Vickie Howard

Vickie Howard

Deputy Programme Director Mental Health and Wellbeing Practitioner Programme

Faculty and Department

  • Faculty of Health Sciences
  • School of Psychology and Social Work

Qualifications

  • PGDip (University of Nottingham)
  • PGDip (University of Nottingham)
  • PGDip (Middlesex University London)
  • MSc (Middlesex University London)
  • PGDip
  • MA (University of Nottingham)
  • MA (Lancaster University)
  • PCAP (University of Hull)

Summary

Vickie is the Deputy Programme Director of the Mental Health and Wellbeing Programme in psychologically informed interventions. She also continues to input as a lecturer on the BSc Mental Health Nursing Programme.

Vickie has worked in a variety of mental health settings, including posts as a matron and service manager in acute inpatient care, community mental health, perinatal mental health and rehabilitation and recovery settings. Vickie is also a counsellor and psychotherapist in private practice.

Before joining the University of Hull as a lecturer in June 2016, Vickie worked as a serious incident investigator and learning lessons facilitator. Vickie became a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy in April 2019.

Vickie is a lecturer on the following programme:

Mental Health Wellbeing Practitioner Programme (Level 6/7)

Module Leader: Care Planning

Vickie is also a lecturer/has lectured on the following programmes:

BSc Mental Health Nursing programme and BSc Apprenticeship Programme:

Module Link Lecturer for Fundamentals in Professional Practice

Module Team Lecturer for Critical Perspectives in Assessment and Formulation

Module Leader for Practice 3 Mental Health Nursing

BSc Mental Health Nursing legacy programme:

Module Leader for: 500807 - The Craft of Mental Health Nursing Across the Lifespan (1)

400599 - Practice 3

Mental Health Lead for 400591 - Skills for Practice.

Vickie also teaches on the following modules for this programme:

500809 - The Craft of Mental Health Nursing Across the Lifespan (2)

400598 - Values Based Mental Health Nursing

601249 - Professional Role

Vickie additionally teaches on the following programmes:

Paramedic Science (500607 - Clinical Practice Education 2)

BSc Midwifery (601505 - Becoming a Midwife)

Associate Practitioner Programme (47090 - Effective Communication)

BA Social Work (400850 - Becoming a research minded practitioner)

Recent outputs

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Book Chapter

Conducting a mixed methods study to explore staff perceptions in providing care to individuals with co-occurring mental health problems and illicit substance use

Howard, V. (2020). Conducting a mixed methods study to explore staff perceptions in providing care to individuals with co-occurring mental health problems and illicit substance use. In SAGE Research Methods: Cases. Part 2. SAGE Publications. https://doi.org/10.4135/9781529709650

Journal Article

Online Group Supervision as Pedagogy: A Qualitative Inquiry of Student Mental Health Nurses' Discourses and Participation

Howard, V., & Peirson, J. (in press). Online Group Supervision as Pedagogy: A Qualitative Inquiry of Student Mental Health Nurses' Discourses and Participation. Issues in mental health nursing, https://doi.org/10.1080/01612840.2023.2283507

"The End Justifies the Memes": A Feminist Relational Discourse Analysis of the Role of Macro Memes in Facilitating Supportive Discussions for Victim-Survivors of Narcissistic Abuse

Howard, V., & Adan, A. (2022). "The End Justifies the Memes": A Feminist Relational Discourse Analysis of the Role of Macro Memes in Facilitating Supportive Discussions for Victim-Survivors of Narcissistic Abuse. Cyberpsychology: Journal of Psychosocial Research on Cyberspace, 16(4), Article 10. https://doi.org/10.5817/CP2022-4-10

(Gas)lighting Their Way to Coercion and Violation in Narcissistic Abuse; An Autoethnographic Exploration

Howard, V. (2022). (Gas)lighting Their Way to Coercion and Violation in Narcissistic Abuse; An Autoethnographic Exploration. Journal of Autoethnography, 3(1), 84-102. https://doi.org/10.1525/joae.2022.3.1.84

Undergraduate mental health nursing students' reflections in gaining understanding and skills in the critical appraisal of research papers – An exploration of barriers and enablers

Howard, V. (2021). Undergraduate mental health nursing students’ reflections in gaining understanding and skills in the critical appraisal of research papers – An exploration of barriers and enablers. Nurse education in practice, 55, Article 103143. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nepr.2021.103143

Research interests

Trauma informed approaches, pathological relationships, narcissistic abuse, mental health nursing, mental health nursing education, serious incident processes.

Awards and prizes

Awarded Queen's Nurse Title

2023

Winner Best Presentation Mini Research Conference Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Hull

2022

Presentation and design of a poster presentation titled "The End Justifies the Memes": A feminist relational discourse analysis of the role of macro memes in facilitating supportive discussions for victim-survivors of narcissistic abuse.

NIHR Fellowship MA Research Methods (Health Studies)

2010 - 2011

Membership/Fellowship of professional body

Elected Fellow of the ACCPH (Accredited Counsellors, Coaches, Psychotherapists and Hypnotherapists)

2022

I was elected by the ACCPH board as a Fellow accredited counselor and psychotherapist (the highest level of accreditation) due to my experience, niche field in narcissistic abuse and my research in this area.

Registered Mental Health Nurse - NMC

1997 - 2023

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