Nick Wrycraft

Introduction to Mental Health Nursing

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This engaging new textbook provides a student focused introduction to the main issues and themes in mental health nursing. The book requires no previous knowledge and the content has been carefully chosen to reflect the most significant aspects of this important and rewarding area of nursing.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Open University Press
• UK ed.
• Seitenzahl: 368
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. August 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 245mm x 189mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 534g
• ISBN-13: 9780335233588
• ISBN-10: 0335233589
• Artikelnr.: 26200096

Autorenporträt

Nick Wrycraft is Senior Lecturer in the Mental Heath and Learning Disabilities Department at Anglia Ruskin University, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

The Editor and contributors
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Section 1 Essential Information
1. Learning on practice placements
2. Background to mental health nurse training
3. Mental health and recognition of mental illness
4. Risk Assessment: practicing accountably and responsibly
5. Mental Health Nursing and the Law
6. Mental health promotion
Section 2 Mental health and illness over the lifespan
7. Child and adolescent mental health
8. Mental health services in the community
9. Secure inpatient and forensic mental health care for adults
10. The mental health of older adults
Section 3 Therapeutic and theoretical perspectives
11. Physical health issues in mental health practice
12.Cognitive behaviour therapy
13. Psychodynamic and psychoanalytic therapeutic interventions
14.Recovery
15 Social inclusion
Conclusion
Answers
Glossary
Index