Essentials of psychiatric mental health nursing : concepts of care in evidence-based practice /

Easy to read and easy to understand, this is the text that makes complex concepts easy to master. It offers a holistic approach to mental health nursing that explores nursing diagnoses for both physiological and psychological disorders. -- From publisher's description.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Townsend, Mary C., 1941- (Author), Morgan, Karyn I. (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Philadelphia : F.A. Davis Company, [2020]
Edition:8th edition.
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Table of Contents:
  • Mental health and mental illness
  • Biological implications
  • Ethical and legal issues
  • Psychopharmacology
  • Relationship development and therapeutic communication
  • The nursing process in psychiatric mental health nursing
  • Milieu therapy: the therapeutic community
  • Intervention in groups
  • Crisis intervention
  • The recovery model
  • Suicide prevention
  • Caring for patients with mental illness and substance use disorders in general practice settings
  • Neurocognitive disorders
  • Substance use and addictive disorders
  • Schizophrenia spectrum and other psychotic disorders
  • Depressive disorders
  • Bipolar and related disorders
  • Anxiety, obsessive-compulsive, and related disorders
  • Trauma- and stressor-related disorders
  • Somatic symptom and dissociative disorders
  • Eating disorders
  • Personality disorders
  • Children and adolescents
  • The aging individual
  • Survivors of abuse or neglect
  • Community mental health nursing
  • The bereaved individual
  • Military families.