Main description:

The new edition of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing focuses on practice in mental health and psychiatric care integrating theory and the realities of practice. Mental wellness is featured as a concept, and the consideration of a range of psychosocial factors helps students contextualise mental illness and psychiatric disorders. The holistic approach helps the student and the beginning practitioner understand the complex causation of mental illness, its diagnosis, effective interventions and treatments, and the client's experience of mental illness.

Contents:

PART 1

Preparing for psychiatric and mental health nursing

1

The  Effective Nurse

Debra Jackson and Louise O'Brien

2

The Context of Practice

Vicki Stanton and Barbara Tooth

3

Historical Foundations

Katie Evans

4

The Australian and New Zealand politico-legal context

Eimear Muir-Cochrane, Anthony O'Brien and Timothy Wand

5

Professional and ethical issues

Anthony O'Brien, Phillip Maude and Eimear Muir-Cochrane

PART 2

Mental health and wellness

6

Mental Health in Australia and New Zealand

Pat Bradley and Ruth De Souza

7

Indigenous Mental Health

Deanne Hellsten and Hineroa Hakiaha

8

Theories on Mental Health and Illness

Patricia Barkway

9

Mental Health Across the  Lifespan

Debra Nizette

10

Crisis and Loss

Paul Morrison

11

Assessment and Diagnosis

Jan Barling

PART 3

Understanding mental illness

12

Intellectual Disabilities

Charles Harmon, Philip Petrie and Chris Taua

13

Disorders of Childhood and Adolescence

Mike Groome, Kristin Henderson

14

Disorders of Old Age

Wendy Moyle

15

Schizophrenic Disorders

Murray Bardwell and Richard Taylor

16

Mood Disorders

Peter Athanasos

17

Personality Disorders

Michelle Cleary, Jan Horsfall

18

Anxiety Disorders

Katie Evans

19

Eating Disorders

Gail Anderson

20

Substance-related Disorders and Dual Diagnosis

Janette Curtis and Peter Athanasos

21

Somatoform and Dissociative Disorders

Ruth Elder

22

Forensic Mental Health Nursing

Brian McKenna and Trish Martin

PART 4

Developing skills for mental health nursing

23

Settings for Mental Health

Ruth Elder, Julie Sharrock, Phillip Maude, Michael Olasoji

24

The Patient as Person

Kim Usher, Kim Foster

25

Therapeutic Interventions

Christine Palmer

26

Psychopharmacology

Kim Usher and Kim Foster