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Master your psychiatric-mental health nursing concepts and ace your exams with this comprehensive, high-yield study resource! This guide is explicitly designed to help nursing students navigate mental health care practices, aligned directly with Varcarolis's Canadian Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing: A Clinical Approach (First Canadian Edition) by Margaret Jordan Halter, Cheryl L. Pollard, Susan L. Ray, and Mary Haase.

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UNIT 1 FOUNDATIONS IN THEORY 20 Personality Disorders, 402
21 Sleep–Wake Disorders, 423
1 Mental Health and Mental Illness, 2 22 Sexual Dysfunction, Gender Dysphoria, and
2 Historical Overview of Psychiatric Mental Health Paraphilias, 442
Nursing, 17 23 Somatic Symptom Disorders and Dissociative
3 Relevant Theories and Therapies for Nursing Disorders, 462
Practice, 26
4 Psychotropic Drugs, 45
UNIT 5 TRAUMA INTERVENTIONS

UNIT 2 FOUNDATIONS FOR 24 Crisis and Disaster, 491
25 Suicide, 509
PRACTICE
26 Anger, Aggression, and Violence, 526
5 Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing in Acute Care 27 Interpersonal Violence: Child, Older Adult, and
Settings, 74 Intimate Partner Abuse, 543
6 Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing in Community 28 Sexual Assault, 570
Settings, 85
7 Cultural Implications for Psychiatric Mental UNIT 6 INTERVENTIONS FOR
Health Nursing, 99
8 Ethical Responsibilities and Legal Obligations for
DISTINCT POPULATIONS
Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing Practice, 114
29 Disorders of Children and Adolescents, 586
30 Psychosocial Needs of the Older Adult, 613
UNIT 3 PSYCHOSOCIAL NURSING 31 Living With Recurrent and Persistent Mental
Illness, 632
TECHNIQUES
32 Psychological Needs of Patients With Medical
9 The Nursing Process and Standards of Care for Conditions, 647
Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing, 132 33 Care for the Dying and for Those Who Grieve, 659
10 Therapeutic Relationships, 147 34 Forensic Psychiatric Nursing, 676
11 Communication and the Clinical Interview, 165
12 Understanding Responses to Stress, 184 UNIT 7 ADVANCED INTERVENTION
MODALITIES
UNIT 4 PSYCHOBIOLOGICAL
35 Therapeutic Groups, 687
DISORDERS
36 Family Interventions, 699
13 Anxiety, Obsessive-Compulsive, and Related 37 Integrative Care, 717
Disorders, 199
14 Depressive Disorders, 231 APPENDIXES
15 Bipolar Disorders, 260 A Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing Standards of
16 Schizophrenia Spectrum and Other Psychotic Practice, Code of Ethics, Beliefs, and Values, 735
Disorders, 284 B NANDA-I Nursing Diagnoses 2012–2014, 737
17 Eating Disorders, 320
18 Cognitive Disorders, 342 Glossary, 740
19 Substance Use and Addictive Disorders, 372 Index, 751

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