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This updated Seventh Edition will equip psychiatric and mental health nurses with the essential clinical knowledge and skills needed to practice with confidence. Spanning the continuum of care, this text will help nurses excel in a range of settings, improve client and family education skills, and build the self-awareness a nurse needs as a member of the interdisciplinary care team. This edition includes a new chapter on forensic nursing, new content on spirituality, updated psychopharmacological information, current DSM-IV-TR diagnostic criteria, and Evidence-Based Practice Boxes throughout the text. A bound-in CD-ROM includes clinical simulations for major depression and schizophrenia, psychotropic drug monographs, over 300 NCLEX??-style questions, and movie viewing guides.… (more)
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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.