Psychiatric mental health nursing : concepts of care in evidence-based practice

Townsend, Mary C. 1941- (Author).

Summary: Provides the most clearly written, comprehensive text for psychiatric mental health nursing. Its evidence-based, holistic approach to nursing practice focuses on both biological and behavioral components.

Record details

ISBN: 9780803640924 (hardcover)
Physical Description: print
xxiv, 961 p. : col. ill. ; 30 cm.
Edition: Eighth ed.
Publisher: Philadelphia : F.A. Davis Company, 2015.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Basic concepts in psychiatric/mental health nursing -- The concept of stress adaptation -- Mental health/mental illness: historical and theoretical concepts -- Foundations for psychiatric/mental health nursing -- Theoretical models of personality development -- Concepts of psychobiology -- Ethical and legal issues in psychiatric/mental health nursing -- Cultural and spiritual concepts relevant to psychiatric/mental health nursing -- Therapeutic approaches in psychiatric nursing care -- Relationship development -- Therapeutic communication -- The nursing process in psychiatric/mental health nursing -- Therapeutic groups -- Intervention with families -- Milieu therapy: the therapeutic community -- Crisis intervention -- Assertiveness training -- Promoting self-esteem -- Anger/agression management -- The suicidal client -- Behavior therapy -- Cognitive therapy -- Electroconvulsive therapy -- Recovery model -- Nursing care of clients with alterations in psychosocial adaptation -- Neurocognitive disorders -- Substance-related 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 -- Psychiatric/mental health nursing of special population -- Children and adolescents -- The aging individual -- Survivors of abuse or neglect -- Community mental health nursing -- The bereaved individual -- Military families -- Appendices A. Answers to chapter review questions B. Examples of answers to communication exercises C. Mental status assessment D. DSM-5 classification E. NANDA nursing diagnoses: taxonomy II F. Assigning nursing diagnoses to client behaviors -- Glossary.