Employment as a predictor of mental health, psychological distress, anxiety and depression in Australian pre-registration nursing students.

Background: Caring for self by maintaining emotional well-being is important for pre-registration nursing students if they are to graduate as confident and competent health professionals.

Purpose: The purpose of this cross-sectional study was to identify the predictors of emotional well-being of pre-registration nursing students by measuring their levels of anxiety, depression, behavioural control, positive affect and general distress.

Method: A cross-sectional study designed facilitated an examination of the level of emotional well-being of pre-registration nursing students (enrolled in their first, second and third year) in an Australian university across five campuses using the Mental Health Index (MHI).

The use of van Kaam's psychophenomenological method to interpret the meaning of resilience in the experiences of people with schizophrenia.

Background: Phenomenology is a suitable method for investigating people's experiences and van Kaam's psychophenomenological model (PPM) is increasingly being used in nursing research.

Aim: To describe the use of PPM to interpret the meaning of resilience in the experiences of people with schizophrenia.

Discussion: Semi-structured interviews were conducted with a purposive sample of 14 people with schizophrenia.

'Things you can't learn from books': teaching recovery from a lived experience perspective.

Mental health policy in Australia is committed to the development of recovery-focused services and facilitating consumer participation in all aspects of mental health service delivery. Negative attitudes of mental health professionals have been identified as a major barrier to achieving these goals. Although the education of health professionals has been identified as a major strategy, there is limited evidence to suggest that consumers are actively involved in this education process.