| Edition |
6th ed. |
| Description |
xxix, 896 p. : col. ill. ; 28 cm. + 1 CD-ROM (4 3/4 in.) |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| System Details |
System requirements for accompanying CD-ROM : Windows 2000/XP/Vista. |
| Contents |
Basic concepts in psychiatric/mental health nursing -- The concept of stress adaptation -- Mental health/mental illness: historical and theoretical concepts -- Foundations for psychiatric/mental health nursing -- Theoretical models of personality development -- Concepts of psychobiology -- Ethical and legal issues in psychiatric/mental health nursing -- Cultural and spiritual concepts relevant to psychiatric/mental health nursing -- Therapeutic approaches in psychiatric nursing care -- Relationship development -- Therapeutic communication -- The nursing process in psychiatric/mental health nursing -- Therapeutic groups -- Intervention with families -- Milieu therapy: the therapeutic community -- Crisis intervention -- Relaxation therapy -- Assertiveness training -- Promoting self-esteem --Anger/aggression management -- The suicidal client -- Behavior therapy -- Cognitive therapy -- Psychopharmacology -- Electroconvulsive therapy -- Complementary therapies -- Client education -- Nursing care of clients with alterations in psychosocial adaptation -- Disorders usually first diagnosed in infancy, childhood, or adolescence -- Delirium, dementia, and amnestic disorders -- Substance-related disorders -- Schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders -- Mood disorders -- Anxiety disorders -- Somatoform and sleep disorders -- Issues related to human sexuality -- Eating disorders -- Personality disorders -- Psychiatric mental health nursing of special population -- The aging individual -- Victims of abuse or neglect -- Community mental health nursing -- Forensic nursing -- The bereaved individual -- Appendices A. Answers to chapter review questions B. Mental status assessment C. DSM-IV-TR classification: axes I and II categories and codes D. NANDA nursing diagnoses: taxonomy II E. Assigning nursing diagnosis to client behaviors F. Controlled drug and pregnancy categories G. Sample client teaching guides -- Glossary. |
| Summary |
Accompanying CD-ROM has an electronic test bank of 400 NCLEX-style questions that can be customized by chapter and by NCLEX descriptor and a student workbook with learning activities, more than 50 psychotropic drug monographs, more than 20 sample client education teaching guides, a medication assessment tool for levels of anxiety, a table for assigning nursing diagnoses to client behaviors, and care plans. Includes Adobe Reader software for opening PDF files. |
| Subject |
Psychiatric nursing.
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Psychiatric Nursing -- methods. |
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Evidence-Based Medicine. |
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Mental Disorders -- nursing. |
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Psychotherapy -- methods. |
| ISBN |
9780803619173 |
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0803619170 |
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