Textbook of Mental Health Nursing, Vol. I, 1/e

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Inside this feature-rich, reader-friendly two-volume textbook, you find the mental health nursing fundamentals that a student of B.Sc. nursing needs to know. Offering complete, accurate coverage of mental disorders, concepts, and theories, it provides everything that you can expect from an authority in the mental health nursing. 

Key Features               

• Concepts are precise, clearly explained, simple, and easy to understand and remember from the exam point of view

• Clinical features are clearly presented, thus making the formulation of nursing diagnosis easy

• A guide to clinical practice in terms of use of nursing process in patient care

• Comprehensive in describing the role of a psychiatric mental health nurse in various therapies

• Discusses psychiatry and psychiatric nursing in terms of the Indian context

• Contains both objective and subjective review questions at the end of each chapter 

Table of Contents

Section 1 CONCEPTS AND THEORIES

1. Concept of Mental Health and Mental Illness 2

2. Theoretical Models of Personality Development 26

3. Conceptual Models of Psychiatric Care 51

4. Roles and Functions of a Psychiatric Nurse 87

5. Nursing Process in Psychiatric Nursing 105

6. Legal and Ethical Aspects 115

7. Standards and Principles of Psychiatric Nursing 133

8. Documentation in Psychiatric Nursing 143

9. Stress and Coping in Psychiatric Nursing 152

Section 2 HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES  

10. History of Psychiatry and Psychiatric Nursing 160

Section 3 CLASSIFICATION OF MENTAL ILLNESSES  

11. Classification of Mental Disorders 182

Section 4 ASSESSMENT IN MENTAL HEALTH NURSING  

12. Different Forms of Assessment 196

Section 5 THERAPEUTIC APPROACHES IN MENTAL HEALTH NURSING  

13. Somatic Therapies 242

14. Psychopharmacology 256

15. Interpersonal Relationship 278

16. Therapeutic Communication 291

17. Group Therapy 304

18. Family Therapy 312

19. Behaviour Modification 323

20. Crisis Intervention 338

21. Milieu Therapy 348

22. Cognitive Behaviour Therapy 360

23. Anger and Aggression Management 370

24. Psychological Treatment 382

25. Play Therapy 393

26. Activity Therapy 403

27. Psychoeducation 423

28. Complementary and Alternative Therapies 427

 Appendix 449

 Index 451