Foundations of mental health care / Michelle Morrison-Valfre.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 371-377) and index.

Contents
Unit One Mental health care, past, present, and future:
1. History of mental health care;
2. Current mental health care systems;
3. Ethical and legal issues;
4. Sociocultural issues;
5. Theories and therapies;
6. Psychotherapeutic drug therapy

Unit Two Caregiver's therapeutic skills:
7. Skills and principles of mental health care;
8. Mental health assessment skills;
9. Therapeutic environment;
10. Therapeutic relationship;
11. Therapeutic environment

Unit Three Mental health problems throughout the life cycle:
12. Problems of childhood;
13. Problems of adolescence;
14. Problems of adulthood;
15. Problems of late adulthood;
16. Cognitive impairment, alzheimer's disease, and dementia

Unit Four Clients with psychological problems:
17. Managing anxiety;
18. Illness and hospitalization;
19. Loss and grief;
20. Depression and other mood disorders;
21. Physical problems, psychological sources;
22. Eating and sleeping disorders;
23. Dissociative disorders

Unit Five Clients with psychosocial problems:
24. Anger and aggression;
25. Outward-focused emotions, violence;
26. Inward-focused emotions, suicide;
27. Substance-related disorders;
28. Sexual disorders;
29. Personality disorders;
30. Schizophrenia and other psychoses;
31. Chronic mental health disorders;
32. Challenges for the future