Nurse's Clinical Guide: Psychiatric and Mental Health Care

This updated guide to mental health nursing now includes new material, such as the biological bases for illnesses and thought field therapy; screening tools; voluntary and involuntary commitment information; helpful Web sites; and an attractive new design. Contents include therapeutic communication skills and treatment types, legal issues, disorders usually first evident by adolescence, delirium and other cognitive disorders, substance-related disorders, schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders, mood disorders, anxiety disorders, somatoform disorders, dissociative disorders, eating disorders, adjustment disorders, personality disorders, psychological factors affecting medical conditions, sleep disorders, homelessness and chronic mental illness, abuse, HIV/AIDS, references, and an index.