Ms Vickie Howard

Deputy Programme Director Mental Health and Wellbeing Practitioner Programme

+44 (0)1482 464790 | V.Howard@hull.ac.uk

Faculty and Department

Faculty of Health Sciences
School of Psychology and Social Work

Biography Teaching Outputs Research/PhD

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

"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

Factors influencing adequate and effective clinical supervision for inpatient mental health nurses' personal and professional development: An integrative review

Howard, V., & Eddy-Imishue, G. K. (in press). Factors influencing adequate and effective clinical supervision for inpatient mental health nurses' personal and professional development: An integrative review. Journal of psychiatric and mental health nursing, https://doi.org/10.1111/jpm.12604

Research interests

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