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Geropsychiatric and Mental Health Nursing
Karen Devereaux Melillo, PhD, GNP, ANP, BC, FAANP, FGSA, Professor and Chair, Department of Nursing, School of Health adn Environment, University of Massachusetts, Lowell, Lowell, Massachusetts, Susan Crocker Houde, PhD, ANP, BC, Professor/ Director of the Master's & DNP Programs, Department of Nursing, University of Massachusetts, Lowell, Lowell, Massachusetts
ISBN-13: 9780763732721
ISBN-10: 0763732729
$81.95 (Sugg. US List)
Paperback
416 Pages
© 2005
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Section I overviews Aging and Mental Health Issues, including geropsychiatric and mental health nursing as a subspecialty, comprehensive mental health assessment, ethnic elders, mental health promotion, and geropsychopharmacology
Section II extensively describes various Psychopathologies of Late Life, including nursing assessment and treatment of depressive disorders, anxiety, psychoses, substance abuse, delirium, and dementia
Section III, includes issues in geropsychiatric and mental health of older adults: family caregiving, sleep disorders, pathological gambling, elder mistreatment, care of clients and their families at end-of-life, as well as social, health, and long-term care programs and policies, and a look at the future of geropsychiatric and mental health nursing
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