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This is the first reference on advanced nursing practices at the clinical specialist level. Reflecting a nursing perspective, it covers both adult and child psychiatric nursing treatments and discusses individual and group therapy of children, adolescents and adults. It examines legal and ethical issues related to advanced practice and the relationship of neurophysiology and psychopharmacology to the clinical specialist role. The book also includes case studies and up-to- date reviews of current research, theories and clinical practices in the field.
First multi-year cumulation covers six years: 1965-70.
Addressing contemporary mental health issues facing psychiatric nursing today, as well as traditional clinical skills, this reference work links stress, trauma, and behavioural health problems to neurobiological function and immune system depletion. This framework pinpoints assessment and selection of intervention strategies especially useful in this era of managed care, focused care, and time-limited treatment. The book describes the biology of mental illness and psychopharmacological interventions, provides a DSM-IV diagnosis and a psychiatric nursing diagnosis to a patient condition within the context of the nursing care plan, and clearly demonstrates how nurses integrate neurobiological, behavioural, and social science theories and research into patient care.
Chapters in this work describe and analyze homelessness in 15 states, from all geographic regions of the US. The diversity of survey locations reveals a variety of forces contributing to homelessness. There are frequent efforts to situate the problem within the sociopolitical context of the 1980s. An occasional chapter contains rich theoretical commentary. . . . the scope of the findings is compelling and the contradiction of stereotypes is effective. Choice This volume reads and holds together well even though each of the 14 chapters was written by a different individual or group, covers a different section of the country, uses different types of data sources and analytical methods, and evi...
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