Psychiatric Nursing provides thorough coverage of mental health promotion, assessment, and interventions in adults, families, children, adolescents, and older adults.

Psychiatric Nursing features:

• psychoeducation checklists
• therapeutic dialogues
• NCLEX(R) notes
• vignettes of famous people with mental disorders

Contents

1. Nature of Mental Health and Mental Illness

1. Stigma, Social Change and Mental Health
2. Classification of Mental Illnesses and Evidence-Based Nursing Care
3. Patient Rights and Legal Issues
4. Mental Health Care in the Community

2. Principles of Psychiatric Nursing

5. Frameworks, Ethics, and Standards of Psychiatric Nursing
6. Psychosocial Theoretic Basis of Psychiatric Nursing
7. The Biologic Foundations of Psychiatric Nursing
8. Psychopharmacology and Biologic Interventions

3. Contemporary Psychiatric Nursing Practice

9. Communication and the Therapeutic Relationship
10. The Nursing Process: Assessment, Diagnoses, Outcomes, Interventions, Evaluation
11. Cognitive Interventions in Psychiatric Nursing
12. Interventions with Groups
13. Family Assessment and Interventions

4. Mental Health Promotion

14. Stress and Mental Health
15. Cultural and Spiritual Issues Related to Mental Health Care
16. Mental Health Promotion of the Young and Middle-Aged Adult
17. Suicide: A Major Mental Health Problem

5. Care of Persons with Psychiatric Disorders

18. Schizophrenia: Management of Thought Disorders
19. Schizoaffective, Delusional, and Other Psychiatric Disorders
20. Mood Disorders: Management of Moods and Suicidal Behavior
21. Anxiety Disorders: Management of Anxiety and Panic
22. Personality and Impulse Disorders: Meaning of Behavior
23. Somatoform and Related Disorders
24. Eating Disorders
25. Substance Related Disorders
26. Sleep Disorders

6. Children and Adolescents

27. Mental Health Assessment of Children and Adolescents
28. Mental Health Promotion with Children and Adolescents
29. Psychiatric Disorders Diagnosed in Childhood and Adolescents

7. Older Adults

30. Mental Health Assessment of the Elderly
31. Mental Health Promotion with the Elderly
32. Delirium, Dementias, and Related Disorders

8. Care of Special Populations

33. Care of People Who are Homeless and Mentally Ill
34. Issues in Co-Occuring Disorders
35. Psychosocial Aspects of Medically Compromised Persons

9. Care Challenges in Psychiatric Nursing

36. Crisis, Grief, and Disaster Management
37. Management of Anger, Aggression, and Violence
38. Caring for Abused Person1s

Index

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