Textbook of Mental Health Nursing (Paperback)

Key Features
* The role of a psychiatric nurse has undergone rapid and dynamic changes in recent years. The present day practising nurses also require a concise, ready reference source for better understanding of mental illnesses and mental health problems in order to take proper care of their patients.

* The chapters in this book are organised in logical sequence based on practical view. The text deals with the history of mental health care, legal aspects, classification of mental disorders, communication and therapeutic relationship, various mental disorders with nursing care and community psychiatry

Table of Contents
1. Mental Health: Mental Illness Concepts
2. Role of Psychiatric Nurse
3. Historical Development of Psychiatry and Psychiatric Nursing
4. Classification in Psychiatry
5. Conceptual Models
6. Therapeutic Communication and Therapeutic Relationship
7. Therapeutic Impasses
8. Physical Methods of Therapy
9. The Therapeutic Community? Milieu Therapy
10. Psychological Therapy
11. Family Therapy
12. Occupational Therapy
13. Schizophrenia
14. Organic Mental Disorders
15. Mood Disorders
16. Neurosis
17. Child Psychiatry
18. Personality Disorders
19. Psychophysiological Disorders
20. Psychosexual Disorders
21. Alcoholism and Associated Disorders
22. Psychiatry Emergency
23. Forensic Psychiatry
24. Crisis and Grief
25. Suicide Prevention
26. Community Psychiatry
27. Assessment of Psychiatric Patients
28. Nursing Standards
Appendices.
Index