Introductory Mental Health Nursing (4th Edition)

Description

Introductory Mental Health Nursing, 4th Edition
Donna Womble, MEd, BS, RN; and Cynthia A. Kincheloe, MSN, BSN, ADN, RN

Confidently manage the mental health issues you’ll encounter across a wide range of health care settings.

Written specifically for LPN/LVN students, Introductory Mental Health Nursing, 4th Edition , equips you for the challenges of modern mental health nursing with clear, direct, clinically relevant information reflecting the most up-to-date perspectives in the field. This acclaimed text establishes essential groundwork then builds on fundamental concepts to instill a confident understanding of the delivery of mental health care, the nursing process and its relation to mental health, and the management of specific psychiatric disorders to prepare you for success from the classroom to your career.

• Enhanced! Case applications guide you in applying the nursing process to resolve clinical problems.
• Updated! Chapter-ending Student Worksheets reinforce key concepts through fill-in-the-blank, matching, and multiple-choice NCLEX®-style questions.
• At a Glance sections highlight or summarize essential information for stronger recall and retention.
• Just the Facts entries distill critical details for faster, more efficient review.
• Mind Jogger critical thinking questions promote deeper understanding.
• At-A-Glance Senior Focus helps you confidently prepare for the care of older adults or elderly clients.
• Updated terminology helps you ensure the most effective clinical communication.

Key Features

• New! Unfolding Case Studies provides “patients” to the content, allowing students to apply what they are reading.
• At a Glance sections highlight or summarize key information for better recall and retention.
• Just the Facts entries provide additional information on key topics.
• Mind Jogger critical thinking questions that promote deeper understanding.
• Senior Focus provides key information specific to the care of the older adult or elderly client.
• Client Post provides disorder-related and support information that students can use to teach clients and/or their families.
• Case Applications are actual scenarios with guided questions to help students apply the nursing process to resolve clinical problems.
• Chapter-ending Student Worksheets help students learn and retain key information through fill-in-the-blank, matching, and multiple choices, including multiple selection, NCLEX-style questions.

Table of Contents

1. Mental Health and Mental Illness
2. The Delivery of Mental Health Care
3. Theories of Personality Development
4. Treatment of Mental Illness
5. Establishing and Maintaining a Therapeutic Relationship
6. Dynamics of Anger, Violence, and Crises
7. Communication in Mental Health Nursing
8. The Nursing Process in Mental Health Nursing
9. Anxiety Disorders
10. Mood Disorders
11. Psychotic Disorders
12. Personality Disorders
13. Somatic Symptom and Related Disorders
14. Dissociative Disorders
15. Substance-Related Disorders
16. Eating Disorders
17. Sexual Disorders
18. Disorders and Issues of Children and Adolescents
19. Disorders and Issues of the Older Adult

Authors Biography

Donna Womble

Cynthia Kincheloe