| Description |
xxiv, 943 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm |
| Contents |
Framework for mental health nursing practice -- Historical overview of psychiatric nursing -- Power, politics, and psychiatric nursing -- The sociocultural context of behavior -- The family -- Human development -- Human sexuality -- Stress and anxiety -- Commonly encountered stressors -- Basic concepts of communication -- Therapeutic communication and the nursing process -- The therapeutic milieu -- Group therapy -- Family dysfunction and family therapy -- Crisis intervention -- Community mental health -- Patterns of conflict and stress in childhood and adolescence -- Patterms of conflict and stress in the elderly -- Patterns of psychophysiological responses -- Patterns of substance and practice abuse -- Patterns of human abuse -- Patterns of depression -- Patterns of complusivity, somatization, and altered identity -- Patterms of emotional turbulence and primitive defenses -- Patterms of withdrawal and distorted perceptions -- Patterns of impaired brain function |
| Notes |
Rev. ed. of: Mental health nursing / Elaine Anne Pasquali ... [et al.]. 2nd ed. 1985 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographies and index |
| Subject |
Psychiatric nursing.
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Mental Health.
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Psychiatric Nursing.
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| Author |
Arnold, Helen Margaret.
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DeBasio, Nancy.
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| LC no. |
88031403 |
| ISBN |
0801635780 |
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