University of Plymouth in 1996. I Moved to Devon in 1996 and Dartmoor in 1999. I am married with grown up children.

Professional interests:
My professional interests include the specialist areas of Community Mental Health, Psychotherapy and Counselling, Psychodrama, Personal Construct Theory and Repertory Grid Technique and general mental health policy, legislation and service development. My published work includes book chapters on community psychiatric nursing and mental health nursing, a review of the effectiveness of psychodrama psychotherapy and critical reflections on the use of the Repertory Grid Technique. From 2005-2008 I was a member of the NICE Guideline Development Group for Prostate Cancer (Guideline published Feb 2008).

 




Publications

Publications:

Rawlinson J.W. (2009) Mental Health. in Glasper A. McEwing G. and Richardson J. (eds.) Foundation Studies for Caring - Using Student Based Learning (2nd ed). London, Palgrave Macmillan. Chapter 26 pp529-550 (see: http://www.palgrave.com/nursinghealth/glasper/)

National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) and National Collaborating Centre for Cancer (NCCC) (2008) Prostate Cancer: Diagnosis and Treatment London, NICE (Clinical Guideline 58) (Guideline Development Group member)

Rawlinson J.W. (2003) Insights into Mental Health Nursing. in Grandis S., Long G., Glasper A. and Jackson P. (eds.) (2000) Foundations Studies for Nursing - Using Enquiry Based Learning. London, Palgrave Macmillan. Chapter 6 pp174-207

Rawlinson J.W. (2000) Does psychodrama work?: a review of the literature British Journal of Psychodrama and Sociodrama Vol 15 (2) pp66-101

Rawlinson J.W. (1995) Some reflections on the use of repertory grid technique in studies of nurses and social workers Journal of Advanced Nursing Vol. 21 pp334-339 

Rawlinson J.W. (1993) Psychiatric nurses, general nurses and social workers: an exploration of repertory grid technique. (Abstract) Inprint Vol. 1 (no 2) pp56-57.

Rawlinson J.W. (1993) A study of the roles and workloads of nurse teachers in the Avon and Gloucestershire College of Health. (Abstract) Inprint Vol. 1 (no 1) pp56-57.

Rawlinson J.W. (1993) Developing mental health nursing education in Romania. Nurse Education Today Vol. 13 (no 3) pp225-231.

Rawlinson J.W. and Brown A.C. (1992) The Community Psychiatric Nurse Scottish Medicine Vol. 11 (no 6) pp8-9

Rawlinson J.W. and Brown A.C. (1991) Community Psychiatric Nursing in Britain. In Freeman H. and Bennett D. (eds.) Community Psychiatry Edinburgh, Churchill Livingstone.

Rawlinson J.W. (1990) Self Awareness: Conceptual influences, contribution to nursing, and approaches to attainment. Nurse Education Today Vol. 10 (no 2) pp111-117.

Rawlinson J.W. (1981) Labelled for Life? Nursing Mirror Vol. 152 (no 11) 12th March 1981 p.46-47

Conference Presentations

Range of presentations to local and national conferences including

ENB (1988) on Curriculum development;

ENB (2000) on Developing Inter-professional Education

RCN (2000) on Developing Inter-Professional Education

NHSE (2000) on Developing Inter-professional Education

CPNA (2000) on Personality Disorder;

CPNA (2001) on Mental Health Act reform

NHSE (2002) on Developing Inter-professional Education

University of Plymouth Satellite Seminar series (2003) on NICE schizophrenia guidelines): http://ils403.uopnet.plymouth.ac.uk/tvb/ihs100403_12_56k.html  (56 K modem) http://ils403.uopnet.plymouth.ac.uk/tvb/ihs100403_12_isdn.html  (ISDN) http://ils403.uopnet.plymouth.ac.uk/tvb/ihs100403_12_bb.html  (Broadband)

MHNA (2004) on Personality Disorder capabilities

MHNA (2005) 'Rolling over' on Mental Health Worker roles (see http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3949/is_200603/ai_n16111491/)

 



Links
Some useful mental health related websites

NB I endeavour to update this list regularly, but can not re-check all the sites. It is inevitable that URLs change or are removed, so please do let me know if you find that a site has been changed.

