Assessing and managing communication needs in people with serious mental illness.

This article focuses on five areas of communication, speech and language - receptive language, expressive language, speech, social communication and swallowing - to increase nurses' confidence in assessing communication needs and making appropriate referrals to speech and language therapy services. The authors also suggest therapeutic interventions that nurses can use to reduce the effects of speech and language difficulties among people with SMI. PMID: 29938449 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Nursing Standard - Category: Nursing Authors: Tags: Nurs Stand Source Type: research