Psychiatric-mental health nursing /

Videbeck, Sheila L.

Psychiatric-mental health nursing / Sheila L. Videbeck - Fourth edition. - Philadelphia, Pennsylvania : Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, c2008 - xi, 560 pages : color illustrations ; 28 cm.

Includes index.

Unit 1. Current theories and practice. Foundations psychiatric-mental health nursing -- Neurobiologic theories and psychopharmacology -- Psychosocial theories and therapy -- Treatment settings and therapeutic programs -- Unit 2. Building the nurse-client relationship. Therapeutic relationships -- Therapeutic communications -- Client's response to illness -- Assessment -- Unit 3. Current social and emotional concerns. Legal and ethical issues -- Anger, hostility, and aggression -- Abuse and violence -- Grief and loss -- Unit 4. Nursing practice for psychiatric disorders. Anxiety and stress-related illness -- Schizophrenia -- Mood disorders -- Personality disorders -- Substance abuse -- Eating disorders -- Somatoform disorders -- Child and adolescent disorders -- Cognitive disorders

Explores the full psychiatric nursing care continum in a nursing process framwork, emphasizing assessment, therapeutic communication, and psychopharmacologic intervention.

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