F.A. Davis Company

Here’s an evidence-based, holistic approach to caring for psychiatric and mental health patients in outpatient settings. Using a biopsychosocial model, this text addresses mental health issues through stabilization of brain chemistry, individualized psychotherapy, and re-socialization into the community.

Inside, you’ll find an in-depth focus on specific psychiatric disorders including the epidemiology, etiology, biological basis, clinical presentation of adults, older adults, and children, co-morbidities, differential diagnosis, and treatment. There is also comprehensive coverage of the interventions and “Levers of Change” used to aid patients in their recovery, as well preventative interventions.

• Covers essential content including theoretical foundations of practice, such as Modeling and Role-Modeling, a biopsychosocial nursing theory of adaptation and Kandel’s theory of brain neuroplasticity.
• Uses biopsychosocial approach to assessment and management.
• Features specific content of mental health disorders associated with military service.
• Includes evidence-based interventions and practice guidelines such as those in American Psychiatric Association Practice Guidelines for the Treatment of Psychiatric Disorders Compendium.
• Offers content perfect for preparing for certification exams.
• Uses a consistent organization for each disorder...
• Etiology
• Epidemiology
• Risk and protective factors
• Biological basis
• Clinical presentation across the lifespan
• Differential diagnosis
• Occurrence of co-morbidities
• Treatment
• Course
• Issues in management
• Screening instruments
• Fulfills the textbook requirements of the American Nurses Credentialing Company (ANCC) with coverage of psychotherapy, psychosocial interventions, and pharmacologic management.

1. Foundational Theories that Support Advanced Practice Psychiatric Nurses’ Practice
1. Theoretical Framework of Practice
2. Understanding the Development of Psychiatric Disorders: The Why of Clinical Presentation and Response to Treatment
2. Neurobiological Theory of Psychiatric Disorders: Brain functioning, brain development and prenatal and perinatal factors disrupting brain development
3. Postnatal influences on development of psychopathology
3. Interventions Used by Advance Practice Psychiatric Nurses: Tools of the Profession
4. Communicating, Interviewing and Assessing
5. Case Formulation and Diagnosis, Differential Diagnoses and Developing a Biopsychosocial Plan of Care
6. Psychopharmacotherapy
7. Psychotherapies
8. Psychosocial interventions
4. Psychiatric Disorders: Anxiety Disorders
9. Response to Stressors: Bridging Normal Responses and Psychiatric Disorders
10. Phobias, Generalized Anxiety Disorder, Social Anxiety Disorder and Panic Disorder
11. Acute Stress Disorder and Posttraumatic Stress Disorder
12. Obsessive-compulsive disorder and obsessive-compulsive spectrum disorders
5. Psychiatric Disorders: Mood disorders
13. Depressive disorders
14. Bipolar Disorder
6. Psychiatric Disorders: Thought Disorders
15. Schizophrenia and Schizoaffective Disorder
16. Delirium and Dementia
7. Psychiatric Disorders: Substance-related Disorders--Dual Diagnosis
17. Dual Diagnosis
8. Personality Disorders
18. Personality Disorders
9. Mental Health Promotion and Prevention of Psychiatric Disorders
19. Prevention of Psychiatric Disorders