Mental Health & Psychiatric Nursing, 3/Ed.

A very well organised text on psychiatry nursing, written in a clear and lucid language. This text provides nurses with the foundations of the subject including subject overview, conceptual models of psychiatric care, treatment modalities and roles of the psychiatric nurse, stress and psychophysiologic disorders, anxiety and related behavioural disorders, mood disorders, suicide, schizophrenic disorders, personality disorders and psychoactive substance abuse, disorders, associated with anger and violence, childhood and adolescent disorders, cognitive impairment disorders and much more. This psychiatric mental health nursing textbook is planned for the program that teaches an incorporated psychiatric mental health course. The book is planned to help students achieve an understanding of this subject in the context of its relevance to nursing practice.