Mental Health Nursing » (2nd Edition)

Mary Ann Hogan, MSN, RN has been a nurse educator for 25 years, currently as a Clinical

Associate Professor at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. She has taught in

diploma, associate degree, and baccalaureate nursing programs.A former item writer for

the CAT NCLEX-RN® exam,Ms. Hogan has been teaching review courses throughout

New England for the last 15 years. She also has contributed to a number of publications

in the areas of adult health, pharmacology, and fundamentals of nursing. She is a member

of the American Nurses Association and Sigma Theta Tau, the International Honor

Society for Nursing.

Essential for course review and NCLEX review, this resource is a complete, concentrated outline of mental-health nursing. Content includes all of the "need-to-know" information covering therapeutic communication, developmental disorders, mood disorders, anxiety disorders, somatoform disorders, dissociative disorders, personality disorders, schizophrenia and psychotic disorders, cognitive mental disorders, substance abuse, crisis intervention and suicide, death and dying, and much more.

1. Overview of Psychiatric-Mental Health Nursing

2. Crisis Intervention and Suicide

3. Infancy, Childhood, Adolescence, and Developmental Disabilitiess

4. Mood Disorders

5. Anxiety Disorders

6. Somatoform Disorders

7. Dissociative Disorders

8. Personality Disorders

9. Schizophrenia and Other Psychotic Disorders

10. Delirium, Dementia, and Other Cognitive Mental Disorders

11. Substance Use Disorders

12. Family Violence and Sexual Assault ***NEW CHAPTER***

13. Loss, Grief, and Death

14. Psychological Adaptation to Mental Illness

Appendix: Answers to Practice to Pass & Case Studies

Index