With contributions from nursing academics, researchers, service users, and practitioners, Mental Health Nursing Skills provides students with an accessible, evidence-based, and practical account of the skills required for nursing practice.

Patrick Callaghan is the Associate Pro Vice-Chancellor for research and Professor of Mental Health Science at London South Bank University, UK. A Mental Health Nurse, Chartered Health Psychologist, Chartered Health Scientist, and Principal Fellow of the UK Higher Education Academy, Professor Callaghan has worked in mental health for 30 years. He was the first elected Chair of Mental Health Nurse Academics UK, led the education group of the Chief Nursing Officer's Review of Mental Health Nursing in England in 2005, and is a former non-executive director of the Mental Health Act Commission in England. In 2010 he received the Eileen Skellern Memorial Lecture for his contribution to Mental Health Nursing, and in 2016 the Winifred Raphael Memorial Lecture by the Royal College of Nursing. In 2018 he was appointed a National Teaching Fellow, and in 2019 received the Journal of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing's Lifetime Achievement Award for outstanding contribution to mental health nursing.
Tommy Dickinson is Professor of Nursing Education and Head of the Department of Mental Health Nursing at King's College London, UK. He is a dual-qualified (adult & mental health) registered nurse. Following a clinical career in social care nursing he moved to an academic role in 2007. In 2018 he received the prestigious endowed Talbott Visiting Professor of Nursing at the University of Virginia. While in the US he gained clinical experience in the Ryan White HIV Clinic and the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioural Sciences' inpatient ward. In 2021 Professor Dickinson became the first and only UK-based nurse to be selected for a Fellowship in the USA's National League for Nursing's Academy of Nursing Education. He is Honorary Professor of Nursing at Queen's University Belfast, Fellow of the American Academy of Nursing and the European Academy of Nursing Science, and an Editorial Board member of the Journal of Nursing Education and the Journal of American Nurses Association- New York.
Anne Felton is the Head of the Institute of Health and Allied Professions at Nottingham Trent University, UK. Over three years, she has led the introduction of 15 new programmes in nursing, paramedicine, and continuing professional development. Dr Felton began her mental health nursing career promoting recovery approaches in the community before moving to an academic role. She has led several projects related to the participation of people with health conditions in professional education, simulation, and student mental health. She is committed to enhancing the care experiences of people using health services, through her own teaching practice and more recently through developing high performing teams delivering excellent education and research in the healthcare field. Dr Felton undertakes qualitative research with expertise in shared decision making, co-production, and critical perspectives of risk, which has been widely disseminated.