Focusing on what psychiatric nurses actually do in everyday practice, this full-color text covers all of the most common disorders and treatments. A balanced nursing-medical approach includes a strong emphasis on the nursing process, DSM-IV-TR diagnostic criteria, and interdisciplinary interventions. This book offers an approach that is clear, straightforward, and holistic to boost confidence in managing clients and to help students prepare for success on the NCLEX examination.


PART I: FOUNDATIONS FOR PSYCHIATRIC MENTAL HEALTH NURSING
1. Psychiatric Nursing: Theory, Principles, and Trends

2. Nursing Practice in the Clinical Setting

3. The Nursing Process and Standards of Care

4. Therapeutic Communication: Interviews and Interventions

PART II: BIOLOGIC AND PSYCHOSOCIAL PRINCIPLES FOR MENTAL HEALTH NURSING
5. Adaptation to Stress

6. Neurobiology in Mental Health and Mental Disorder

7. Human Development Across the Life Span

8. Culture, Ethnicity, and Spirituality: A Global Perspective

9. Legal and Ethical Aspects in Clinical Practice

PART III: PSYCHIATRIC DISORDERS
10. Anxiety and Related Disorders

11. Somatoform, Factitious, and Dissociative Disorders

12. Mood Disorders: Depression, Bipolar, and Adjustment Disorders

13. Schizophrenia and Other Psychotic Disorders

14. Personality Disorders

15. Substance Related Disorders and Addictive Behaviors

16. Cognitive Disorders: Delirium, Dementia, and Amnestic Disorders

17. Disorders of Infancy, Childhood, and Adolescence

18. Eating Disorders: Anorexia Nervosa and Bulimia Nervosa

19. Sleep Disorders: Dyssomnias and Parasomnias

20. Sexual Disorders: Sexual Dysfunctions and Paraphilias

PART IV: CRISIS AND PSYCHIATRIC EMERGENCIES

21. Crisis: Theory and Intervention

22. Suicide: Prevention and Intervention

23. Violence: Anger, Abuse, and Aggression

24. Forensic Nursing in Clinical Practice

PART V: THERAPEUTIC INTERVENTIONS

25. Psychopharmacology

26. Therapies: Theory and Clinical Practice

27. Complementary and Alternative Therapies

PART VI: NURSING INTERVENTIONS WITH SPECIAL POPULATIONS

28. Grief in Loss and Death

29. Emotional and Mental Responses to Medical Illness

PART VII: NURSING INTERVENTIONS IN THE HOME AND COMMUNITY

30. Community Mental Health Nursing for Patients with Severe and Persistent Mental Illness