Essentials of psychiatric mental health nursing : concepts of care in evidence-based practice - Townsend, Mary C., 1941- (Philadelphia : F.A. Davis Co., 2008)
Mental health and mental illness -- Concepts of personality development -- Biological implications -- Ethical and legal issues -- Cultural and spiritual concepts relevant to psychiatric/mental -- Health nursing -- Relationship development and therapeutic communication -- The nursing process in psychiatric/mental health nursing -- Milieu therapy - The therapeutic community -- Intervention in groups -- Intervening in crises -- The recovery model -- Complementary and psychosocial therapies -- Neurocognitive disorders -- Substance use and addictive disorders -- Schizophrenia spectrum and other psychotic disorders -- Depressive disorders -- Bipolar and related disorders -- Anxiety, obsessive-compulsive, and related disorders -- Trauma- and stressor-related disorders -- Somatic symptom and dissociative disorders -- Issues related to human sexuality and gender dysphoria -- Eating disorders -- Personality disorders -- Children and adolescents -- Victims of abuse or neglect -- The aging individual -- Community mental health nursing -- The bereaved individual -- Military families.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Keywords: Psychiatric Nursing -- methods; Evidence-Based Nursing; Mental Disorders -- nursing