Foundations of Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing

PART I BASIC PSYCHIATRIC CONCEPTS : Historical Overview, Personality Theories, and Classification of Mental Illness; Predominant Therapies and Contemporary Issues; Legal and Ethical Issues; Cultural Diversity in Mental Health Nursing; Evolution of Nursing in Psychiatric Settings. PART 2 BASIC CONCEPTS IN PSYCHIATRIC NURSING: Communication - The Clinical Interview and The Nurse-Patient Relationship; Communication Within Groups; The Nursing Process in Psychiatric Settings; Anxiety; The Anxiety Continuum as a Conceptual Framework. PART 3 PEOPLE IN ACUTE ANXIETY: Crisis and Crisis Intervention; Families in Crisis: Family Violence; Evidence of Maladaptive Responses to Crisis: Rape. PART 4 PEOPLE IN MODERATE TO SEVERE LEVELS OF CHRONIC ANXIETY: Anxiety Disorders; Somatoform and Dissociative Disorders; Personality Disorders-Antisocial, Paranoid and Borderline. PART 5 PEOPLE IN SEVERE TO PANIC LEVELS OF CHRONIC ANXIETY: Alterations in Mood-Grief and Depression; Alterations in Mood-Elation; Schizophrenic Disorders; Cognitive Impairment Disorders. PART 6 PEOPLE WHO USE SELF-DESTRUCTIVE DEFENCES AGAINST ANXIETY: People Who Contemplate Suicide; People Who Defend Against Anxiety with Aggressive Behaviour; People Who Depend Upon Alcohol; People Who Depend Upon Substances Other Than Alcohol; People Who Defend Against Anxiety Through Eating Disorders. PART 7 MENTAL HEALTH ISSUES - SPECIAL POPULATIONS: The Hospitalized Person; Children and Adolescents; Adult Relationships and Sexuality; The Elderly; Chronic Mental Illness and The Mentally Ill Who are Homeless.