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Psychiatric/Mental Health Nursing

An Irish Perspective

By Jean Morrissey, Brian Keogh and Louise Doyle

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Description

• Contributions from key psychiatric/mental health nursing academics, clinicians and experts

• Introduces and details the new Mental Health Act 2001 in Ireland

• Discusses all the main illnesses in a nursing care context, providing an overview of the treatments available, with an emphasis on the nursing care and management of these illnesses

• Includes a chapter on the physical assessment of clients with mental health problems, and a chapter on physical treatments and pharmacology

• Provides a detailed account of a number of contemporary issues impacting on the practice of psychiatric and mental health nursing; including service user involvement, sexuality and mental health, clinical supervision, liaison psychiatric nursing and transcultural mental health nursing

• Uses scenarios and reflective questions at the end of each chapter to facilitate student learning and revision

• Suitable as a core text for all students of mental health nursing across all years and has relevance for post-graduate mental health nursing students

• This book is also suitable as a resource for practising clinicians

Author Biography

Jean Morrissey, Brian Keogh, Louise Doyle are lecturers in Mental Health Nursing at the School of Nursing and Midwifery, The University of Dublin, Trinity College.

Table of Contents

Section 1: Foundations of Psychiatric/Mental Health Nursing
Chapter 1: Psychiatric Nursing Practice – A Historical Overview
Chapter 2: Concepts of Psychiatric/Mental Health Nursing
Chapter 3: Mental Health Act 2001
Chapter 4: Professional and Ethical Challenges in Mental Health Nursing
Chapter 5: Care planning: Assessment, models of care/care frameworks
Chapter 6: Mental Health and Mental Health Promotion
Chapter 7: Community Care and Rehabilitation
Section 2: Therapeutic Modalities in Psychiatric/Mental Health Nursing
Chapter 8: Therapeutic Communication and Mental Health
Chapter 9: An Overview of Psychotherapeutic approaches
Chapter 10: Psychosocial Interventions
Chapter 11: Treatment Modalities in Psychiatric Nursing Practice
Section 3: Clinical Application to Practice
Chapter 12: Care of the Person with a Mood Disorder
Chapter 13: Care of the Person with a Perceptual Disorder
Chapter 14: Care of the Person with an Anxiety Disorder
Chapter 15: Care of the Person with Suicidal Behaviour
Chapter 16: Explaining and treating Personality Disorders
Chapter 17: Childhood and Adolescent mental health problems
Chapter 18: Caring for the Older Person with Dementia
Chapter 19: Working with Addiction problems
Chapter 20: Aggression and violence in mental health/psychiatric services
Chapter 21: Dual Diagnosis
Chapter 22: Physical Health and Mental Health Nursing
Section 4: Contemporary Issues and Challenges in Psychiatric/Mental
Health Nursing
Chapter 23: Helping People make a Recovery in the Community
Chapter 24: Sexuality and Mental Health
Chapter 25: Clinical Supervision and Mental Health Nursing
Chapter 26: Mental Health Nursing in an Ethnically Diverse Society
Chapter 27: Psychiatric Consultation Liaison Nursing

Publication Details
Format	Paperback, 445 pages
ISBN	9780717144594
Imprint	Gill & Macmillan
Language	English
Product Dimensions	235 x 156
Publication Date	March 2008

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