Main description:

Here's the must-know information LPN/LVN students need to care for patients with mental health disorders where they'll encounter them in general patient care settings.

An easy-to-read, conversational writing style shows you how to recognize and respond to the most important mental health issues. You'll also explore important communication techniques, ethical and legal issues, and alternative and complementary treatments. Coverage of nursing interventions, basic psychiatric nursing skills, and psychopharmacology prepares you for the NCLEX-PN (R) exam and clinical practice.

Better than the mental health chapter from a typical textbook"Everything you need to learn about mental health."-Lisa J., Online Student Reviewer

Perfect"Easy to study, love it."-Liza, Online Student Reviewer

Expanded! "LPN/LVN Connections," a consistent, LPN/LVN-focused approach to design, organization, and features, makes F.A. Davis texts easier for students and instructors to use across the curriculum
Updated! The latest knowledge and practices in the field, including revisions from the DSM-5-TR 2022
New & Updated! Coverage of the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on anxiety and depression, the opioid crisis, and mental illness in the homeless and veteran populations, and systemic racism in health care
New! "Patient Education" and "Evidence-Based Practice" boxes

Full-color illustrations, tables, bulleted lists, and a reader-friendly writing style to make concepts easy to understand
Focus on the new, NCLEX-PN (R) test plan
Coverage of mental health conditions across the lifespan
Care plans with detailed descriptions of specific interventions and expected outcomes
Content on specific nursing interventions and basic psychiatric nursing skills
Coverage of psychopharmacology, including must-know side effects
Case studies with critical-thinking questions to emphasize clinical-reasoning skills
Crucial information on palliative and restorative care for long-term care settings
Discussions on alternative treatment modalities to facilitate communications with people of different religious and cultural backgrounds as well as descriptions of religious and cultural beliefs and their impact on mental health and treatment

Contents:

I.Foundations for Mental Health Nursing
1.History of Mental Health Nursing
2.Basics of Communication
3.Ethics, Evidence-Based Practice, and Regulations
4.Developmental Psychology Throughout the Life Span
5.Sociocultural Influences on Mental Health
6.Nursing Process in Mental Health
7.Stress, Coping, and Defense Mechanisms
8.Medications and Other Therapies
9.Complementary and Alternative Treatment Modalities
II.Threats to Mental Health
10.Anxiety, Somatic Symptom Disorders, and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
11.Depressive Disorders
12.Bipolar Disorders
13.Suicide
14.Personality Disorders
15.Schizophrenia Spectrum and Other Psychotic Disorders
16.Neurocognitive Disorders: Delirium and Dementia
17.Substance Use and Addictive Disorders
18.Eating Disorders
III.Special Populations
19.Childhood and Adolescent Mental Health Issues
20.Postpartum Issues in Mental Health
21.Aging Population
22.Abuse and Violence
Appendices
Glossary