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

Includes Bibliography references and Index

Contents

Unit I: Psychiatric-mental health Nursing
Chapter 1 Mental Health and Mental Illness
Chapter 2 History and Trends in psychiatric Nursing
Chapter 3 Community Mental Health
Chapter 4 Legal Issues

Unit II: Components of Psychiatric-Mental Health Nursing
Chapter 5 The Nursing process: Assessment of Psychiatric Patients
Chapter 6 The Nursing process: Nursing Diagnosis and Intervention
Chapter 7 Therapeutic Interactions
Chapter 8 The Therapeutic Milieu
Chapter 9 Crisis Intervention
Chapter 10 Group Therapy
Chapter 11 Family Therapy
Chapter 12 Psychopharmacology

Unit III: The Patient as a Person
Chapter 13 Theories of Personality Development
Chapter 14 Emotional Responses to Illness and Hospitalization
Chapter 15 Loss and Grief

Unit IV: Nursing Interventions for Persons with psychiatric Disorders
Chapter 16 Anxiety Disorders
Chapter 17 Anxiety Related Disorders
Chapter 18 Human Sexuality and Sexual Disorders
Chapter 19 Altered Mood: Depression and Mania
Chapter 20 Risk for Self Directed Violence : Suicide
Chapter 21 Altered Thought processes: Delusional of Paranoid behavior
Chapter 22 Altered Thought processes: Schizophrenia and Other
Chapter 23 Impaired Cognition: Delirium, Dementia, Amnestic, and Other Cognitive Disorders

Unit V: Special Populations in Psychiatric-Mental Health Nursing
Chapter 24 Disorders of Infancy, Childhood, and Adolescence
Chapter 25 Eating Disorders
Chapter 26 Ineffective Individual Coping: Alcoholism
Chapter 27 Ineffective Individual Coping: Psychoactive Substance Abuse

Unit VI: Relational Problems
Chapter 28 Child Abuse and Neglect
Chapter 29 The Abused Adult Within The Family Unit
Chapter 30 Rape and Sexual Assault

Unit VII: Populations with Special Needs
Chapter 31 Coping With Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS)
Chapter 32 Psychosocial Aspects of Aging
Chapter 33 Psychiatric Patients with Medical Problems/Syndromes