Essentials of psychiatric mental health nursing [electronic resource] : concepts of care in evidence-based practice / Mary C. Townsend.

Unit one. Introduction to psychiatric/mental health concepts. 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. Unit two. Psychiatric/mental health nursing interventions. Relationship development and therapeutic communication
The nursing process in psychiatric/mental health nursing
Milieu therapy: the therapeutic community
Intervention in groups
Intervening in crises
Complementary and psychosocial therapies. Unit three. Care of clients with psychiatric disorders. Delirium, dementia, and amnestic disorders
Substance-related disorders
Schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders
Mood disorders: depression
Mood disorders: bipolar disorder
Anxiety disorders
Somatoform and dissociative disorders
Issues related to human sexuality
Eating disorders
Personality disorders. Unit four. Psychiatric mental health nursing of special populations. Children and adolescents
Victims of abuse or neglect
The aging individual
Community mental health nursing
The bereaved individual. Appendix A: DSM-IV-TR classification: Axes I and II categories and codes
Appendix B: NANDA nursing diagnoses: taxonomy II
Appendix C: Assigning nursing diagnoses to client behaviors
Appendix D: Mental status assessment
Appendix E: Glossary
Appendix F: Answers to review questions.