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Assure that your students receive the psychiatric mental health knowledge they need with the text that’s still the most clearly written and student friendly. They’ll master an evidence-based, holistic approach to nursing practice that focuses on both biological and behavioral components. And, they’ll find all of the latest research studies, biological theories, and pharmacological data, as well as features designed to make complex concepts easier to grasp.

I. Basic Concepts in Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing

1. The Concept of Stress Adaptation

2. Mental Health/Mental Illness: Historical and Theoretical Concepts

II. Foundations for Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing

3. Theoretical Models of Personality Development

4. Concepts of Psychobiology

5. Ethical and Legal Issues in Psychiatric/Mental Health Nursing

6. Cultural and Spiritual Concepts Relevant to Psychiatric/Mental Health Nursing

III. Therapeutic Approaches in Psychiatric Nursing Care

7. Relationship Development

8. Therapeutic Communication

9. The Nursing Process in Psychiatric/Mental Health Nursing

10. Therapeutic Groups

11. Intervention With Families

12. Milieu Therapy-The Therapeutic Community

13. Crisis Intervention

14. Relaxation Therapy

15. Assertiveness Training

16. Promoting Self-Esteem

17. Anger/Aggression Management

18. The Suicidal Client

19. Behavior Therapy

20. Cognitive Therapy

21. Psychopharmacology

22. Electroconvulsive Therapy

23. Complementary Therapies

24. Client Education

IV. Nursing Care of Clients with Alterations in Psychosocial Adaptation

25. Disorders Usually First Diagnosed in Infancy, Childhood, or Adolescence

26. Delirium, Dementia, and Amnestic Disorder

27. Substance-Related Disorders

28. Schizophrenia and Other Psychotic Disorders

29. Mood Disorders

30. Anxiety Disorders

31. Somatoform and Dissociative Disorders

32. Issues Related to Human Sexuality

33. Eating Disorders

34. Personality Disorders

V. Psychiatric/Mental Health Nursing of Special Populations

35. The Aging Individual

36. Victims of Abuse or Neglect

37. Community Mental Health Nursing

38. Forensic Nursing

39. The Bereaved Individual

Appendices

A. Answers to Chapter Review Questions

B. Mental Status Assessment

C. DSM-IV-TR Classification: Axes I and II Categories and Codes

D. NANDA Nursing Diagnoses: Taxonomy II

E. Assigning Nursing Diagnosis to Client Behaviors

F. Controlled Drug and Pregnancy Categories

G. Sample Client Teaching Guides

Glossary

• NEW! Clinical Pearl boxes highlight information important in the clinical setting.
• NEW! Reformatted Nursing Care plans.
• NEW! More in-depth explanations of nursing interventions appear in the DSM-IV chapters under Planning/ Implementation.
• NEW! Patient Outcomes in the care plans presented as measurable shortand long-term goals.
• NEW! Expanded Mental Status Assessment.
• NEW! Spirituality content, a spiritual assessment tool and new coverage of the Arab-American.
• NEW! Section on electronic documentation.
• NEW! Bulleted summaries of Key Points at the end of each chapter.
• NEW! Concept maps for ADHD.
• NEW! Brain schematic for ADHD.
• New and updated research articles for evidence-based nursing practice.
• Updated concept maps, including one in the chapter, Nursing Process.
• Updated brain schematics in text and animations on DavisPlus.
• New and updated information on psychotropic drugs.
• Consistently formatted Case Studies at the end of the disorder chapters.
• Review questions and updated references and web sites at the end of each chapter.
• NEW! Appendix for Controlled drug categories and pregnancy categories.