Tania Morris
Post Held
Senior Lecturer
Contact Details
Office: Brampton 14
Telephone: 01604 892389
Email: tania.morris@northampton.ac.uk
Qualifications
MSc (Social Research Methods), BSc (Hons) Mental Health Nursing, Certificate in Adult Education (CERT Ed), Registered Mental Nurse (RMN). Motivational Interviewer Trainer (MINT 2007).
Profile
Tania has 20 years experience in mental health nursing having worked in various clinical setting in the mental health field. In more recent years Tania practiced as a clinical nurse specialist in the field of children's eating disorders.
In September 2003, Tania joined the School of Health as a senior Lecturer within the Mental Health Nursing Team. Tania teaches on a wide variety of subjects on the pre registration nursing course; continuing her specialist interest and knowledge in the field adolescent mental health and eating disorders and also developing new interests in the field of primary mental health care and brief psychological therapy, such as solution focused therapy and motivational interviewing. Tania is presently working closely with 'Changing Minds' in Northamptonshire helping to train practitioners in the field of primary mental health care by developing and writing distance learning interactive material and delivering workshops.
Tania course leads the Post Graduate Certificate in Primary Health Care which equips students for the new vocational role of Primary Care Graduate Worker and since being involved in this programme Tania has taken an active interest in researching this new workforce initiative and has presented and published work in this area.
In 2007 Tania obtained a teaching fellowship for work investigating how emotional intelligence can be promoted in the pre registration nursing curriculum by addressing more rigorously student attitude. Tania's continues her work in this area.
Research Interests
- New ways of working and new roles in primary care.
- Short term psychological intervention such as solution focused therapy and motivational interviewing and how these therapies can be utilised by primary care practitioners.
- Enhancing pre registration nursing student emotional intelligence by addressing attitude.
Teaching Interests
- Child and adolescent mental health
- Severe eating disorders.
- Brief psychological therapy with a special interest in motivational interviewing.
- Primary care mental health.
Publications
- Morris T. & Bird D (2005) Integrating the Primary Care Graduate Mental Health Worker; one Higher Education Institutions experience PRimHE Primary Care Mental Health and Education, Volume 8 (4) Pp 127-130- ISSN 14663775
- Morris T & Bird D (2006) Role of graduate mental health workers within primary care Nursing Times Vol 102 (37) Pp27-28
- Morris T & Bird D (2006) The role of the mental health support time recovery worker Nursing Times Vol 102 (33) Pp 23-24
- Morris T & Bird D (2006) A mental health worker for minority ethnic communities Nursing Times Vol 102(35) Pp 23-24
- Bird D & Morris T (2006) Using Community Matrons to target long term conditions Nursing Times Vol 102(23) Pp 19-20.
- Morris T & White G (2007) Motivational interviewing one case example. British Community Nursing Journal. Vol 12 (3) Pp S26 - S30.
Conference Presentations
- Parkes J & Morris T (April 2005) Conference Presentation - Royal College of Nursing - Amsterdam 2005 - Primary Care Graduate Mental Health Workers - the lived experience.
- Morris T & Bird D (Nov 2005) SmhCF (Shared Mental Health Care Forum) The National Framework for Mental Health Five Years on.- London Woburn House- Workshop on - The Role of the Primary Care Mental Health Workers
- Morris T & White Geoffrey (July 2006) ADNE National Conference: promoting a positive future. Break out session - Adopting a motivational interviewing approach to enhance clinical practice - one working example.
- Morris T & Bird D (2006) 9th Annual Conference of the UK Federation of Primary Care Research Organisations Health. Liverpool An investigation into the role integration of Primary Care Graduate Mental Health Workers and Support Time Recovery Workers in Primary Care
- Morris T & Vincent M (May 2007) Child and Adolescent Primary Mental Health Workers: An Overview A training and education conference. The Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation London. The primary Care Graduate Worker: can this role be well utilised by CAMHS and more specifically by the PCMHW in order to enhance delivery?
Book Chapter
- Smith S & Morris T (2005) Chapter entitled Child Health in An Introduction to Early Childhood a multi disciplinary approach Edited by Tim Waller. Sage. London
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