Description

Table of contents:

I. Introduction to Psychiatric/Mental Health Concepts
1.Mental Health and Mental Illness
2.Concepts of Personality Development
3.Biological Implications
4.Ethical and Legal Issues
5.Cultural and Spiritual Concepts Relevant to Psychiatric/Mental Health Nursing
II. Psychiatric/Mental Health Nursing Interventions
6.Relationship Development and Therapeutic Communication
7.The Nursing Process in Psychiatric/Mental Health Nursing
8.Milieu—The Therapeutic Community
9.Intervention in Groups
10.Intervening in Crises
11.Complementary and Psychosocial Therapies
III. Care of Clients with Psychiatric Disorders
12.Delirium, Dementia, and Amnestic Disorders
13.Substance-Related Disorders
14.Schizophrenia and Other Psychotic Disorders
15.Mood Disorders: Depression
16.Mood Disorders: Bipolar Disorders
17.Anxiety Disorders
18.Somatoform and Dissociative Disorders
19.Issues Related to Human Sexuality
20.Eating Disorders
21.Personality Disorders
IV. Psychiatric/Mental Health Nursing of Special Populations
22.Children and Adolescents
23.Victims of Abuse or Neglect
24.The Aging Individual
25.Community Mental Health Nursing
26.The Bereaved Individual