Mary C. Townsend, DSN, PMHCNS-BC, Clinical Specialist/Nurse Consultant, Adult Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing, Former Assistant Professor and Coordinator, Mental Health Nursing, Kramer School of Nursing, Oklahoma City University, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
EDITION STATEMENT
Edition Statement
Eighth edition
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item
xxiv, 961 pages :
Other Physical Details
color illustrations ;
Dimensions
30 cm
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
Text of Note
Includes bibliographical references and index
CONTENTS NOTE
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Basic concepts in psychiatric/mental health nursing -- The concept of stress adaptation -- Mental health/mental illness: historical and theoretical concepts -- Foundations for psychiatric/mental health nursing -- Theoretical models of personality development -- Concepts of psychobiology -- Ethical and legal issues in psychiatric/mental health nursing -- Cultural and spiritual concepts relevant to psychiatric/mental health nursing -- Therapeutic approaches in psychiatric nursing care -- Relationship development -- Therapeutic communication -- The nursing process in psychiatric/mental health nursing -- Therapeutic groups -- Intervention with families -- Milieu therapy: the therapeutic community -- Crisis intervention -- Assertiveness training -- Promoting self-esteem -- Anger/aggression management -- The suicidal client -- Behavior therapy -- Cognitive therapy -- Electroconvulsive therapy -- Recovery model -- Nursing care of clients with alterations in psychosocial adaptation -- Neurocognitive disorders -- Substance-related and addictive disorders -- Schizophrenia spectrum and other psychotic disorders -- Depressive disorders -- Bipolar and related disorders -- Anxiety, obsessive compulsive, and related disorders -- Trauma and stressor-related disorders -- Somatic symptom and dissociative disorders -- Issues related to human sexuality and gender dysphoria -- Eating disorders -- Personality disorders -- Psychiatric/mental health nursing of special population -- Children and adolescents -- The aging individual -- Survivors of abuse or neglect -- Community mental health nursing -- The bereaved individual -- Military families -- Appendices A. Answers to chapter review questions B. Examples of answers to communication exercises C. Mental status assessment D. DSM-5 classification E. NANDA nursing diagnoses: taxonomy II F. Assigning nursing diagnoses to client behaviors -- Glossary