Essentials of psychiatric mental health nursing : concepts of care in evidence-based practice / Mary C. Townsend.
By: Townsend, Mary C
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Philadelphia : F.A. Davis Co., ©2014Edition: 6th ed.Description: xxviii, 925 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.ISBN: 9780803638761; 0803638760.Subject(s): Psychiatric Nursing -- methods![](/opac-tmpl/bootstrap/images/filefind.png)
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Whether it's an entire course on psychiatric nursing or integrating these principles into an existing course, this title offers an evidence-based, holistic approach to mental health nursing - in a streamlined format that explores nursing diagnoses for both physiological and psychological disorders.
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