TY  - BOOK
AU  - Townsend, Mary C.
TI  - Essentials of psychiatric mental health nursing: concepts of care  in evidence-based practice 
SN  - 9780803616110
U1  - WY 160 T747e 2008 
PY  - 2008///
CY  - Philadelphia
PB  - F.A.Davis
KW  -  Psychiatric nursing
KW  - Mental Disorders
KW  - Nursing
KW  - | Psychiatric Nursing
KW  - Methods
N1  - Includes bibliography and index; Table of Contents:

UNIT ONE: Introduction to Psychiatric/Mental Health Concepts
1. Mental health and mental illness
2. Concepts of personality development
3. Biological implications
4. Ethical and legal issues
5. Cultural and spiritual concepts relevant to psychiatric/mental health nursing

UNIT TWO: Psychiatric/Mental Health Nursing Interventions
6. Relationship development and therapeutic communication
7. The nursing process in psychiatric/mental health nursing
8. Milieu therapy : the therapeutic community
9. Intervention in groups
10. Intervening in crises
11.Psychopharmacology
12. Complementary and psychosocial therapies

UNIT THREE: Care of Clients With Psychiatric Disorders
13. Delirium, dementia, and amnestic disorders
14. Substance-related disorders
15. Schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders
16. Mood disorders
17. Anxiety disorders
18. Anxiety-related disorders
19. Disorders of human sexuality
20. Eating disorders
21. Personality disorders

UNIT FOUR: Psychiatric/Mental Health Nursing Of Special Populations
22. Children and adolescents
23. Victims of abuse or neglect
24. The aging individual
25. Community mental health nursing
26. The bereaved individual
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