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


Author: Theodore
Edition: 1/e
ISBN: 9788131236529
Language: English
Published: 2015
Publisher: Elsevier, India

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.

Textbook of Mental Health Nursing, Vol. II, 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 NURSING CARE OF PATIENTS WITH ALTERED PSYCHOSOCIAL FUNCTION

1. Childhood Disorders 2

2. Organic Disorders 83

3. Substance-Related Disorders 117

4. Schizophrenia 153

5. Mood Disorders 171

6. Anxiety Disorders 209

7. Somatoform Disorders 240

8. Psychosexual Disorders 265

9. Personality Disorders 282

10. Psychophysiological Disorders 316

Section 2 COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH NURSING  

11. Primary Prevention 330

12. Secondary Prevention 341

13. Tertiary Prevention—Rehabilitation 361

14. National Mental Health Programme 372

15. National Health Policy and National Mental Health Policy 384

 Appendix 401

 Index 403