Nurse-patient relations

Aims and Objectives: To examine the relationship between psychiatric patients' caregiver burden and anger expression styles.; Background: In the caregiving process, when coping with problems, caregivers may exhibit emotional and behavioural responses, which can produce distressful results. One of these responses is angry.

There are about 32,000 young carers in the UK. Rebecca Coombes hears how a school nurse is helping one of them to cope.