Interesting New Paper
"Using the Tidal Model of Mental Health Recovery to Plan Primary Health Care for Women in Residential Substance Abuse Recovery" Brenda B. Young (Miami University, Department of Nursing, Hamilton, Ohio, USA)
Issues in Mental Health Nursing Aug 2010, Vol. 31, No. 9: 569–575.
New Book: Mental Health Ethics: The Human Context
Edited by Phil Barker
Published November 2nd 2010 (Click here for more details)

Details of the Nordic Conference of Mental Health Nursing have been announced. (Click here)

(July) The latest Tidal Newsletter (#4) is now available. Click here to download your free copy.
The Second Edition of Phil Barker's edited textbook - Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing: The Craft of Caring - has been published. Click here for more details.
The latest Tidal Newsletter is now available as a pdf. Click here to download your free copy.

Poppy and Phil participated in the Horatio Festival of Psychiatric Nursing - the Age of Dialogue, in Malta. (Click for details and pictures)

Poppy and Phil participated in a Tidal Model symposium at the Pacific Rim Psychiatry Conference in Tokyo - Oct 30-Nov 2nd. (Click for details and pictures)

Poppy and Phil made a Tidal presentation at Meiji Gakuin University, Tokyo. (Click for details and pictures)

Poppy Buchanan-Barker and Phil Barker have won this year's “Thomas S. Szasz Award for Outstanding Contributions to the Cause of Civil Liberties" In New York. (Click for details)

Dr Nancy Brookes and Celia Li from Ottawa made a Tidal presentation at the International conference - Nurses: The Solution in Health Care Transformation held in Beijing, China - October 21 – 24, 2008. (Click for details and pictures)
September 2008 - Issue 2 of the Tidal Newsletter
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Celebrating Ten years of the Tidal Model. Read our first 'message in a bottle' - the launch of the Tidal Newsletter.

Launch of the Revised Tidal Model Manual: This 125 page manual describes the practice of the Tidal Model in detail.
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Obituary: Famous New Zealand psychiatric nurse and psychodrama teacher, Mike Consedine, dies in Christchurch.
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Lifetime Achievement Award: Professor Phil Barker received the inaugural Journal of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing Lifetime Achievement Award, in London.
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