This text is the ideal companion to any psychiatric mental health nursing textbook. It provides full length case scenarios for clients who need both psychiatric mental health care and medical care. The scenarios include critical thinking, psychosocial interventions, and complementary alternative treatments as well as traditional treatment modalities such as medications, psychotherapy, and laboratory/diagnostic testing. Appropriate for ADN and BSN-level nursing students, the text includes key terms, overviews of each psychiatric disorder, use of the DSM-IV-TR diagnosis system, and a glossary of terms. Each case scenario is followed by pointed questions for the clinician or student to answer.
Accompanied by a companion CD-Rom of blank plans and care plans