Alternative therapies for psychiatric disorders                http://www.mental-health-matters.com/

American Association of Suicideology                             http://www.suicidology.org/index.cfm

American Psychological Association (APA)                     http://www.apa.org/

Association for Family Therapy (AFT)                              http://www.aft.org.uk/index.html

Asylum on line (Magazine for Democratic psychiatry)    http://www.asylumonline.net

Audit Commission                                                               http://www.audit-commission.gov.uk/

AtHealth (mental health resources)                                    http://athealth.com

Bandolier (Evidence Based Medicine)                              http://www.jr2.ox.ac.uk/bandolier/index.html

Bath Information and Data Services (BIDS)                      http://www.bids.ac.uk/

BDP Central (Borderline Personality Disorder)                http://www.bpdcentral.com/

Behavioral Technology Transfer Group (DBT training)  http://www.behavioraltech.com/

Best Treatments (Evidence for patients from BMJ)          http://www.besttreatments.co.uk/

British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies             http://www.babcp.org.uk/

British Association for Counselling &Psychotherapy     http://www.bacp.co.uk/

British Association of Psychotherapists                           http://www.bap-psychotherapy.org/

British Confederation of Psychotherapists                       http://www.bcp.org.uk/

British Journal of Psychiatry                                              http://bjp.rcpsych.org/

British Medical Journal                                                       http://www.bmj.com/

British National Formulary (BNF)                                       http://www.bnf.org.uk/

British Psychological Society (BPS)                                  http://www.bps.org.uk/

Centre for Evidence Based Mental Health                         http://cebmh.warne.ox.ac.uk/cebmh/

Centre for Clinical Interventions: Psychotherapy; Research; Training          http://www.cci.health.wa.gov.au/

CHAIN (Contact, Help, Advice & Information Networks via NHSU)  http://www.nhsu.nhs.uk/webportal/chain/index.html

Clinical Governance Support Team                                  http://www.cgsupport.org/

Cochrane Library (better access via UoP electronic databases)

             http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/mrwhome/106568753/HOME 

Contact - a directory for mental health                              http://www.dh.gov.uk/assetRoot/04/01/94/48/04019448.pdf

Commission for Healthcare Audit and Inspection (CHAI)                http://www.chai.org.uk/

Commission for Social Care Inspection (CSCI)               http://www.csci.org.uk/

Community Care                                                                  http://www.community-care.co.uk

CPNA – see MHNA

Critical Psychiatry network                                                 http://www.criticalpsychiatry.co.uk

CORE – Clinical Outcomes in Routine Evaluation           http://coreims.co.uk/

CMHN Education and practice network                            http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/cmhn-education-and-practice.html

Dangerous and Severe Personality Disorder programme    http://www.dspdprogramme.gov.uk/

Dave Sheppard Associates (formerly IMHL)                     http://www.davesheppard.co.uk/

Department of Health                                                           http://www.dh.gov.uk/

Department of Health (Mental Health)                               

http://www.dh.gov.uk/PolicyAndGuidance/HealthAndSocialCareTopics/MentalHealth/fs/en

EBSCO (Electronic journal access)                                   http://ejournals.ebsco.com/Home.asp

ECT.org - shocked                                                              http://www.ect.org/

EPPIC (Early Psychosis Prevention and Intervention Centre)         http://www.eppic.org.au/

Evidence Based Mental Health                                           http://www.ebmentalhealth.com

FERN (First Episode Research Network)                          http://www.fernonline.org

Folk.us (service user, patient, carer involvement in research)        http://www.projects.ex.ac.uk/folk.us/

Google (Search engine)                                                     http://www.google.com/

Google Scholar (Academic Search engine)                     http://scholar.google.com/

Government Information Service                                       http://www.open.gov.uk/

Healthcare Commission                                                      http://www.healthcarecommission.org.uk/ 

Health Guide: Health related internet resources               http://healthguide.co.uk/

Health of the Nation Outcome Scales (HoNOS)               http://www.rcpsych.ac.uk/cru/honoscales/index.htm

Health Professions Council (HPC)                                    http://www.hpc-uk.org/

Health Service Journal                                                        http://www.hsj.co.uk/

Healthwork UK                                                                     see ‘Skills for Health’

Hearing Voices Group (Gloucester)                                  http://www.hearingvoices.org.uk

Henderson Hospital (& Democratic Therapeutic Community)         http://www.swlstg-tr.nhs.uk/henderson/default.htm

Higher Education Academy (HEA) (formerly ILTHE)        http://www.heacademy.ac.uk/

Huntington's Disease Association:                                    http://www.hda.org.uk/

Huntington's Disease Clinic                                               http://www.kumc.edu/parkinson/clserHD.html

Huntington's Disease Information page                            http://www.euronet.nl/users/ragman/huntingtons.html

Huntington's Disease medical web page                          http://rattler.cameron.edu/huntingtons/

