Mental health and mental illness -- Biological implications -- Ethical and legal issues -- Psychopharmacology -- Cultural and spiritual concepts relevant to psychiatric mental health nursing -- Relationship development and therapeutic communication -- The nursing process in psychiatric mental health nursing -- Milieu therapy-the therapeutic community -- Intervention in groups -- Crisis intervention -- The recovery model -- Suicide prevention -- Neurocognitive disorders -- Substance use and addictive disorders -- Schizophrenia spectrum and other psychotic disorders -- Depressive disorders -- Bipolar and related disorders -- Anxiety, obsessive-compulsive, and related disorders -- Trauma- and stressor-related disorders -- Somatic symptom and dissociative disorders -- Issues related to human sexuality and gender dysphoria -- Eating disorders -- Personality disorders -- Children and adolescents -- The aging individual -- Survivors of abuse or neglect -- Community mental health nursing -- The bereaved individual -- Military families.
Summary:
"Whether it's an entire course on psychiatric nursing or integrating these principles into an existing course, this is the text that's concise, engaging and informative. It offers a holistic approach to mental health nursing that explores nursing diagnoses for both physiological and psychological disorders."--Publisher's website. Easy to read and easy to understand, this is the text that makes complex concepts easy to master. It offers a holistic approach to mental health nursing that explores nursing diagnoses for both physiological and psychological disorders. -- Provided by publisher.
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