
Essentials of Psychiatry and Mental Health Nursing I and II_2e
- 2nd Edition - September 14, 2023
- Imprint: Elsevier India
- Author: Rajesh Kumar
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 8 1 - 3 1 2 - 6 8 2 8 - 5
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 8 1 - 3 1 2 - 6 8 2 9 - 2
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Request a sales quoteEssentials of Psychiatry and Mental Health Nursing I & II is precisely written comprehensive textbook as per revised Indian Nursing Council (INC) syllabus for Undergraduate Nursing students. It also serves a useful reference text for general nursing and midwifery students, postgraduate nursing students and other health professionals. This book is an effort to outline common psychiatric conditions and procedures practiced in clinical situation.
Salient Features
• Simple and Friendly Content: This edition includes information on different psychiatric disorders, clinical manifestations and diagnostic approaches in simple and friendly manner incorporating their application to clinical practice
• Comprehensive Presentation: The illustrative and lucid text is organized in step-by-step manner to hold the attention of students and enhance learning
• Clinical Examples: The book contains examples from routine clinical scenarios, making it more attention-grabbing to read and understand to students
• Multiple Choice Questions (MCQs): A set of approximately 225 multiple-choice questions included, placed at the end of each chapter. These MCQs will be helpful in preparing for final exam and for entrance examinations, especially, MSc N, and Ph D nursing programs
• Nursing Care Plan: Common and major psychiatric disorders are supplemented with nursing care plans. It can be beneficial and used as ready reference templates by nursing students to plan and write nursing care plan in clinical setting
New to this Edition
• OSCE for practical exams to helps prepare for practical exams during final exams
• Mental health assessment tools to make the screening and assessment of common psychiatric conditions easier for the students
• Nursing procedures to make the text more applied and clinical oriented
• Elective modules as per the revised syllabus prescribed by the Indian Nursing Council for undergraduate nursing students
• Updated text, latest and concise information on revised content of the syllabus in psychiatry nursing
• Online ancillaries of important topics provided
• Revised and updated box, tables, figures for more interesting and joyful teaching-learning
• Simple and Friendly Content: This edition includes information on different psychiatric disorders, clinical manifestations and diagnostic approaches in simple and friendly manner incorporating their application to clinical practice
• Comprehensive Presentation: The illustrative and lucid text is organized in step-by-step manner to hold the attention of students and enhance learning
• Clinical Examples: The book contains examples from routine clinical scenarios, making it more attention-grabbing to read and understand to students
• Multiple Choice Questions (MCQs): A set of approximately 225 multiple-choice questions included, placed at the end of each chapter. These MCQs will be helpful in preparing for final exam and for entrance examinations, especially, MSc N, and Ph D nursing programs
• Nursing Care Plan: Common and major psychiatric disorders are supplemented with nursing care plans. It can be beneficial and used as ready reference templates by nursing students to plan and write nursing care plan in clinical setting
New to this Edition
• OSCE for practical exams to helps prepare for practical exams during final exams
• Mental health assessment tools to make the screening and assessment of common psychiatric conditions easier for the students
• Nursing procedures to make the text more applied and clinical oriented
• Elective modules as per the revised syllabus prescribed by the Indian Nursing Council for undergraduate nursing students
• Updated text, latest and concise information on revised content of the syllabus in psychiatry nursing
• Online ancillaries of important topics provided
• Revised and updated box, tables, figures for more interesting and joyful teaching-learning
- Cover image
- Title page
- Disclaimer
- Table of Contents
- Copyright
- Contributors
- Preface to the second edition
- Preface to the first edition
- Syllabus mapper
- List of Tables
- List of Illustrations
- PART I. Mental Health Nursing I (Sem V)
- 1. Mental health and mental health nursing
- Mental health
- Mental health and mental illness continuum
- Evolution of mental health services, treatment and nursing practice
- Development of contemporary psychiatric nursing
- Mental health team
- Scope of mental health nursing
- Role of a psychiatric (mental health) nurse
- Concept of normal and abnormal behaviours
- Review questions
- Suggested reading
- 2. Concept and principles of mental health nursing
