Mental health Nursing / editor, Jeanne Wissmann ; Assessment Technologies Institute - Edition 7.0 - United States of America Assessment Technologies Institute c 2000-2007 - viii, 399., p.; ill 21 cm - Content mastery series .

Contents

Unit 1 Foundations for mental health nursing
ch. 1. Mental health assessment, medical/nursing diagnoses, and mental health nursing interventions
ch. 2. Legal and ethical issues in mental health nursing
ch. 3. Developing and maintaining a therapeutic nurse-client relationship
ch. 4. Effective communication in mental health nursing
ch. 5. Understanding anxiety and defense mechanisms
ch. 6. Creation and maintaining a therapeutic and safe environment
ch. 7. Mental health nursing in diverse practice settings
ch. 8. Culturally aware mental health nursing

Unit 2. Traditional non pharmacological therapies
ch. 9. Psychoanalysis, pschotherapy, and behavioral therapy
ch. 10. Group and family therapy
ch. 11. Stress management
ch. 12. Electroconvulsive therapy

Unit 3. Psychopharmacological therapies
ch. 13. Medications to treat anxiety disorders
ch. 14. Medications to treat mood disorders: depression
ch. 15. Medications to treat mood disorders: bipolar
ch. 16. Medications to treat psychoses
ch. 17. Medications to treat cognitive disorders: Alzheimer's disease
ch. 18. Medications to treat Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)

Unit 4. Psychobiologic disorders, psychiatric emergencies, and mental health nursing care of special populations
ch. 19. Anxiety disorders
ch. 20. Somatoform disorders
ch. 21. Dissociative disorders
ch. 22. Personality disorders
ch. 23. Eating disorders
ch. 24. Mood disorders: depression
ch. 25. Mood disorders: Bipolar
ch. 26. Schizophrenia
ch. 27. Cognitive disorders.
ch. 28. Developmental and behavioral disorders
ch. 29. Substance-related and non-substance-related dependencies
ch. 30. Crisis management
ch. 31. Suicide
ch. 32. Anger management
ch. 33. Family and community violence
ch. 34. Sexual assault
ch. 35. Care of those who are dying and/or grieving
ch. 36. Mental health issues of the adolescent
ch. 37. Mental health issues of the older adult.

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Psychiatric nursing

WY 18.2 P719m 2007