This Journal was conceived during a research conference in Manchester. Over the plenary research session Bill Whitfield was bemoaning the lack of a research journal specifically for psychiatric nursing, when he was challenged to do it himself.
On return to the University of Southampton, Bill Whitfield and Paul Shelley decided to take up the challenge to create and develop a research journal. For some years both shared an interest in the practice of cognitive-behavioural therapy and family care in schizophrenia, and were stimulated by the published research. The gestation period was almost two years, but both medical and pharmacological help generously assisted the Journal's birth, in 1994. Two small grants from the Wessex Medical Trust and Jansen Pharmaceuticals provided the initial capital to publish the first editions.
What of the present? Bill Whitfield is now retired and are able to devote more time to our personal vocation, to produce an affordable journal that informs and influences clinical practice, management and academia. Sadly in February 2007 Paul Shelley (Associate Editor)
passed away.
Editor:
William Whitfield
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William Whitfield BA. LLM. RGN.
RMN.Dip N. RNT. FRSH. was
a lecturer at the University of Surrey, and Southampton, a
research supervisor in pyschosis, cognitive-behavioural and
family therapies. He was an external examiner to the Universities
of Manchester, Wales and London [Institute of Psychiatry].
A writer and presenter of many papers
international and national conferences. He was awarded a Nightingale
Fellowship in 1992. He was elected a member of council, of
the Royal Society of Health, of which is a fellow.
An expert witness to the courts on
professional negligence and mental issues; was elected an
Associate of the British Academy of Forensic Sciences, and
is a founder member of the Bolam Society and a law graduate.
He is a Priest in the Church of England.
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Associate Editor:
The late Paul Shelley
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The late Paul Shelley MA. RMN. FETC.Cert
Ed. RNT. FRSH. trained as
a psychiatric nurse in Birmingham and worked as a CPN. For
12 years worked as a Senior Psychiatric Nurse Community in
Southampton. Became a Nurse Tutor in 1990 and a Lecturer at
Southampton University in 1995 until 2001. Elected Wessex
Representative to the Community Psychiatric Nursing Association
of the United Kingdom between 1981-1984.
Became a member of the Southampton
and South West Hampshire Health Authority Committee on the
Drugs and Alcohol Advisory Standing Committee. Elected Fellow
of The Royal Society of Health and a Member of the RCN Mental
Health Society Interest Group. Awarded the British Medical
Association Certificate of Educational Merit for producing
the Video: Family Therapy - A Behavioural Approach (Trained
as a Family Therapist by Professor I Falloon).
A writer and presenter of many papers
at international and national conferences. Consultant to the
National (NSF) Officers in Surrey concerning the National
Schizophrenic Fellowship Carer's Education and Support Project
in Dover/Deal, South Birmingham in 1996. More recently Consultant
Family Therapist to the new Portsmouth/Southampton Carer's
course organised by COMPASS (NSF). Full Member of the NSF
Southampton family support group.
Sadly Paul died in February 2007.
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