- Introduction
- Aetiology of mental illness
- Symptoms of mental illness
- Psychopathology of mental disorders
- Review of the nervous system
- Principles of mental health nursing
- Standard of mental health nursing
- Conceptual models
- Review questions
- Suggested reading
- 3. Mental health assessment
- Introduction
- Nursing process
- Competency assessment in an elderly person
- Role of nurse in psychiatric assessment
- Review questions
- Suggested reading
- 4. Therapeutic communication and nurse–patient relationship
- Introduction
- Types of communication
- Therapeutic communication
- Techniques of communication
- Process of communication
- Stages of therapeutic relationship
- Traits of a therapeutic relationship
- Essentials for an effective therapeutic relationship
- Therapeutic impasse
- Review questions
- Suggested reading
- 5. Treatment modalities and therapies in psychiatry
- Introduction
- Psychopharmacology
- Milieu therapy/therapeutic community
- Somatic therapies
- Occupational therapy
- Psychoanalytic therapies
- Complementary and alternative medicine
- Review questions
- Suggested reading
- 6. Schizophrenia and psychotic disorders
- Introduction
- Schizophrenia
- Other psychotic disorders
- Nursing management
- Evaluation
- Rehabilitation
- Geriatric consideration
- Review questions
- Suggested reading
- 7. Mood disorders (depression and mania)
- Introduction
- Mania
- Depression
- Geriatric consideration
- Rehabilitation
- Review questions
- Suggested reading
- 8. Neurotic, stress-related and somatization disorders
- Introduction
- Phobic anxiety disorder
- Phobias
- Panic anxiety disorder
- Generalized anxiety disorder
- Obsessive-compulsive disorder
- Reaction to stress and adjustment disorder
- Dissociative (conversion) disorders (Box 8.7)
- Somatoform disorder
- Stress and coping strategies
- Grief and grieving process
- Geriatric consideration and follow-up
- Review questions
- Suggested reading
- PART II. Mental Health Nursing II (Sem VI)
- 9. Substance use disorders
- Introduction
- Substance abuse
- Nicotine use disorder
- Alcohol dependence syndrome
- Other common substance use disorders
- Motivational and brief interview in substance use disorders
- Brief intervention
- Nursing management of substance use disorders
- Prevention of substance use disorder
- The Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985
- Rehabilitation
- Recent developments in deaddiction services in India
- Geriatric considerations
- Follow-up and home care
- Review questions
- Suggested reading
- 10. Personality, sexual and eating disorders
- Introduction
- Personality disorders
- Sexual disorders
- Sexual arousal disorders
- Orgasmic disorders
- Sexual pain disorders
- Eating disorders (Box 10.3)
- Psychophysiological (psychosomatic) disorders
- Sleep disorders
- Review questions
- Suggested reading
- 11. Childhood and adolescence disorders, including mental deficiency
- Introduction
- Mental retardation (mental deficiency)
- Disorders of psychological development
- Behavioural and emotional disorders with onset usually occurring in childhood and adolescence
- Oppositional defiant disorders
- Tic disorders
- Non-organic encopresis
- Non-organic enuresis
- Feeding disorders of infancy and childhood
- Rumination disorder
- Stereotyped movement disorders
- Stuttering (stammering)
- Review questions
- Suggested reading
- 12. Organic brain disorders
- Introduction
- Dementia
- Delirium (acute confusional state)
- Organic amnesic syndrome
- Other organic mental disorders
- Geriatric consideration
- Rehabilitation
- Follow-up and home care
- Review questions
- Suggested reading
- 13. Psychiatric emergencies and crisis intervention
- Introduction
- Crisis
- Crisis intervention
- Review questions
- Suggested reading
- 14. Legal issues in mental health nursing
- Introduction
- Laws and acts in psychiatry
- Mental health act, 1987
- Forensic psychiatry
- Civil responsibilities of a mentally ill person
- Human rights of mentally ill patients
- Legal liability in psychiatric nursing
- Review questions
- Suggested reading
- 15. Community mental health nursing
- Introduction
- Institutionalization versus deinstitutionalization
- Prevention in psychiatry
- Psychiatric rehabilitation
- Mental health care services in India
- Community services for the psychiatric population
- Government mental health agencies
- International mental health agencies
- Activities of mental health non-governmental organizations
- Misconceptions about mental illness
- Mental health issues for vulnerable populations
- Review questions
- Suggested reading
- Appendix 1. Elective modules
- Appendix 2. Appendix of edition 1
- Appendix 3. Objective structured clinical examination (OSCE) for skill stations
- Appendix 4. Mental health assessment tools
- Index
- Edition: 2
- Published: September 14, 2023
- Imprint: Elsevier India
- No. of pages: 516
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN: 9788131268285
- eBook ISBN: 9788131268292