Caring for Adults with Mental Health Problems (eBook)
John Wiley & Sons (Verlag)
978-0-470-05780-3 (ISBN)
Reference to care in a range of primary and secondary care settings is made throughout the book. Each chapter provides the reader with a clear and concise approach to health care, encouraging the reader to understand and delve deeper. Written by contributors who are experienced clinicians and academics with many years of clinical and academic experience in various health care settings, this text is based upon the principles of care, a foundation text that encourages the student to grow and develop.
Caring for Adults with Mental Health Problems is a practice-based handbook or manual that has a sound evidence basis, and one that will challenge and encourage the student to develop a questioning approach to care. The text is designed to be used as a reference book by a variety of readers in either the clinical setting, classroom or at home, in statutory or non-statutory surroundings.
Ian Peate, Associate Head of School
EN (G) RGN DipN (Lond) RNT BEd (Hons) MA (Lond) LLM
Ian began his nursing career in 1981 at Central Middlesex Hospital, becoming an Enrolled Nurse working in an intensive care unit. He later undertook three years' student nurse training at Central Middlesex and Northwick Park Hospitals, becoming a Staff Nurse then a Charge Nurse. He has worked in nurse education since 1989. His key areas of interest are nursing practice and theory, sexual health and HIV/AIDS. He is currently Associate Head of School. His portfolio centres on recruitment and marketing and professional academic development within the School of Nursing and Midwifery.
Sonya Chelvanayagam, Senior Lecturer in Mental Health
MSc PgDip (Learning and Teaching) RN
Sonya qualified as a Mental Health Nurse in 1985. She then trained as a Registered General Nurse. Sonya has worked in a range of different settings caring for individuals with a combination of physical symptoms and mental health problems. Most notably, she developed a mental health nurse service within a specialist mental health team for people attending HIV/GUM services. Sonya works as a Senior Lecturer in mental health at the University of Hertfordshire and as a Lecturer in the Burdett Institute of Gastrointestinal Nursing, King's College London.
Mental health care provision can be complex and the approach the carer uses can have a detrimental effect on the health of the person being cared for. Caring for Adults with Mental Health Problems provides the reader with many examples of thoughts, ideas and perspectives in a user-friendly, easily accessible format. The chapters are divided into discrete sections reflecting contemporary care approaches. Reference to care in a range of primary and secondary care settings is made throughout the book. Each chapter provides the reader with a clear and concise approach to health care, encouraging the reader to understand and delve deeper. Written by contributors who are experienced clinicians and academics with many years of clinical and academic experience in various health care settings, this text is based upon the principles of care, a foundation text that encourages the student to grow and develop. Caring for Adults with Mental Health Problems is a practice-based handbook or manual that has a sound evidence basis, and one that will challenge and encourage the student to develop a questioning approach to care. The text is designed to be used as a reference book by a variety of readers in either the clinical setting, classroom or at home, in statutory or non-statutory surroundings.
Ian Peate, Associate Head of School EN (G) RGN DipN (Lond) RNT BEd (Hons) MA (Lond) LLM Ian began his nursing career in 1981 at Central Middlesex Hospital, becoming an Enrolled Nurse working in an intensive care unit. He later undertook three years' student nurse training at Central Middlesex and Northwick Park Hospitals, becoming a Staff Nurse then a Charge Nurse. He has worked in nurse education since 1989. His key areas of interest are nursing practice and theory, sexual health and HIV/AIDS. He is currently Associate Head of School. His portfolio centres on recruitment and marketing and professional academic development within the School of Nursing and Midwifery. Sonya Chelvanayagam, Senior Lecturer in Mental Health MSc PgDip (Learning and Teaching) RN Sonya qualified as a Mental Health Nurse in 1985. She then trained as a Registered General Nurse. Sonya has worked in a range of different settings caring for individuals with a combination of physical symptoms and mental health problems. Most notably, she developed a mental health nurse service within a specialist mental health team for people attending HIV/GUM services. Sonya works as a Senior Lecturer in mental health at the University of Hertfordshire and as a Lecturer in the Burdett Institute of Gastrointestinal Nursing, King's College London.
Caring for Adults with Mental Health Problems 3
Contents 7
Contributors 9
Acknowledgements 13
1 Introduction 15
2 History of Mental Health Care 21
3 Mad, Bad or Just Different 29
4 Partnership Working in Mental Health Care 45
5 Promoting Mental Health 67
6 Legal Matters 83
7 Anxiety Disorders 101
8 Mood Disorders Including Self-harm and Suicide 117
9 Eating Disorders 131
10 Dual Diagnosis: Substance Misuse and Mental Health Problems 145
11 Schizophrenia and Schizophrenia-type Disorders 159
12 Personality Disorder 175
13 Dementias 191
14 Therapeutic Interventions 209
Index 231
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 11.1.2007 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Wiley Series in Nursing | Wiley Series in Nursing |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Themenwelt | Medizin / Pharmazie ► Gesundheitswesen |
| Medizin / Pharmazie ► Pflege ► Ausbildung / Prüfung | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Sozialpädagogik | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
| Schlagworte | accessible • adults • Care • care approaches • carer • Caring • Chapters • Contemporary • detrimental • discrete sections • effect • Examples • Health • Krankenpflege • many • Mental • nursing • Pflege • Problems • Provision • Range • Reader • Reference • Secondary • thoughts • userfriendly • uses |
| ISBN-10 | 0-470-05780-7 / 0470057807 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-470-05780-3 / 9780470057803 |
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