Contemporary Psychiatric-Mental Health Nursing
Second Edition
Carol Ren Kneisl / Eileen Trigoboff
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Chapter 1: Psychiatric-Mental Health Clients: Who Are They?
Chapter 2: Psychiatric–Mental Health Nurses: Who Are They?
Chapter 3: Artful Therapeutic Practice
Chapter 4: Engaging in Evidence-Based Practice
Chapter 5: Philosophy and Theories for Interdisciplinary Psychiatric Care
Chapter 6: Psychobiology, Behavior, and Mental Disorders
Chapter 7: The Science of Psychopharmacology
Chapter 8: Stress, Anxiety, and Coping
Chapter 9: Mental Health, Mental Disorder, and Cultural Competence
Chapter 10: Communicating and Relating
Chapter 11: Assessment
Chapter 12: Creating Hospital and Community-Based Therapeutic Environments
Chapter 13: Ethics, Clients’ Rights, and Legal/Forensic Issues
Chapter 14: Cognitive Disorders
Chapter 15: Substance-Related Disorders
Chapter 16: Schizophrenia and Other Psychotic Disorders
Chapter 17: Mood Disorders
Chapter 18: Anxiety and Dissociative Disorders
Chapter 19: Somatoform and Sleep Disorders
Chapter 20: Gender Identity and Sexual Disorders
Chapter 21: Eating Disorders
Chapter 22: Personality Disorders
Chapter 23: Clients at Risk for Suicide and Self-Destructive Behavior
Chapter 24: Persons at Risk for Abuse or Violence
Chapter 25: Psychiatric–Mental Health Clients with HIV/AIDS
Chapter 26: Children
Chapter 27: Adolescents
Chapter 28: Elders
Chapter 29: Counseling the Individual
Chapter 30: Group and Family Interventions
Chapter 31: Cognitive and Behavioral Interventions
Chapter 32: Psychopharmacologic Nursing Interventions
Chapter 33: Complementary and Alternative Healing Practices
Chapter 34: Crisis Intervention
Chapter 35: Intervening in Violence in the Psychiatric Setting
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