Mental Health Nursing
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- 1Mental Health, Mental Illness and StigmaThe continuum: mental health, mental illness and what sits between, Stigma: the second illness, From asylum to recovery: how this care got here
- 2The Therapeutic Relationship and CommunicationThe Nurse as the Instrument, What to Say, and Why It Works, Trauma-Informed Care, Culture and the Words We Use
- 3Legal and Ethical Issues in Mental Health CareEthical Foundations: Principles That Have to Live in a Real Room, Admission Status and the Rights That Travel With Every Patient, Confidentiality, HIPAA and the Duty to Protect
- 4Assessment: The Mental Status Exam and Risk ScreeningBefore the First Question: Safety, Setting and Trauma-Informed Interviewing, The Mental Status Examination, Component by Component, Around the Exam: History, Medical Mimics, Cognition and Culture
- 5Neurobiology and PsychopharmacologyThe Synapse, the Circuit and the Stress Axis, Antidepressants and the Long Fuse, Mood Stabilisers and Narrow Windows
- 6Anxiety, Obsessive-Compulsive and Trauma-Related DisordersAnxiety as a Signal: Neurobiology, Levels and the Line into Disorder, The Anxiety Disorders: Recognition, Screening and Nursing Care, Obsessive-Compulsive and Related Disorders
- 7Depressive and Bipolar DisordersThe Depressive Disorders: What You Are Actually Looking At, The Bipolar Spectrum: Mania, Hypomania and Mixed Features, Pharmacology by Mechanism — and the Four Emergencies
- 8Schizophrenia Spectrum and Other Psychotic DisordersWhat Psychosis Is, and What It Is Not, Assessment Before Intervention, Talking With a Person Who Is Psychotic
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- 9Substance Use and Addictive DisordersWhat Addiction Is: Neurobiology, Diagnosis and Language, Assessment: Screening, History and the Honest Conversation, Intoxication, Overdose and Withdrawal Emergencies
- 10Personality DisordersPersonality, and When a Pattern Becomes a Disorder, The Three Clusters — and What Each One Needs From You, Assessment: Mental Status Exam and Risk Screening
- 11Eating Disorders and Somatic Symptom DisordersSeeing the disorder, not the body, The starving and purging body, Meal support, milieu and what to say
- 12Neurocognitive Disorders: Delirium and DementiaCognition, Ageing and the Three Ds, Delirium — The Emergency That Looks Like Confusion, Major Neurocognitive Disorder — Subtypes, Staging and Assessment
- 13Crisis, Suicide, Aggression and De-escalationCrisis: when the usual coping runs out, Suicide risk: asking the question directly, Safety planning and the safer environment
- 14Across the Lifespan and Into the CommunityChildren and Adolescents, The Perinatal Period and the Adult Years, Older Adults