PMID- 24717267 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20140930 LR - 20211021 IS - 1748-2631 (Electronic) IS - 1748-2623 (Print) IS - 1748-2623 (Linking) VI - 9 DP - 2014 TI - Problematization of perspectives on health promotion and empowerment in mental health nursing--within the research network "MeHNuRse" and the Horatio conference, 2012. PG - 22945 LID - 10.3402/qhw.v9.22945 [doi] AB - Mental illness is increasing worldwide, while society's response seems to be a trend toward narrower and more specialized mental health care. This development is creating great demands on mental health nurses to include a health promotion perspective in care and support of persons with mental illness. A health promotion perspective emphasizes cooperation and communication with people who suffer from long-term mental illness, focusing on their independence and health. From a health perspective, every human being is an actor in his/her own life, with an inherent ability to make his/her own choices. However, persons who suffer from long-term mental illness are at risk of losing power and control over areas of their lives and their health. Mental health nurses are in a position to support these individuals in promoting health and in maintaining or regaining control over their lives. The emphasis of this paper is to problematize mental health nurses' responsibility to provide health-promoting nursing care in relation to empowerment by means of emancipation, self-efficacy, and self-management. We argue that mental health nurses can work from a health-promoting perspective by using these concepts and that this challenges some of the traditional ideas of health promotion in mental health nursing. The theoretical background discussions in this paper have their origin in the research network "Mental Health Nursing Research in Scandinavia" (MeHNuRse) and from the professional discussions developed during a 2012 workshop that included mental health nurses and researchers at the European Horatio Festival in Stockholm. FAU - Jonsson, Patrik D AU - Jonsson PD AD - Department of Research, Development and Education (FoUU), Region of Halland, Halmstad, Sweden; School of Social and Health Sciences, Halmstad University, Halmstad, Sweden; patrik.dahlqvist-jonsson@regionhalland.se. FAU - Nunstedt, Hakan AU - Nunstedt H AD - Department of Nursing, Health and Culture, University West, Trollhattan, Sweden. FAU - Berglund, Inger J AU - Berglund IJ AD - Skaraborg Hospital, Skovde, Sweden. FAU - Ahlstrom, Britt H AU - Ahlstrom BH AD - Department of Nursing, Health and Culture, University West, Trollhattan, Sweden. FAU - Hedelin, Birgitta AU - Hedelin B AD - Department of Nursing, Gjovik University College, Gjovik, Norway. FAU - Skarsater, Ingela AU - Skarsater I AD - School of Social and Health Sciences, Halmstad University, Halmstad, Sweden. FAU - Jormfeldt, Henrika AU - Jormfeldt H AD - School of Social and Health Sciences, Halmstad University, Halmstad, Sweden. LA - eng PT - Journal Article PT - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't PT - Review DEP - 20140408 PL - United States TA - Int J Qual Stud Health Well-being JT - International journal of qualitative studies on health and well-being JID - 101256506 SB - IM MH - Health Promotion/*methods MH - Humans MH - Mental Disorders/nursing/*rehabilitation MH - *Nurse's Role MH - *Power, Psychological MH - Psychiatric Nursing/education/*methods MH - Scandinavian and Nordic Countries MH - Self Care/methods MH - *Self Efficacy MH - Surveys and Questionnaires PMC - PMC3982111 OTO - NOTNLM OT - Emancipation OT - empowerment OT - health promotion OT - mental health nursing OT - self-efficacy OT - self-management EDAT- 2014/04/11 06:00 MHDA- 2014/10/01 06:00 PMCR- 2014/04/08 CRDT- 2014/04/11 06:00 PHST- 2014/04/11 06:00 [entrez] PHST- 2014/04/11 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2014/10/01 06:00 [medline] PHST- 2014/04/08 00:00 [pmc-release] AID - 22945 [pii] AID - 10.3402/qhw.v9.22945 [doi] PST - epublish SO - Int J Qual Stud Health Well-being. 2014 Apr 8;9:22945. doi: 10.3402/qhw.v9.22945. eCollection 2014.