Foundations of psychiatric mental health nursing : a clinical approach (St. Louis, Mo : Saunders/Elsevier, 2010)
Mental health and mental illness -- Relevant theories and therapies for nursing practice -- Biological basis for understanding psychotropic drugs -- Psychiatric mental health nursing in acute care settings -- Psychiatric mental health nursing in community settings -- Cultural implications for psychiatric mental health nursing -- Legal and ethical guidelines for safe practice -- The nursing process and standards of care for psychiatric mental health nursing -- Therapeutic relationships -- Communication and the clinical interview -- Understanding responses to stress -- Anxiety and anxiety disorders -- Depressive disorders -- Bipolar disorders -- Schizophrenia -- Eating disorders -- Cognitive disorders -- Addictive disorders -- Personality disorders -- Sleep disorders -- Sexual dysfunction and sexual disorders -- Somatoform, factitious, and dissociative disorders -- Crisis and disaster -- Suicide -- Anger, aggression, and violence -- Child, older adult, and intimate partner abuse -- Sexual assault -- Disorders of children and adolescents -- Psychosocial needs of the older adult -- Serious mental illness -- Psychological needs of patients with medical conditions -- Care for the dying and for those who grieve -- Forensic psychiatric nursing -- Therapeutic groups -- Family interventions -- Integrative care
Revised edition of: Foundations of psychiatric mental health nursing / [by] Elizabeth M. Varcarolis, Verna Benner Carson, Nancy Christine Shoemaker. 5th ed. 2006
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Keywords: Psychiatric nursing; Mental Disorders -- nursing; Psychiatric nursing; CD-ROMs