Basic concepts of psychiatric - mental health nursing / Louise Rebecca Shives

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Unit 1: Psychiatric-Mental Health Nursing-- Chapter 1: Self-Awareness-- Chapter 2: History and Trends in Psychiatric-Mental Health Nursing-- Chapter 3: Development of Psychiatric-Mental Health Nursing Theory-- Unit 2: Special Issues Related to Psychiatric-Mental Health Nursing--Chapter 4: Spiritual, Cultural, and Ethnis Issues-- Chapter 5: Ethical and Legal Issues-- Chapter 6: Forensic Nursing Practice-- Chapter 7: Loss, Grief, and End-of-Life Care--Chapter 8: Continuum of Care. Unit 3: Components of the Nurse-Client Relationship-- Chapter 9: Assessment of Psychiatric-Mental Health Clients-- Chapter 10: Nursing Diagnosis, Outcome Identification, Planning, Implementation, and Evaluation-- Chapter 11: Therapeutic Communication and Relationships-- Chapter 12: The Therapeutic Milieu. Unit 4: Interactive Therapies-- Chapter 13: Crisis and Disaster: Intervention-- Chapter 14: Individual Psychotherapy-- Chapter 15: Family, Couple, and Group Therapy. Unit 5: Special Treatment Modalities-- Chapter 16: Psychopharmacology-- Chapter 17: Somatic Therapies-- Chapter 18: Complementary and Alternative Medicine. Unit 6: Clients with Psychiatric Disorders-- Chapter 19: Anxiety Disorders-- Chapter 20: Somatoform and Dissociative Disorders-- Chapter 21: Mood Disorders-- Chapter 22: Schizophrenia and Schiphrenic-Like Disorders-- Chapter 23: Eating Disorders-- Chapter 24: Personality Development and Personality Disorders-- Chapter 25: Substance-Related Disorders-- Chapter 26: Sexuality and Sexual Disorders-- Chapter 27: Cognitive Disorders-- Chapter 28: Delusional and Shared Psychotic Disorders. Unit 7: Special Populations-- Chapter 29: Infant, Child, and Adolescent Clients-- Chapter 30: Aging Clients with Psychological Needs-- Chapter 31: Suicidal Clients-- Chapter 32: Clients with a Dual Diagnosis-- Chapter 33: Clients Experiencing Abuse and Violence-- Chapter 34: Clients Coping with Acquired Immuno-deficieny Syndrome (AIDS)-- Chapter 35: Seriously and Persistently Mentally Ill, Homeless, or Incarcerated Clients.

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