| Edition |
8th ed. |
| Description |
xviii, 654 pages : color illustrations ; 28 cm + 1 DVD-ROM (4 3/4 in.) |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Psychiatric-mental health nursing: Self-awareness -- History and trends in psychiatric-mental health nursing -- Development of psychiatric-mental health nursing theory -- Special issues related to psychiatric-mental health nursing: Spiritual, cultural, and ethnic issues -- Ethical and legal issues -- Forensic nursing practice -- Loss, grief, and end-of-life care -- Continuum of care -- Components of the nurse-client relationship: Assessment of psychiatric-mental health clients -- Nursing diagnosis, outcome identification, planning, implementation, and evaluation -- Therapeutic communication and relationships -- The therapeutic milieu -- Interactive therapies: Crisis and disaster intervention -- Individual psychotherapy -- Family, couples, and group therapy -- Special treatment modalities. Psychopharmacology -- Somatic therapies -- Complementary and alternative medicine -- Clients with psychiatric disorders : Anxiety disorders -- Somatoform and dissociative disorders -- Mood disorders -- Schizophrenia and schizophrenic-like disorders -- Eating disorders -- Personality development and personality disorders -- Substance-related disorders -- Sexuality and sexual disorders -- Cognitive disorders -- Delusional and shared psychotic disorders -- Special populations: Infant, child, and adolescent clients -- Aging clients with psychosocial needs -- Suicidal clients -- Clients with a dual diagnosis -- Clients experiencing abuse and violence -- Clients coping with acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) -- Seriously and persistently mentally ill, homeless, or incarcerated clients. |
| System Details |
System requirements for accompanying DVD-ROM: IBM PC or compatible; Windows 95 or better. |
| Summary |
This text addresses topics such as: community mental health, eating disorders, child abuse and neglect, the abused adult in the family unit, rape and sexual assault, psychosocial aspects of aging, and coping with ADS. |
| Subject |
Psychiatric nursing.
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Psychiatric Nursing -- methods.
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Mental Disorders -- nursing.
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Psychiatric nursing. (OCoLC)fst01081110
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| ISBN |
9781605478876 |
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1605478873 |
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