Stephen Williams
Health Studies
Bradford University
United Kingdom
Biography
Steve Williams is a lecturer-practitioner and field lead for mental health nursing at the University of Bradford. He teaches pre-registration mental health nursing with a focus on critical mental health approaches to recovery-oriented practice and post-registration courses in applying cognitive behavioural therapy into practice. A registered nurse since 2002 he has worked predominantly in working adult community mental health teams as a community mental health nurse specialist and as a clinical nurse specialist in Autism services. He currently works as a group therapist for his local trust. His interests are in applying psychological therapies within nursing and working with people with experiences of psychosis and long-term personality difficulties. He is also interested in the value of lived experience, autoethnography and narrative recovery.
Research Interest
Psychosis, SEMI, Recovery, Critical Mental Health, Narrative Enquiry, Ethnography, Autoethnography, Suicide Survival, Barriers
Publications
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Williams, S. (2016), Recovering from Psychosis: Empirical Evidence and Lived Experience, Routledge.
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McClelland, G. T. M, and Williams, S. (2016), Altered Mental States, in Torn, A. and Greasley, P. (2016), Psychology for Nurses, Polity Press.
