Description

For courses in psychiatric-mental health nursing in any nursing program.

 

CONTEMPORARY PSYCHIATRIC-MENTAL HEALTH NURSING, 3/e is the most up-to-date, evidence-based, culturally competent, authoritative, and comprehensive resource for psychiatric-mental health nursing. The authors emphasize the importance of empathy and client empowerment, while providing the knowledge and clinical competence that psychiatric-mental health nurses can use to help diverse clients heal on both psychobiologic and spiritual levels. They prepare students to tailor and humanize interventions for traditional as well as “new” psychiatric-mental health clients encountered in forensic settings, homeless shelters, and in other community and rehab settings. Since advances in neuroscience and genetics are redefining the scientific understanding of mental disorders, the authors offer a solid grounding in psychobiology, including brain imaging assessment and new psychopharmacologic treatment options. This edition adds a full chapter on Recovery and Psychiatric Rehabilitation Strategies, and many new boxed features showing how psychiatric disorders are portrayed in the news and movies.

Features

For courses in psychiatric-mental health nursing in any nursing program.

 

CONTEMPORARY PSYCHIATRIC-MENTAL HEALTH NURSING, 3/e is the most up-to-date, evidence-based, culturally competent, authoritative, and comprehensive resource for psychiatric-mental health nursing. The authors emphasize the importance of empathy and client empowerment, while providing the knowledge and clinical competence that psychiatric-mental health nurses can use to help diverse clients heal on both psychobiologic and spiritual levels. They prepare students to tailor and humanize interventions for traditional as well as “new” psychiatric-mental health clients encountered in forensic settings, homeless shelters, and in other community and rehab settings. Since advances in neuroscience and genetics are redefining the scientific understanding of mental disorders, the authors offer a solid grounding in psychobiology, including brain imaging assessment and new psychopharmacologic treatment options. This edition adds a full chapter on Recovery and Psychiatric Rehabilitation Strategies, and many new boxed features showing how psychiatric disorders are portrayed in the news and movies.

 

Hallmark Features

 

Thoroughly prepares students for the experience of working as a psychiatric-mental health nurse. Introduces students to the clients they will encounter, explains what it means to be a psychiatric-mental health nurse, presents the professional and personal attributes that enable artful therapeutic practice, and discusses why it is crucial to base the therapeutic nurse-client relationship on both theoretical understandings and appropriate clinical techniques.

 

Gives students the core skills they need to succeed as psychiatric-mental health nurses. Thoroughly covers therapeutic communication, assessment, ethics, advocacy, clients’ rights, legal and forensic issues, and therapeutic environments for care.

 

Designed for students with a wide variety of learning styles and backgrounds. Written clearly and understandably, in language and formats that will appeal to students of all types.

 

Helps students succeed in evidence-based psychiatric-mental health nursing practice. Presents the best available evidence generated in research to help students excel in practice.

 

Gives students a strong grounding in neuroscientific and genomic principles. Includes extensive coverage of recent scientific research, emerging principles, and new pharmacological and non-pharmacological options that are reshaping psychiatric-mental health care.

 

Helps students work with clients from widely diverse backgrounds in an increasingly global setting. Offers extensive cross-cultural information that is highly relevant to the clinical setting and the nurse-client relationship.

 

Prepares students to work with patients suffering from many specific DSM mental disorders. Outlines the defining characteristics of each disorder, covers the biopsychosocial theories necessary to understand them, and shows how to apply the nursing process to caring for clients who have these disorders.

 

Helps students address the unique needs of vulnerable populations. Includes extensive coverage of clients who are at risk for self-destructive behavior; sexual abuse and family violence; and the needs of clients in specific age groups.

 

Prepares students to participate successfully in a wide range of modalities and strategies. Introduces therapeutic groups, family-focused strategies, crisis intervention, cognitive-behavioral interventions, psychopharmacology, recovery and psychiatric rehabilitation, complementary, alternative, and integrative healing practices, and techniques for managing anger and preventing violence in psychiatric settings.

