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Psychiatric mental health nursing / Katherine M Fortinash; Patricia A Holoday-Worret - 2nd edition - St Louis : Mosby, c2000 - xxv, 854 p. : col. ill. ; 28 cm

Table of contents

Part 1: Introduction to psychiatric mental health nursing
1. Foundations of psychiatric mental health nursing
2. Clinical experiences: rewards, challenges, and solutions
3. Theoretic perspectives
4. Psychobiology
5. Legal -ethical issues
6. Cultural issues

Part 2: Dynamics of nursing practice
6. The nursing process
7. Principles of communication

Part 3: Developmental aspects across the life span
9. Children and adolescents
10. The adult
11. The elderly

Part 4: Psychiatric disorders
12. Anxiety and related disorders
13. Mood disorders: depression and mania
14. The schizophrenias
15. Personality disorders
16. Substance-related disorders
17. Delirium, dementia, and amnestic and other cognitive disorders
18. Disorders of childhood and adolescence
19.Eating disorders
20. Sexual disorders
21. Adjustment disorders

Part 5: Therapeutic modalities
22. Interactive, activity, and electroconvulsive therapies
23. Psychopharmacology and other biologic therapies
24. Alternative therapies
25. Crisis intervention
26. Activity therapies

Part 6: Contemporary issues
27. Survivors of family violence
28. Suicide
29. Grief and loss
30. Persons with HIV/AID
31. Psychologic aspects of physiologic illness
32. Persons with chronic mental illness
33. Community psychiatric mental health
34. Spirituality

Includes Bibliography and index

ISBN: 9780323006484 0323006485

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Psychiatric nursing

Dewey Class. No.: 616.890231 / FOR