- Case Study and Nursing Care Plan boxes include real-life vignettes of patients with specific psychiatric disorders. - Evidence-Based Practice boxes describe recent research studies and how their findings affect nursing practice. - Six-step nursing process is followed in clinical chapters, providing consistent guidelines for comprehensive assessment and intervention. - Learning features include key terms and concepts, key points to remember, critical thinking, and chapter reviews. - Conversational, mentor-like writing style reinforces important information and helps in applying textbook content to the clinical setting. - Coverage of therapeutic communication techniques and nontherapeutic communication provides tips to help you build patient interaction skills. - Assessment Guidelines summarize the steps of patient assessment for various disorders. - Considering Culture boxes discuss the importance of person-centered care in providing competent care to diverse populations in various clinical situations. - Patient and Family Teaching boxes focus on the nurse's role in helping patients and families understand psychiatric disorders, treatments, complications, and medication side effects. - NEW! Next Generation NCLEX? (NGN) case studies and questions are provided at the end of each clinical chapter to support critical thinking and prepare you for your state board examination. - NEW! Updated screening tools and rating scales make it easier to quantify symptoms and assess the severity of a disorder. - NEW! Advanced practice treatment modalities are addressed separately from the nursing process in the categories of biological interventions (e.g., pharmacotherapy and brain stimulation therapies) and psychological therapies (e.g., cognitive-behavioral therapy and interpersonal therapy). - NEW! Emphasis on adverse childhood experiences, trauma, and trauma-informed care addresses the near-universal experience of trauma in individuals with psychiatric disorders and conditions. - NEW! Order of clinical chapters mirrors that of the DSM-5, and many of the major disorders are accompanied by specific DSM-5 diagnostic criteria. - NEW! Health Policy boxes are updated to describe current legislation related to mental health. - NEW! The International Classification for Nursing Practice (ICNP), from the International Council of Nurses (ICN), provides straightforward nursing diagnoses that are easily translatable across settings and disciplines.
Table of Contents
�?�UNIT ONE: FOUNDATIONS IN THEORY
Chapter 1 Mental Health and Mental Illness
Chapter 2 Relevant Theories and Therapies for Nursing Practice
Chapter 3 Biological Basis for Understanding Psychiatric Disorders and Treatments
UNIT TWO: FOUNDATIONS FOR PRACTICE
Chapter 4 Settings for Psychiatric Care
Chapter 5 Cultural Implications for Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing
Chapter 6 Legal and Ethical Guidelines for Safe Practice
UNIT THREE: PSYCHOSOCIAL NURSING TOOLS
Chapter 7 The Nursing Process and Standards of Care for Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing
Chapter 8 Therapeutic Relationships
Chapter 9 Communication and the Clinical Interview
Chapter 10 Understanding and Managing Responses to Stress
UNIT FOUR: PSYCHOBIOLOGICAL DISORDERS
Chapter 11Childhood and Neurodevelopmental Disorders
Chapter 12 Schizophrenia and Schizophrenia Spectrum Disorders
Chapter 13 Bipolar and Related Disorders
Chapter 14 Depressive Disorders
Chapter 15 Anxiety and Obsessive Compulsive Related Disorders
Chapter 16 Trauma, Stressor Related and Dissociative Disorders
Chapter 17 Somatic Symptom Disorders
Chapter 18 Feeding, Eating and Elimination Disorders
Chapter 19 Sleep-Wake Disorders
Chapter 20 Sexual Dysfunction, Gender Dysphoria, and Paraphylias
Chapter 21 Impulsive Control Disorders
Chapter 22 Personality Disorders
UNIT FIVE: TRAUMA INTERVENTIONS
Chapter 23 Suicide and Non-Suicidal Self-Injury
Chapter 24 Crisis and Disaster
Chapter 25 Anger, Aggression and Violence
Chapter 26 Child, Elder, and Intimate Partner Violence
Chapter 27 Sexual Assault
UNIT SIX: INTERVENTIONS FOR SPECIAL POPULATIONS
Chapter 28 Psychosocial Needs of the Older Adult
Chapter 29 Serious Mental Illness
Chapter 30 Forensic Psychiatric Nursing
Chapter 32 Care for the Dying and for Those Who Grieve
UNIT SEVEN: OTHER INTERVENTION MODALITIES
Chapter 33Therapeutic Groups
Chapter 34 Family Interventions
Chapter 35 Integrative Therapies
APPENDICES
A DSM-5 Classification
B Historic Synopsis of Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing
GLOSSARY
INDEX