Huntington's Disease Society of America (HDSA)            http://www.hdsa.org/

Institute for Mental Health Law (IMHL)                               http://www.imhl.com  (see also Dave Sheppard Associates)

Institute of Family Therapy                                                 http://www.instituteoffamilytherapy.org.uk/

Institute of Health Care Management                                 http://www.ihm.org.uk/home.cfm

Institute of Mental Health Act Practitioners                        http://www.imhap.co.uk/ 

Institute of Psychiatry                                                          http://www.iop.kcl.ac.uk/

Internet Mental Health                                                         http://www.mentalhealth.com/

Internurse                                                                             http://www.internurse.com

Intute: Health & life sciences (replaced OMNI & NMAP)   http://www.intute.ac.uk/healthandlifesciences/ 

Jobs (and research)                                                            http://www.jobs.ac.uk/

Journal of Advanced Nursing                                            http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/journal.asp?ref=0309-2402&site=1

Journal of Clinical Nursing                                                 http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/journal.asp?ref=0962-1067&site=1

Kiersey temperament and character                                  http://www.keirsey.com/

Knowledge Community (formerly NIMHE KC)                   http://kc.csip.org.uk/

The Lancet                                                                            http://www.thelancet.com

Learning and Teaching Support Network (Health)          http://www.health.ltsn.ac.uk/

LinksWork (Psycho-Social Interventions – Sheffield)     http://www.mentalhealthsheffield.com/index.html

Map of Medicine                                                                  http://mapofmedicine.com/  

Health Guides                                                      http://healthguides.mapofmedicine.com/choices/terms.htm?next=/map/index.html

Medicines Control Agency                                                 http://www.mca.gov.uk

Medscape – psychiatry                                                       http://psychiatry.medscape.com/Home/Topics/psychiatry/psychiatry.html

Mental Health Act Guide                                                      http://www.hyperguide.co.uk/mha

Mental Health First Aid            http://www.mhfaengland.org.uk/
Mental Health Foundation                                                  http://www.mentalhealth.org.uk

Mental Health in Higher Education                                  http://www.mhhe.heacademy.ac.uk/

Mental Health Lawyers (Anselm Eldergill)                         http://www.mentalhealthlawyers.com/main.htm

Mental Health Nurses Association (MHNA) (formerly CPNA)           http://www.amicus-mhna.org

Mental Health Practice (RCN)                                             http://www.mentalhealthpractice.co.uk

Mental Health Services - local directories                         http://www.dur.ac.uk/service.mapping/amh/localDirectory/directory.php

Mental Health Today (not the UK Journal)                        http://www.mental-health-today.com/index.htm

Mentality                                                                               http://www.mentality.org.uk/

MIND                                                                                     http://www.mind.org.uk

National Association of Psychiatric Intensive Care Units                http://www.napicu.org.uk/

National Confidential Inquiry into Suicide and Homicide by People with Mental Illness

/Centre for Suicide Prevention                        http://www.medicine.manchester.ac.uk/suicideprevention/nci/

National Early Intervention Programme (NEIP) http://www.rethink.org/about_mental_illness/early_intervention/the_national_early_intervention_programme/

National Institute for Health & Clinical Excellence (NICE)                http://www.nice.org.uk/

National Institute for Health Research (NIHR)                            http://www.nihr.ac.uk/ :

National Institute for Health Research- NRR Archive                https://portal.nihr.ac.uk/Pages/default.aspx 

National Mental Health Development Unit -    http://www.nmhdu.org.uk/
National Library for Health                                                           http://www.library.nhs.uk/  

Specialist Mental Health Library                                      http://www.library.nhs.uk/mentalhealth/  

National Personality Disorder website – personality plus     http://www.personalitydisorder.org.uk

National Research Ethics Service (NRES)                        http://www.nres.npsa.nhs.uk/

National Schizophrenia Fellowship (NSF)                       see ‘rethink’

National Statistics website                                                  http://www.statistics.gov.uk/default.asp

“       Social Trends                                                  http://www.statistics.gov.uk/products/p5748.asp

National Treatment Agency (substance misuse)              http://www.nta.nhs.uk/

Network for Psychiatric Nursing Research                       http://www.man.ac.uk/rcn/ukwide/npnr.html

The NHS in England – ‘NHS Choices’                               http://www.nhs.uk/

NHS Centre for reviews and dissemination                      http://www.york.ac.uk/inst/crd/

NHS Confederation                                                             http://www.nhsconfed.net

NHS Direct                                                                            http://www.nhsdirect.nhs.uk

NHS On-line                                                                         http://www.nhsonline.net/

