Basic Concepts of Psychiatric-Mental Health Nursing

by Shives, Louise Rebraca

• ISBN13: 9780397547579
• ISBN10: 0397547579
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1990-04-01
• Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

Summary

This updated Seventh Edition will equip psychiatric and mental health nurses with the essential clinical knowledge and skills needed to practice with confidence. Spanning the continuum of care, this text will help nurses excel in a range of settings, improve client and family education skills, and build the self-awareness a nurse needs as a member of the interdisciplinary care team. This edition includes a new chapter on forensic nursing, new content on spirituality, updated psychopharmacological information, current DSM-IV-TR diagnostic criteria, and Evidence-Based Practice Boxes throughout the text. A bound-in CD-ROM includes clinical simulations for major depression and schizophrenia, psychotropic drug monographs, over 300 NCLEX& -style questions, and movie viewing guides.

Table of Contents

Mental Health and Mental Illness	p. 3
History and Trends in Psychiatric Nursing	p. 21
Community Mental Health	p. 39
Legal Issues	p. 55
The Nursing Process: Assessment of Psychiatric Patients	p. 67
The Nursing Process: Nursing Diagnosis and Intervention	p. 87
Therapeutic Interactions	p. 97
The Therapeutic Milieu	p. 119
Crisis Intervention	p. 143
Group Therapy	p. 157
Family Therapy	p. 169
Psychopharmacology	p. 189
Theories of Personality Development	p. 221
Emotional Responses to Illness and Hospitalization	p. 235
Loss and Grief	p. 259
Anxiety Disorders	p. 281
Anxiety-related Disorders	p. 305
Human Sexuality and Sexual Disorders	p. 335
Altered Mood: Depression and Mania	p. 349
Risk for Self-directed Violence: Suicide	p. 373
Altered Thought Processes: Delusional or Paranoid Behavior	p. 393
Altered Thought Processes: Schizophrenia and Other Psychotic Disorders	p. 405
Impaired Cognition: Delirium, Dementia, Amnestic, and Other Cognitive Disorders	p. 425
Disorders of Infancy, Childhood, and Adolescence	p. 445
Eating Disorders	p. 475
Ineffective Individual Coping: Alcoholism	p. 491
Ineffective Individual Coping: Psychoactive Substance Abuse	p. 513
Child Abuse and Neglect	p. 531
The Abused Adult Within the Family Unit	p. 547
Rape and Sexual Assault	p. 561
Coping with Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS)	p. 575
Psychosocial Aspects of Aging	p. 587
Psychiatric Patients with Medical Problems/Syndromes	p. 609
Nursing Assessment of the Adult/Adolescent	p. 617
DSM-IV Classification - Axis I and II Categories and Codes	p. 625
North American Nursing Diagnosis Association (NANDA) List of Approved Nursing Diagnoses	p. 645
Glossary	p. 649
Index	p. 661
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