Mereness, Dorothy A. <br/><br/>
Mereness' Essentials of psychiatric nursing / 
Cecelia Monat Taylor 
 - Thirteenth edition. 
 - St. Louis, Missouri :  Mosby Elsevier,  c1990 
 - xxii, 538 pages :  illustrations ;  25 cm. 
<br/><br/>Includes index. 
<br/><br/>The context of psychiatric nursing practice -- The mental health delivery system and heatlh care team -- Psychiatric nursing and the law -- Current issues affecting the future of psychiatric nursing -- The tools of the psychiatric nursing -- Self -- awareness -- principles of psychiatric nursing -- Effective communication -- Nurse client interactions -- The therapeutic environment -- The nursing process -- Theoretical bases for understanding mental health and mental illness -- General systems theory and stress and adaptation:one conceptual framework -- Psychosocial theories of personality development -- Anxiety:one response to stress -- Biological factors influencing mental health and mental illness -- Cultural factors influencing mental health and mental illness -- The consumers of psychiatric nursing -- Individuals with thought disorders -- Individuals with mood disorders -- Individuals with anxiety disorders -- Individuals with psychophysiological disorders -- Individuals with substance abuse and dependence -- Individuals with personality disorders -- Populations at risk;the elderly -- Populations at risk: children and adolescents -- Populations at risk:the physically ill -- Multidisciplinary psychiatric interventions -- Crisis theory and intervention -- Group theory and intervention -- Family theory and intervention -- 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>801632986 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>PSYCHIATRIC NURSING
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>RC 440 .T39 1990