Mental Health and Mental Illness
Lippincott Williams and Wilkins (Verlag)
978-0-397-55473-7 (ISBN)
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The sixth edition of this text seeks to assist the psychiatric-mental health nursing student by defining the LPN's role and responsibility within today's mental health team. It provides terminology and guidelines for nursing assessment and appropriate intervention. It also explains the importance of the therapeutic process and preparing the client for self-care. There are behavioural objectives at the beginning of each chapter, and NCLEX-style review questions at the end of each chapter. End of unit exercises include case studies with discussion questions to encourage the development of critical thinking skills. There are two new chapters in this edition, along with expanded material on topics such as eating disorders, substance-related disorders, patient and family teaching, co-dependency, post-traumatic stress disorder, and Alzheimer's Disease.
Part 1 Patterns of mental health care: current and evolving patterns of mental health care; community-based treatment settings for mental disorders; home care setting - client and family issues; impatient hospitalization - the mental health treatment team and the therapeutic milieu; legal and ethical issues in mental health nursing. Part 2 Concepts of psychiatric/mental health nursing: establishing the therapeutic nursing environment; building a person-centered therapeutic relationship; delivering mental health care in a continuum of settings. Part 3 Basic concepts of mental health: human development and needs; influence of family and social environment on the individual; the structure and development of personality. Part 4 Mental health and mental disorder: human emotions; stress - effective coping and adaptation; stress - ineffective coping and defence mechanisms; mental status exam. Part 5 Nursing the client with a mental disorder: nursing process in the mental health setting; nursing diagnosis in the mental health setting; nursing care planning with specific types of disordered mental states; nursing care of the older adult with a mental disorder. Part 6 Categories of mental disorders: disorders usually first diagnosed during infancy, childhood, or adolescence; delirium, dementia, and amnestic and other cognitive disorders; substance-related disorders; schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders; mood disorders; anxiety and somatoform disorders; personality disorders. Part 7 Intervention and treatment of mental disorders: crisis intervention; milieu therapy and behaviour modification; group therapy; psychopharmacology and electroshock treatment of mental disorders.
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 1.12.1997 |
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| Zusatzinfo | 6 illustrations, 20 tables, glossary, index |
| Verlagsort | Philadelphia |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 155 x 235 mm |
| Gewicht | 660 g |
| Themenwelt | Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Psychiatrie / Psychotherapie |
| Pflege ► Fachpflege ► Neurologie / Psychiatrie | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-397-55473-7 / 0397554737 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-397-55473-7 / 9780397554737 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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