 

Helps students avoid the limitations of any single theory or ideology. Presents a fully-integrated biopsychosocial perspective throughout.

New to this Edition

Updated throughout to reflect the field’s latest trends, offer more coherent and integrated discussions of key issues, and help readers link what they are learning to the high-profile presentations of psychiatric and mental disorders in the news and entertainment media.

 

New! New chapter on Recovery and Psychiatric Rehabilitation Strategies—focusing on what it means to recover from a debilitating mental disorder and the proven strategies that can be used to help clients achieve recovery.

• Supports students working in today’s increasingly common recovery and psychiatric rehabilitation settings 

Improved! Reorganized for clarity and easier understanding—more clearly illuminating the elements required to developing a therapeutic alliance with clients (Chapter 4); knowledge and skills for partnering with clients’ families (Chapter 30); and anger management (Chapter 35)

• Makes it easier for students to gain an integrated and usable understanding of crucial elements of psychiatric-mental health caregiving 

New! “Mental Health in the Movies” boxes—revealing how the depiction of mental illness in cinema shapes societal attitudes and behaviors toward persons with mental disorders.

• Helps students connect what they are learning with what they and their patients have seen in the movies 

New! “Mental Health in the News” boxes— highlighting the successes and difficulties faced by others who reveal their own struggles and seek help or fail to seek help.

• Helps students more clearly understand the news media’s impact on their clients and client relationships 

New! “Developing Cultural Competence” boxes —illuminating cultural forces that influence the experience and expression of mental disorders, and posing critical thinking questions.

• Prepares students to help culturally diverse client populations more effectively 

New! “Why I Plan to Became a Psychiatric–Mental Health Nurse” boxes—presenting the personal stories of students in psychiatric-mental health nursing courses who chose this nursing specialty

• Helps students understand the motivations for becoming a Psychiatric–Mental Health Nurse, and make better decisions about their own career paths

Table of Contents

1. Mental Health, Mental Disorder, and Psychiatric-Mental Health Clients: Who Are They?

 

2. Psychiatric-Mental Health Nurses: Who Are They?

3. Self-Awareness and the Psychiatric-Mental Health Nurse

4. The Therapeutic Nurse-Client Relationship

 

Unit II. Theoretical Basis for Psychiatric-Mental Health Nursing Practice

5. Theories for Interdisciplinary Care in Psychiatry

6. The Biologic Basis of Behavioral and Mental Disorders

7. The Science of Psychopharmacology

8. Stress, Anxiety, and Coping

9. Cultural Competence

 

Unit III. Psychiatric-Mental Health Nursing Processes

10. Therapeutic Communication

11. Psychiatric-Mental Health Assessment

12. Ethics, Clients’ Rights, and Legal and Forensic Issues

13. Creating Hospital and Community-Based Therapeutic Environments

 

Unit IV. Clients with Mental Disorders

14. Cognitive Disorders

15. Substance-Related Disorders

16. Schizophrenia

17. Mood Disorders

18. Anxiety Disorders

19. Dissociative, Somatoform, and Factitious Disorders

20. Gender Identity and Sexual Disorders

21. Eating Disorders

22. Personality Disorders

 

Unit V. Vulnerable Populations

23. Clients at Risk for Suicide and Self-Destructive Behavior

24. Intrafamily Violence: Physical and Sexual Abuse

25. Children

26. Adolescents

27. Elders

 

Unit VI. Intervention Strategies

28. Therapeutic Groups

29. Family-Focused Interventions

30. Cognitive and Behavioral Interventions

31. Psychopharmacologic Nursing Interventions

32. Recovery and Psychiatric Rehabilitation Strategies

33. Complementary, Alternative, and Integrative Healing Practices

34. Crisis Intervention

35. Anger Management and Intervention in Psychiatric-Mental Health Settings