Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing (Paperback)

This comprehensive book equips the nursing students with the practical core knowledge they need to manage the patients in general psychiatric wards in a clinic. Students need to understand psychosocial aspects of physiological illness and disability, and gender issues, age-related problems and life-styles. Covers disciplines such as psychiatry, pharmacology, neurology, sociology and psychology. Describes specific health conditions of a patient and shows ways to organize treatment

Key Featues
* This book provides students of nursing profession with solid foundation for taking care of mentally ill persons and meet the mental health needs of individuals, families, small groups can communities.
* This book provides extensive treatment of the subject in a very lucid and cogent manner, so that students can grasp the subject very clearly and completely.
* It covers all the area, specified by the Indian Nursing Council, Indian Universities and Boards of Nursing that are imparting Diplomas and Degrees in Nursing.

Table of Contents
1. Concepts of Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing
2. Evolution of Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing
3. Theoretical Foundations of Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing
4. Psychobiological Foundation of Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing
5. The Therapeutic Nurse-Client Relationship and Communication
6. Basic Aspects of Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing
7. Nursing Process Applications in Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing
8. The Therapeutic Use of Self Concept
9. Therapeutic Intervention
10. Crisis Theory and Crisis Intervention
11. Anxiety Disorders
12. Sleep Disorders
13. Somatoform Disorders
14. Eating Disorders
15. Schizophrenia
16. Mood Disorders
17. Personality Disorders
18. Substance Abuse Related Disorders
19. Psychophysiological Disorders
20. Cognitive Disorders
21. Dissociative Disorders
22. Sexual and Gender Identity Disorders
23. Psychopharmacology
24. Child and Adolescent Disorders
25. Community Mental Health Nursing (CMHN).