Introduction and overview of aging and older adulthood / Karen Devereaux Melillo -- Geropsychiatric nursing as a subspecialty / Karen Devereaux Melillo, Lee Ann Hoff, and Martha A. Huff -- Comprehensive mental health assessment: an integrated approach / Lee Ann Hoff, Lisa Brown -- Ethnic elders / Jane Cloutterbuck, Lin Zhan -- Mental health promotion / Charles Blair -- Psychopharmacology / Barbara Edlund, James Sterrett, Geoffry McEnany -- Nursing assessment and treatment of depressive disorders of late life / Eve Heemann Byrd -- Nursing assessment and treatment of anxiety in late life / Marianne Smith -- Psychosis in older adults / Janet C. Mentes, Julia K. Bail -- Substance abuse in older adults / Betty D. Morgan, Donna M. White, Ann X. Wallace -- Delirium / Karen Dick, Catherine R. Morency -- Nursing assessment of clients with dementias of late life: screening, diagnosis, and communication / Kathleen Sherrell, Madelyn Iris -- Nursing management of clients experiencing dementias of late life: care environments, clients, and caregivers / Ruth Remington, Linda A. Gerdner, Kathleen C. Buckwalter -- Addressing problem behaviors common to late-life dementias / Ruth Remington, May Futrell -- Family caregiving / Susan Crocker Houde -- Sleep disorders of late life / Barbara Resnick, Marianne Shaughnessy, Marjorie Simpson -- Problem and pathological gambling among older adults / Cynthia Sullivan Kerber -- Elder mistreatment / Terry Fulmer, Lisa Guadagno, Marguarette M. Bolton -- End of life / Michelle Doran, Karyn Geary -- Social, health and long-term care programs and policies affecting mental health in older adults / Kathy J. Fabiszewski -- Future of geropsychiatric and mental health nursing in addressing older adult health care needs / Priscilla Ebersole, Diane Feeney Mahoney, Kathleen Coen Buckwalter.
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