Main description:

Mental Health Nursing is written especially for the general nursing student, and provides a comprehensive coverage of all the relevant dimensions of practice for nursing in mental health. The text is rich in nursing practice examples, fictional cases from which nursing skills are observed, and is written to be engaging and accessible for undergraduate students. The book follows an evidence-based practice model and shows how to apply assessment processes to treatment practice, work with clients with a range of disorders, and apply nursing intervention strategies in order to achieve best practice outcomes.

Contents:

PART 1: CONTEXTS OF CONTEMPORARY PRACTICE ; 1. History of Mental Illness and Mental Health ; 2. Assessment, Risk and Triage ; 3. Promoting Mental Health ; 4. Resilience, Recovery, Reconnection and Therapeutic Optimism ; 5. Law, Ethics and Mental Health Nursing ; 6. Evidence-Based Practice in Mental Health ; PART 2: CHALLENGES TO PEOPLE'S MENTAL HEALTH ; 7. Child and Adolescent Mental Health ; 8. Mood and Anxiety Disorders ; 9. Major Mental Illnesses: Psychosis and Psychotic Disorders ; 10. Major Mental Illnesses: Borderline personality disorder ; 11. Alcohol, Tobacco and Other Drugs ; PART 3: PRAXIS OF MENTAL HEALTH NURSING ; 12. The Older Adult and Mental Illness ; 13. Psychopharmacology ; 14. Consumer and Carer Participation ; 15. Case Management and Community Care ; 16. Implications of mental illness in general health ; 17. Consultation-Liaison ; 18. Complementary Nursing Care ; PART 4: SUSTAINING THE WORKFORCE ; 19. Indigenous and Remote Mental Health Nursing ; 20. Cultural Issues in Mental Health ; 21. Forensic Mental Health Nursing ; 22. Talking Women's Mental Health ; PART 5: ADVANCING THE MENTAL HEALTH PROFESSION ; 23. Nurses health/supervision ; 24. Advanced Practice in Mental Health Nursing ; 25. Future directions in Mental Health Nursing