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Psychiatric nursing /

Keltner, Norman L.,author.

Psychiatric nursing / Norman L. Keltner, Lee Hilyard Schwecke, Carol E. Bostrom. - Third edition. - St. Louis : Mosby/Elsevier, ©2007. - xxiv, 756 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction to psychiatric nursing -- Psychotherapeutic management in the continuum of care -- Continuum of care -- Models for working with psychiatric patients -- Legal issues -- Psychobiologic bases of behavior -- Nurse-patient communication -- Nurse-patient relationship -- Nursing process -- Stress, anxiety, coping, and crisis -- Working with the aggressive patient -- Working with groups of patients -- Working with the family -- Cultural competence in psychiatric nursing -- Spirituality -- Introduction to psychotropic drugs -- Antiparkinsonian drugs -- Antipsychotic drugs -- Antidepressant drugs -- Antimanic drugs -- Antianxiety drugs -- Antidementia drugs -- Introduction to milieu management -- Variables affecting the therapeutic environment -- Therapeutic environment in various treatment settings -- Special environments: forensic psychiatric treatment settings -- Introduction to psychopathology -- Schizophrenia and other psychoses -- Depression -- Bipolar disorders -- Anxiety-related, somatoform, and dissociative disorders -- Cognitive disorders -- Personality disorders -- Sexual disorders -- Substance-related disorders -- Dual diagnosis -- Eating disorders -- Behavior therapies -- Somatic therapies -- Alternative and complementary therapies -- Survivors of violence and trauma -- Child and adolescent psychiatric nursing -- Mental disorders in older adults.

Accompanying CD-ROM contains extra learning activities, study tools, an audio glossary, interactive exercises, neurology review, and review questions.

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Psychiatric nursing.
Psychotherapy.
Nurse and patient.

DC 610.7368 / K29