This a pocket-sized resource for helping psychiatric nurses develop practical, individualized care plans for their patients. Each chapter covers a different DSM-IV disorder, giving an overview and then a nursing diagnosis includes new information on anxiety agents, antidepressants, and other psychotropic medications.

This book has four units and 30 chapters as followed here:

Unit 1: The Foundation for Planning Psychiatric Nursing Care

• Nursing process: one step to professionlism

Unit 2: Alterations in Psychosocial Adaptation

• Disorders usually first diagnosed in infancy, childhood, or adolescence
• Delirium, dementia, and amnestic disorder
• Substance-related disorders
• Schizophrenia and other psychotic disorder
• Mood Disorder
• Anxiety disorders
• Somatoform and sleep disorders
• Dissociative disorders
• Sexual and gender identity disorders
• Eating disorders
• Adjustment disorders
• Impulse control disorders
• Psychological factors affecting medical condition
• Personality disorders

Unit 3: Special Topics In Psychiatric/Mental Health Nursing

• Special topics in psychiatric/mental health nursing
• Problems related to abuse or neglect
• Premenstrual dysphoric disorders
• HIV disease
• Homelessness
• Psychiatric home nursing care
• Forensic nursing
• Complementary therapies
• Loss and bereavement

Unit 4: Psychotropic Medications

• Antianxiety agents
• Antidepressants
• Mood-stabilizing drugs
• Antipsychotic agents
• Antiparkinsonian agents
• Sedative-hypnotics
• Agents used to treat attention deficit hyperactivity disorder

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