TY  - BOOK
AU  - Valfre,Michelle Morrison
TI  - Foundations of mental health care
SN  - 9780323026093 (pbk.)
PY  - 2005///
CY  - St. Louis, Mo.
PB  - Elsevier Mosby
KW  - Psychiatric nursing
KW  - Mental health services
KW  - Mental Disorders
KW  - therapy
KW  - nursing
N1  - 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 



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