Foundations of Mental Health Care

by Michelle Morrison-Valfre RN, BSN, MHS, FNP

Overview

The new edition of this comprehensive text provides an historical overview of mental health care, theoretical foundations, information on therapeutic skills, problems throughout the life cycle, and psychological and psychosocial problems. FOUNDATIONS OF MENTAL HEALTH CARE includes content on the care and treatment of common to serious mental health problems, as well as discussions of the ethical, legal, social, and cultural issues that influence mental health care.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780323810296
Publisher:	Elsevier Health Sciences
Publication date:	09/26/2022
Edition description:	8th ed.
Pages:	456
Product dimensions:	8.50(w) x 10.88(h) x (d)

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Table of Contents

Unit 1. Mental Health: Past and Present

1. The History of Mental Health Care

2. Current Mental Health Care Systems

3. Ethical and Legal Issues

4. Sociocultural Issues

5. Theories and Therapies

6. Psychotherapeutic Drug Therapy


Unit 2. The Caregiver’s Therapeutic Skills

7. Skills and Principles of Mental Health Care

8. Mental Health Assessment Skills

9. Therapeutic Communication

10. The Therapeutic Relationship

11. The Therapeutic Environment


Unit 3. Mental Health Problems Throughout the Life Cycle

12. Problems of Childhood

13. Problems of Adolescence

14. Problems of Adulthood

15. Problems of Late Adulthood

16. Cognitive Impairment, Alzheimer’s, and Dementia


Unit 4. Clients with Psychological Problems

17. Managing Anxiety

18. Illness and Hospitalization

19. Loss and Grief

20. Depression and Other Mood Disorders

21. Physical Problems, Psychological Sources

22. Eating and Sleeping Disorders

23. Dissociative Disorders


Unit 5. Clients with Psychosocial Problems

24. Anger and Aggression

25. Outward-Focused Emotions: Violence
26. Inward-Focused Emotions: Suicide

27. Substance-Related Disorders

28. Sexual Disorders

29. Personality Disorders

30. Schizophrenia and Other Psychoses

31. Chronic Mental Health Disorders

32. Challenges for the Future


Appendices

References and Further Readings

Legend credits

Glossary

Review Worksheets (perforated)

Index

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