Prentice Hall Reviews & Rationales

Mary Ann Hogan, MSN, RN has been a nurse educator for 25 years, currently as a Clinical Associate Professor at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. She has taught in diploma, associate degree, and baccalaureate nursing programs.A former item writer for the CAT NCLEX-RN® exam,Ms. Hogan has been teaching review courses throughout New England for the last 15 years. She also has contributed to a number of publications in the areas of adult health, pharmacology, and fundamentals of nursing. She is a member of the American Nurses Association and Sigma Theta Tau, the International Honor Society for Nursing.

1. Overview of Psychiatric-Mental Health Nursing


 2. Crisis Intervention and Suicide


 3. Infancy, Childhood, Adolescence, and Developmental Disabilitiess


 4. Mood Disorders


 5. Anxiety Disorders


 6. Somatoform Disorders 


 7. Dissociative Disorders


 8. Personality Disorders


 9. Schizophrenia and Other Psychotic Disorders


10. Delirium, Dementia, and Other Cognitive Mental Disorders


11. Substance Use Disorders


12. Family Violence and Sexual Assault   ***NEW CHAPTER*** 


13. Loss, Grief, and Death


14. Psychological Adaptation to Mental Illness


Appendix: Answers to Practice to Pass & Case Studies


Index