Psychiatric/Mental Health Nursing: Concepts of Care - Hardcover

A comprehensive, up-to-date textbook for nursing students and clinical nurses, based on the conceptual framework of stress-adaptation, and consisting of four major units: basic concepts in psychiatric/mental health nursing, therapeutic approaches in psychiatric care, nursing care of patients with alterations in psychosocial adaptation, and special topics. The focus is on holistic nursing, and because psychiatric/mental health nursing is applicable to every nurse's individual practice, the concepts discussed in the text may be utilized in all clinical nursing settings. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.