Neil Murphy

Lecturer

  • Mary Seacole 3.22
  • T: 0161 295 7120
  • E: n.a.murphy@salford.ac.uk
  • SEEK: Research profile

Office Times

8.30am - 5.00pm

Biography

Before moving to a full-time post as a lecturer at the university I was employed as a lecturer practitioner (2002-2010). Prior to that I worked in a variety of roles in mental health teams in the Greater Manchester West Foundation Trust. The main role was around community mental health care and practice development.

Teaching

Teach on a range of pre and post registration courses. I act as a fieldwork supervisor for the Advanced Practitioner MSc.

Main interest focus of teaching is related to CBT and Family Interventions.

Research Interests

Media and mental health.

Risk

Family Interventions

Qualifications and Memberships

I am a Mental Health Nurse and continue to practice (honorary contract) at a community mental health team base in Trafford.

I have an MSc in Practice Development (research).

I am an external examiner at the Metropolitan University of Leeds.

Publications

  

Articles

Murphy, N, Fatoye, F and Wibberley, C 2012, 'The changing face of newspaper representations of the mentally ill ' , Journal of Mental Health, pp. 1-12.

Murphy, N 2012, 'Examining the influences behind risk thinking' , Mental Health Nursing, 32(5), pp 10-11.

Murphy, NA and Cutts, H 2009, 'Can the introduction of a quality of life tool affect individual professional practice and the quality of care planning in a community mental health team?' , Journal of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing, 16 (10). pp. 941-946.

Murphy, NA 2007, 'Development of family interventions: a 9-month pilot study' , British Journal of Nursing, 16 (15). pp. 948-952.

 Murphy, NA 2005, 'Assessing the risk of violence from clients' ,

Community Mental Health, 3 (3). pp. 10-11.

Murphy, NA 2004, 'An investigation into how community mental health nurses assess the risk of violence from their clients' , Journal of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing, 11 (4) , pp. 407-413.

 

Book Section

Murphy, N 2013, 'Stress, anxiety and coping' , in: Foundations of Nursing Practice : the fundamentals of holistic care, 2nd revised edition , Mosby-Elsevier, Oxford, pp. 241-260.

Hoggarth, G and Murphy, NA 2007, 'Stress anxiety and coping' , in: Foundations of nursing practice, Elsevier, Edinburgh, pp. 277-298.

 

Book

Withnell, N and Murphy, NA 2012, Family interventions in mental health , Open University Press.

 

Thesis

Murphy, N 2006, An investigation into whether the level of experience affects the way that CMHNs assess the level of risk from clients , MSc By research thesis, Manchester Metropolitan University.