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Offers an introduction to the main issues and themes in mental health nursing. This book includes chapters on: social inclusion and the Ten Essential Shared Capabilities; mental health promotion; mental health at different stages of the life course; physical health issues in mental health settings; and, mental health law.

Incorporates changes to the UK policy context of mental health nursing, the legal framework of mental health care and the 2006 Chief Nursing Officer's Review of Mental Health Nursing, From Values to Action . This title emphasises the importance of understanding lifestyle interventions to promote mental health.

A comprehensive guide to the care of patients in the mental health setting. Giving a picture of the role of the mental health nurse, this handbook gives a summary of the prevalence, features and nursing management of the major mental disorders.

Covers seventy specific disorders and includes an overview of mental health nursing. This book includes numerous icons that provide tips on patient care, research, cultural considerations, and the news in psychopharmacology. It provides descriptions of the mental health nurse's scope of practice, areas of concern, and the nursing process.

Helps you to identify the skills and resources that students already have and shows how these can be developed into the essential skills needed for nursing in the mental health practice environment. This book draws on the policy and theory underpinning mental health nursing, focusing on the practical aspects.

Drawing from the classification of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-IV-TR) and the list of NANDA-approved nursing diagnoses, this text covers a range of disorders, their psychopathology, and appropriate nursing interventions with rationales. It includes many therapeutic and nontherapeutic dialogue examples.

Explores the role and actions of mental health professionals as part of the process of recovery. This book focuses on ways in which direct care staff can assist people with mental health problems. It addresses two key components of recovery access and inclusion to life opportunities and acceptance.

The assessment of mental health problems is vital to the successful planning and treatment for people suffering from them. This unique book provides a step-by-step giude to conducting this assessment, giving student nurses a humanistic perspective on the subject. This best-seller, written by one of the most experienced authors in this field has been updated to reflect new concepts and ideas.

Considers the emotional and relational component of forensic mental health nursing. This book covers a number of specialist forensic areas from a psychodynamic perspective, such as women's services, services for people with personality disorders, intensive care, and high security psychiatric hospitals.

Includes the information needed to confidently pass the psychiatric and mental health nursing certification exam. This title provides causes, signs and symptoms, nursing diagnoses, and nursing interventions for every psychiatric disorder. It contains quick-reference charts, appendices, selected references.

Provides a fun way for students to prepare for NCLEX and other tough exams, this CD-ROM offers practicing nurses a review for professional certification. It includes more than 1,000 multiple-choice questions that cover the fundamentals of psychiatric care; schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders; mood, anxiety, personality, and, eating.

Contains 52 nursing care plans that address the most commonly encountered behaviors in psychiatric-mental health nursing. This book focuses on interdisciplinary care, community resources, communication, and assessment.

Packed with information on more than 70 psychiatric disorders. This reference is organized by disorders and includes an overview of psychiatric nursing. Numerous icons provide the reader with tips on caring for psychiatric patients, the research, cultural considerations, and the news in psychopharmacology.

Gives a review suitable for psychiatric-mental health nursing courses from the LPN through the BSN level. This title presents a visual two-column format. It also includes a CD-ROM containing hundreds of NCLEX[registered]-style questions, including alternate-format questions, along with answers and rationales.

Introduces the reader to the different types of nurse prescribing and how they can be used in practice. This handbook explores the different types of medicines commonly prescribed for major disease groups and helps nurse prescribers to understand the practical application of prescribing as seen in clinical practice.

A guide to drug dosages, assessment tools, care plans, and other clinical information in psychiatric health care. It provides a quick-reference approach to need-to-know, critical information for clinical practice. It features full-color design that enables readers to access the information they need in various settings.

This text explores the current and emerging interventions in forensic nursing and the care of the mentally-disordered offender, with an emphasis on clinical practice and competence. It explores the practical issues facing nurses and intervention strategies that can be used.

This is a case-based, service user centred textbook for mental health nursing students to use throughout their pre-registration studies. The essential theory required for nursing care is explored alongside real service users' views and fictional cases providing excellent transferable skills for practice.