Dementia presents challenges to all those working in health and social care. It affects each person in a unique way. The challenge to professionals is to respond to this uniqueness by providing support that is effective and individualized. This book explores the key issues relevant to dementia care practice.

Reflects Canadian practice and intends to meet the needs of Canadian baccalaureate nursing students. Based on the biological-psychological-sociological aspects of mental illness, this text is suitable for nurses seeking an understanding of psychiatric disorders and nursing practice.

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.

Helps develops the reader's understanding of a range of evidence-based therapeutic techniques used in mental health nursing in order to enhance the reader's ability to translate theory into his or her practice. This title also discusses the issues surrounding mental health nursing, including multidisciplinary group working and quality control.

A review of mental health and psychiatric nursing for undergraduate nursing students. This book is suited for course and subject review and for NCLEX[registered] preparation. It contains chapters including NCLEX[registered]-style questions, and a test and answer key appearing at the end of the book.

Offers a practical presentation of psychiatric nursing which emphasizes clinical situations. Explores mental healthcare settings, understanding the patient's diagnosis, therapeutic treatment activities and therapeutic approaches to specific populations. Multiple choice and true/false tests begin and end each of the 23 chapters. Diagnostic

Aims to answer questions, such as: what is mental health? What are mental health problems? What causes them? And more. This book introduces the key issues and concerns that surround mental health in people with learning disabilities. It is useful for nurses, social workers, and others involved in the care of people with learning disabilities.

Psychiatric nursing is invariably linked with a therapeutic role; however the question remains unanswered in relation to the extent psychiatric nurses perceive the importance of the constituents of the therapeutic relationship. This book intends to ascertain the nature and comprehension psychiatric nurses assign this therapeutic role.

Presents nursing theory, therapeutic modalities, and clinical applications for the DSM-IV-TR disorders across the treatment continuum, from hospital to home setting. This work includes a CD-ROM and a companion Website that offer numerous student and instructor resources, including Clinical Simulations, and psychotropic drug monographs.

Nursing research has focused on evaluating the effectiveness of clinical supervision, but there remains uncertainty as to what facets of clinical supervision are potent in realising effectiveness. This book reports on an investigation on the practice of clinical supervision in mental health nursing.

Presenting the fundamentals of psychiatric nursing, this guide includes content on the bereaved individual, dementia, disaster nursing, and suicide, as well as psychosocial therapies. It provides information on psychotropic medications. It also incudes appendices with DSM-IV-TR classifications, NANDA diagnoses and behaviors, and critical pathways.

This text reviews major models of body image, examines appropriate empirical studies and applies findings from mental health care to body image disturbance. It provides recommendations for the appropriate care of patients.

This CD-ROM presents interactive case studies on common affective disorders: dysthymic disorder; bipolar disorder in the acutely manic phase; major depressive disorder and the client who is acutely suicidal.

Mental health policy has focused on developing community-based services, while the reality remains that patients experiencing acute episodes of illness are mainly cared for in hospital. This is a guide to the knowledge and skills required for working in inpatient settings. It addresses issues which are specific to working in inpatient settings.

Using a skills based approach, this unique text gives a comprehensive overview of the role of the Mental Health nurse. Addressing themany demands on the Mental Health nurse, the authors recognise the increasing need to work as part of a multidisciplinary team.

Presents interactive case studies from real-life clinical practice on psychiatric disorders that often pose unique nursing management challenges: paranoid schizophrenia in the acutely psychotic phase; acute withdrawal from alcohol dependence; borderline personality disorder; and anorexia nervosa.

Includes recent developments in the care planning process, such as CPA and care management. Offers a framework of planning care in most areas of mental health nursing.

Focusing on care for people with dementia, this book also addresses some of the most pressing concerns of families by promoting practices and services that recognise the full humanity of their relative with dementia. It offers insights about how to provide care for people with Alzheimer's Disease and other dementias.

This useful text for mental health nursing students, practitioners and educators explores the underlying biology associated with the pathology of mental health disorders and the related nervous system. It integrates related pharmacological and genetic knowledge.