Len
Bowers, RMN, PhD, (47), based in Wimbledon, South West London, UK, is a psychiatric
nurse who has over two decades' experience of inpatient and community psychiatric
care. For the past seven years he has been in post at City University as Professor
of Psychiatric Nursing, where his main research interest is conflict and containment
in psychiatric nursing care. Recent research projects have investigated absconding,
attitudes to personality disordered patients, violent incidents, and special observation.
Len is director of the European
Violence in Psychiatry Research Group, which is composed of leading researchers
in the field from 16 countries. He has spoken about his research programme at
many national and international conferences across the UK and Europe. Other areas
of interest include coercion in the compulsory care process and in community psychiatry
generally; ward cultures and milieu, care pathways; and international networking
of psychiatric nurses via the Internet (Len has run an international Internet
discussion forum for psychiatric nurses since 1993, which has over 600 members
and is the subject of numerous publications).
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