Essential Theories and Practices in Mental Health Nursing

Part 1 The structure and framework of mental health nursing: introduction to mental health care settings; a historical perspective on the treatment of the mentally ill; non-nurse players in the mental health setting; modern psychiatric nursing. Part 2 Ethical, legal, and regulatory considerations: ethical and legal considerations. Part 3 Psychiatric nursing and ways of thinking about mental health and mental illness: putting mental illness and mentally ill persons into a manageable perspective; what makes people become mentally ill?; the tools of the nurse as a person; communications tools; developing a theoretical perspective; the major school of thought. Part 4 Patterns of abnormality: introduction to diagnostic categories; the psychotic diagnostic categories; personality disorders and the sexual disorders. Part 5 Specific tools for changing thinking, feelings, and behaviour in the mental health settings: psychotherapeutic techniques; electroconvulsive therapy; chemical (psychopharmacological) therapy. Part 6 Therapeutic approaches to specific populations: care for patients in crisis; care for aggressive patients; care for anxious patients; care for suspicious patients; care for depressed patients; care for suicidal persons; care for patients who have lost reality contact; care for children and adolescents; care for patients who have neurological deficits; care for victims of abuse; care for eating disordered persons; care for the chemically dependent; care for patients requiring rehabilitation services; care for geriatric psychiatric patients; care for hospitalized medical-surgical patients; care for dying patients.