NHSU (NHS university)                                                       http://www.nhsu.nhs.uk/

NMHC (Norfolk MHC trust drugs index)                            http://www.nmhct.nhs.uk/pharmacy/

Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC)                              http://www.nmc-uk.org

Official-documents                                                              http://www.official-documents.co.uk/

Pavilion Publishing (Education for mental health, learning disability)           http://www.pavpub.com

Parliament                                                                             http://www.publications.parliament.uk/

Peninsula Mental Health Research Network                     http://www.pms.ac.uk/mentalhealth/index.htm

Peninsula Primary Care Research Management & Governance Unit              http://www.swpctresearch.nhs.uk/index.html

Peninsula Research & Development Support Unit (RDSU)              http://www.projects.ex.ac.uk/prdsu/index.htm

Personal Experiences of Health and Illness                     http://www.dipex.org

Primary Care Mental Health and Education                      http://www.primhe.org/index.cfm

Psychiatric Bulletin (RCPsch)                                            http://pb.rcpsych.org/

Psychiatric Nursing Network/mailbase                              http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/psychiatric-nursing.html

Public Health Resource Unit                                               http://www.phru.nhs.uk/

Psychiatric Pharmacy Group                                              http://www.ukppg.co.uk

British Psychodrama Association (BPA)                           http://gparrott.gotadsl.co.uk/BPA

Psychodrama UK                                                              http://www.psychodrama.org.uk

Worldwide Psychodrama                                                http://www.psychodrama.com/

Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education (QAA)  http://www.qaa.ac.uk/

Recovery Devon                                                                  http://www.recoverydevon.co.uk/

Rethink (formerly NSF)                                                       http://www.rethink.org

Royal College of Nursing                                                   http://www.rcn.org.uk/index.php

Royal College of Psychiatrists                                           http://www.rcpsych.ac.uk

Sainsbury Centre for Mental Health                                   http://www.scmh.org.uk/wbm23.ns4/WebLaunch/LaunchMe

The Samaritans                                                                    http://www.samaritans.org

ScHARR - Netting the evidence                                         http://www.shef.ac.uk/~scharr/ir/netting/

Schizophrenia.com                                                             http://www.schizophrenia.com

Skills for Health (National Occupational Standards)       http://195.10.235.25/standards_database/index.htm

Social & Health Electronic Resources Portal                    http://www.sherpa.nhs.uk/ 
South West Development Centre (replaced CSIP SW)    http://www.swdc.org.uk/

Star Wards                                                                            http://starwards.org.uk/

SWORD (SW Centre for Education-Research-Development)          http://www.sword.nhs.uk/

Synergy (Blackwell Science Journals)                              http://www.blackwell-synergy.com

That Nursing Site (Blackwell)                                             http://www.thatnursingsite.com/

The Stationery Office                                                           http://www.tso.co.uk/

Tidal Model (Phil Barker)                                                    http://www.tidal-model.co.uk/intro.htm

UK Clinical Ethics network                                                 http://www.ethics-network.org.uk/

UKCP                                                                                     http://www.ukcp.org.uk/

University of Plymouth                                                        http://www.plymouth.ac.uk

VISPED (Virtual Institute for Severe Personality Disorder)

http://www.dh.gov.uk/PolicyAndGuidance/ResearchAndDevelopment/ResearchAndDevelopmentAZ/ForensicMentalHealth/ForensicMentalHealthArticle/fs/en?CONTENT_ID=4002398&chk=Xbw/y4

World Health Organisation (WHO)                                   http://www.who.int/

World Federation for Mental Health                                  http://www.wfmh.com/index.html

The Zito Trust                                                                       http://www.zitotrust.co.uk/

 

Local Health Authorities and NHS Trusts providing Mental Health services:

Cornwall Partnership NHS Trust                                        http://www.cornwall.nhs.uk/cornwall_partnership_trust/

Devon Partnership NHS Trust                                            http://www.devonpartnership.nhs.uk/

Plymouth Hospitals Trust                                                    http://www.derriford.co.uk/

Plymouth teaching Primary Care Trust                              http://www.plymouth-pct.nhs.uk/

Somerset Partnership NHS and Social Care Trust            http://www.somerset-health.org.uk/sompar/index.html

 

NHS South West (South West SHA)                                   http://www.southwest.nhs.uk/

(on 1.7.2006 this replaced South West Peninsula Strategic Health Authority)

 

Cornwall Local Government                                               http://www.cornwall.gov.uk/

Devon Local Government                                                   http://www.devon-cc.gov.uk

Somerset Local Government                                              http://www.somerset.gov.uk



John W. Rawlinson