Mental health nursing students' rationales for self-disclosure: 2

This is the second of two articles that consider the findings of a study exploring mental health nursing students' reasons for their use and non-use of self-disclosure in their relationships with patients. The first article (Vol 12(20): 1220-7) described the background to the deployment of this skill within therapeutic approaches, the paucity of literature discussing its use within nursing, the methods employed in this study and the findings for mental health nursing students' reasons for using the skill. This second article focuses on student's reasons for not deploying this skill, which are discussed in the following categories: 'crossing the line', 'unhelpful', 'name, rank and serial number' and 'students' vulnerability'. A discussion of the findings from both articles and their implications is offered.