BookLouise Rebraca Shives.
Summary: This text addresses topics such as: community mental health, eating disorders, child abuse and neglect, the abused adult in the family unit, rape and sexual assault, psychosocial aspects of aging, and coping with ADS.
Contents:
Psychiatric-mental health nursing: Self-awareness
History and trends in psychiatric-mental health nursing
Development of psychiatric-mental health nursing theory
Special issues related to psychiatric-mental health nursing: Spiritual, cultural, and ethnic issues
Ethical and legal issues
Forensic nursing practice
Loss, grief, and end-of-life care
Continuum of care
Components of the nurse-client relationship: Assessment of psychiatric-mental health clients
Nursing diagnosis, outcome identification, planning, implementation, and evaluation
Therapeutic communication and relationships
The therapeutic milieu
Interactive therapies: Crisis and disaster intervention
Individual psychotherapy
Family, couples, and group therapy
Special treatment modalities. Psychopharmacology
Somatic therapies
Complementary and alternative medicine
Clients with psychiatric disorders : Anxiety disorders
Somatoform and dissociative disorders
Mood disorders
Schizophrenia and schizophrenic-like disorders
Eating disorders
Personality development and personality disorders
Substance-related disorders
Sexuality and sexual disorders
Cognitive disorders
Delusional and shared psychotic disorders
Special populations: Infant, child, and adolescent clients
Aging clients with psychosocial needs
Suicidal clients
Clients with a dual diagnosis
Clients experiencing abuse and violence
Clients coping with acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS)
Seriously and persistently mentally ill, homeless, or incarcerated clients.