Principles and practice of psychiatric nursing / Gail W. Stuart

Includes index.

Roles and functions of psychiatric nurses: competent caring -- Therapeutic nurse-patient relationship -- Conceptual models of psychiatric treatment -- The Stuart stress adaptation model of psychiatric nursing care -- Evidence-based psychiatric nursing practice -- Biological context of psychiatric nursing care -- Psychological context of psychiatric nursing care -- Social, cultural, and spiritual context of psychiatric nursing care -- Environmental context of psychiatric nursing care -- Legal and ethical context of psychiatric nursing care -- Families as resources, caregivers, and collaborators -- Implementing the nursing process: standards of care and professional performance -- Mental health promotion and illness prevention -- Crisis intervention -- Psychiatric rehabilitation and recovery -- Anxiety responses and anxiety disorders -- Psychophysiological responses and somatoform and sleep disorders -- Self-concept responses and dissociative disorders -- Emotional responses and mood disorders -- Self-protective responses and suicidal behavior -- Neurobiological responses and schizophrenia and psychotic disorders -- Social responses and personality disorders -- Cognitive responses and organic mental disorders -- Chemically mediated responses and substance-related disorders -- Eating regulation responses and eating disorders -- Sexual responses and sexual disorders -- Psychopharmacology -- Somatic therapies -- Complementary and alternative therapies -- Preventing and managing aggressive behavior -- Cognitive behavioral treatment strategies -- Therapeutic groups -- Family interventions -- Hospital-based psychiatric nursing care -- Community-based psychiatric nursing care -- Child psychiatric nursing -- Adolescent psychiatric nursing -- Geropsychiatric nursing -- Care of survivors of abuse and violence -- Psychological care of patients with life-threatening illness

Principles and Practice of Psychiatric Nursing, 8th Edition provides comprehensive coverage of psychiatric nursing. Beginning with fundamental coverage of all key psychiatric nursing principles, it goes on to address the complete continuum of care--including mental health promotion and illness prevention, crisis intervention, and psychiatric rehabilitation and recovery. The book then applies psychiatric nursing principles to specific clinical disorders based on adaptive-maladaptive coping responses, the six-step nursing process, and DSM-IV-TR and NANDA diagnoses. Subsequent chapters describe various modalities of treatment psychopharmacology, somatic therapies, cognitive and behavioral therapies, managing aggressive behavior, and more), hospital-based and community-based care, and treatment of special populations.