Description
Book SynopsisPresemts an evidence-based, holistic approach to caring for psychiatric and mental health patients in outpatient settings. Using a biopsychosocial model, this text addresses mental health issues through stabilization of brain chemistry, individualized psychotherapy, and re-socialization into the community.
Table of Contents
- Foundational Theories that Support Advanced Practice Psychiatric Nurses' Practice
- Theoretical Framework of Practice
- Understanding the Development of Psychiatric Disorders: The Why of Clinical Presentation and Response to Treatment
- Neurobiological Theory of Psychiatric Disorders: Brain functioning, brain development and prenatal and perinatal factors disrupting brain development
- Postnatal influences on development of psychopathology
- Interventions Used by Advance Practice Psychiatric Nurses: Tools of the Profession
- Communicating, Interviewing and Assessing
- Case Formulation and Diagnosis, Differential Diagnoses and Developing a Biopsychosocial Plan of Care
- Psychopharmacotherapy
- Psychotherapies
- Psychosocial interventions
- Psychiatric Disorders: Anxiety Disorders
- Response to Stressors: Bridging Normal Responses and Psychiatric Disorders
- Phobias, Generalized Anxiety Disorder, Social Anxiety Disorder and Panic Disorder
- Acute Stress Disorder and Posttraumatic Stress Disorder
- Obsessive-compulsive disorder and obsessive-compulsive spectrum disorders
- Psychiatric Disorders: Mood disorders
- Depressive disorders
- Bipolar Disorder
- Psychiatric Disorders: Thought Disorders
- Schizophrenia and Schizoaffective Disorder
- Delirium and Dementia
- Psychiatric Disorders: Substance-related Disorders--Dual Diagnosis
- Dual Diagnosis
- Personality Disorders
- Personality Disorders
- Mental Health Promotion and Prevention of Psychiatric Disorders
- Prevention of Psychiatric Disorders
