Basic Concepts of Psychiatric-mental Health Nursing

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Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2007 - Medical - 749 pages

The updated Seventh Edition of this respected learning text delivers the clinically essential content psychiatric and mental health nurses need to practice with confidence. Spanning the continuum of care, this edition will help you excel in a range of settings, improve client and family education skills, and build the self-awareness you need as a member of the interdisciplinary care team. The book's wealth of new learning features and dynamic full-color design combine to create an engaging knowledge-builder you'll turn to again and again.

Skill-building features are your guideposts to success!

  • Bio-psycho-social model provides a solid learning framework that is emphasized throughout the text.
  • Self-awareness prompts in every chapter challenge you to examine your own beliefs and attitudes about caring for mentally ill clients.
  • Multiple-choice, NCLEX®-style questions for review and exam preparation include correct and incorrect answers with rationales.
  • An array of knowledge enhancing features—from Internet resources to Key Terms, Key Concepts, and recurring icons that highlight each step of nursing diagnosis and management—ensure that you never miss a step.
  • Critical thinking questions and learning activities put your problem-solving abilities to the test.

New to the Seventh Edition...

  • New chapter on forensic nursing helps you build the observational and investigative abilities key to this evolving area of nursing practice.
  • New content on spirituality, added to the chapter on cultural and ethical issues, will help you build more effective therapeutic relationships with clients.
  • Updated psychopharmacological material includes critical information on the latest drugs, their treatment applications, and limitations—plus summary tables that highlight the major drugs used for each disorder.
  • The latest diagnostic criteria reflect DSM-IV-TR standards.
  • Evidence-Based Practice Boxes throughout the text stress the value of research findings in guiding treatment choices.

A Student Resource CD-ROM bound into each book includes clinical simulations for major depression and schizophrenia, psychotropic drug monographs, over 300 NCLEX®-style review questions, and movie viewing guides.

 

Contents

UNIT I PSYCHIATRICMENTAL
1
CHAPTER 32CLIENTS WITH A CHAPTER 34 CLIENTS COPING 34CLIENTS
8
CHAPTER 3DEVELOPMENT
26
SPECIAL ISSUES RELATED
33
CHAPTER 5ETHICAL
51
Forensic Psychiatry
62
CHAPTER 7Loss GRIEF
75
Children and Death
84
SOMATOFORM
303
The Nursing Process
313
CHAPTER 21MOOD DISORDERS
324
CHAPTER 22 SCHIZOPHRENIA
353
Schizophreniclike Disorders
361
EATING
375
The Nursing Process
386
CHAPTER 24 PERSONALITY
404

COMPONENTS OF THE Adolescents
179
PSYCHIATRICMENTAL HEALTH Individual Psychotherapy
185
NURSING DIAGNOSIS AND GROUP THERAPY
193
The Science of Psychopharmacology
216
Antipsychotic Agents
222
CHAPTER 12 THE THERAPEUTIC Antidepressants
228
Stimulants as Mood Elevators
239
SOMATIC
250
Alternative Somatic Therapies
257
Holistic Nursing
263
Implications for Nursing
270
UNIT VICLIENTS WITH PSYCHIATRIC
279
The Nursing Process
291
The Nursing Process
417
History of Substance Use and Abuse 429 History of Delusional and Shared
436
Prescription Drug Abuse
442
Internet Addiction Disorder 443 UNIT VII SPECIAL POPULATIONS
533
WITH PSYCHOSOCIAL NEEDS
573
CHAPTER 27 COGNITIVE Aging 577 Psychodynamics of Aging
585
The Nursing Process 503 The Nursing Process
610
CHAPTER 33CLIENTS EXPERIENCING Psychosocial Impact of AIDS 675 The Nursing Process 677
635
Elder Abuse
650
Violence 651
694
The Nursing Process 654 INDEX
715
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