Tidal
Publications
The following papers
provide further information about the theoretical
and practical development of the Tidal Model
Books
Barker P and Buchanan-Barker P (2005) The Tidal
Model: A Guide for Mental Health Professionals.
London and New York, Brunner-Routledge
Brookes N (2005) Phil Barker: The Tidal Model of
Recovery and Reclamation. In AM Tomey & MR Alligood
(Eds) Nursing Theorists and Their Work (6th
Edition) St Louis: Mosby
Papers
Barker P (1996) Chaos and the Way of Zen:
Psychiatric nursing and the uncertainty principle.
Journal of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing
3, 235-244
Barker P (1997) A meta-theory of nursing practice.
Mental Health Practice 1(4) 18-21
Barker P (1998) Its time to turn the tide.
Nursing Times 94(46) 70-72
Barker P (2000) Turning the tide. Open Mind
106 Nov/Dec
Barker P, Leamy M
and Stevenson C (2000) The philosophy of
empowerment. Mental Health Nursing 20 (9)
8-12
Barker
P (2000) The Tidal Model of mental health care:
personal caring within the chaos paradigm. Mental
Health Care 4(2) 59-63
Barker P (2000) The Tidal Model: The lived
experience in person-centred mental health care.
Nursing Philosophy 2 (3) 213-223
Barker P (2001) The
Tidal Model: Developing an empowering,
person-centred approach to recovery within
psychiatric and mental health nursing. Journal of
Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing
8(3) 233-40
Barker P (2001) The Tidal Model: A radical approach
to person-centred care. Perspectives in
Psychiatric Care. 37(2)
Barker P (2002) The Tidal Model: The healing
potential of metaphor within the patient's
narrative. Journal of Psychosocial Nursing
40 (7) 42-50
Barker P (2003) The Tidal Model: Psychiatric
Colonisation, recovery and the paradigm shift in
mental health care. International Journal of
Mental Health Nursing, 12.
Barker P (2003)
Putting acute care in its place. Mental Health
Nursing 23 (1) 12-15
Barker P (2004) Uncommon sense: The Tidal Model of
mental health recovery New Therapist 33
(Sept/Oct) 14-19
Barker P and
Buchanan-Barker (2001) Apologising for our colonial
past. Openmind 112 Nov/Dec p 10
Barker
P and Buchanan-Barker P (2003) Death by
assimilation. Asylum 13 (3) 10-13
Barker P and
Buchanan-Barker P (2003) Beyond empowerment:
revering the storyteller Mental Health Practice 7
(5) 18-20
Barker P and Buchanan-Barker P (2004) Bridging:
Talking meaningfully about the care of people at
risk Mental Health Practice 8 3 12-16
Barker P and Buchanan-Barker P (2004) Caring as
craft. Nursing Standard 19 (9) 1718
Barker P, Jackson S
and Stevenson C (1999) The need for psychiatric
nursing: Towards a multidimensional theory of caring.
Nursing Inquiry 6, 103-111
Berger J L (2006) Incorporation of the Tidal Model
into the interdisciplinary plan of care - a program
quality improvement project. Journal of
Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing 13(4) 464-67
Brookes N Murata L and Tansey M (2006)
Guiding practice development using the Tidal
Commitments. Journal of Psychiatric and Mental
Health Nursing 13 (4) 460-63
Buchanan-Barker P (2004) The Tidal Model: Uncommon
sense Mental Health Nursing 24(3) 6-10
Buchanan-Barker P and Barker P (2002) Lunatic
language. Openmind 115, p 23
Buchanan-Barker P and Barker P (2004) Compassion:
More than a feeling Nursing Standard 19(11)
18-19
Buchanan-Barker P and Barker P (2005) Observation:
The original sin of mental health nursing.
Journal of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing
12(5) 541-9
Buchanan-Barker P and Barker P (2006) The Ten
Commitments: A value base for mental health
recovery.
Jl of Psychosocial
Nursing and Mental Health Services Vol. 44 No. 9, 29-33
Cook NR, Phillips BN and Sadler D (2005) The tidal
model as experienced by patients and nurses in a
regional forensic unit Journal of Psychiatric
and Mental Health Nursing 12 (5) 536-40
Fletcher E and Stevenson C (2001) Launching the
Tidal model in an adult mental health programme.
Nursing Standard 15 (49) 33-36
Gordon W, Morton T and Brooks G (2005) Launching the
Tidal Model : Evaluating the evidence. Journal of
Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing 12 (6)
703-12
Lafferty
S and Davidson R (2006) Person-Centred Care in
Practice: An account of the implementation of the
Tidal Model in an adult acute admission ward in
Glasgow. Mental Health Today (March) pp
31-34
Stevenson C, Barker P and Fletcher E (2002)
Judgement days: developing an evaluation for an
innovative nursing model. J Psychiatric and
Mental Health Nursing 9(3) 271-6
Stevenson C, Jackson
S and Barker P (2003) Finding solutions through
empowerment: a preliminary study of a
solution-oriented approach to nursing in acute
psychiatric settings. J Psych and Mental Health
Nursing 10 (6) 688-696

Stevenson
C and Fletcher E (2002) The Tidal Model: The
questions answered. Mental Health Practice 5(8)
29-37
