,Table of Contents
Davis Advantage for Townsend’s Essentials of Psychiatric Mental
Health Nursing: Concepts of Care in Evidence-Based Practice, 9th
Edition — Karyn I. Morgan
Unit I: Introduction to Psychiatric/Mental Health Concepts
1. Mental Health and Mental Illness
2. Biological Implications
3. Ethical and Legal Issues
4. Psychopharmacology
Unit II: Psychiatric/Mental Health Nursing Interventions
5. Relationship Development and Therapeutic Communication
6. The Nursing Process in Psychiatric/Mental Health Nursing
7. Psychosocial Interventions and Spiritual Care
8. Intervention in Groups
9. Crisis Intervention
10. The Recovery Model
11. Suicide Prevention
Unit III: Care of Patients With Psychiatric Disorders
12. Caring for Patients With Mental Illness and Substance Use
Disorders in General Practice Settings
13. Neurocognitive Disorders
14. Substance Use and Addiction Disorders
15. Schizophrenia Spectrum and Other Psychotic Disorders
16. Depressive Disorders
17. Bipolar and Related Disorders
18. Anxiety, Obsessive-Compulsive, and Related Disorders
19. Trauma- and Stressor-Related Disorders
20. Somatic Symptom and Dissociative Disorders
21. Eating Disorders
22. Personality Disorders
,Unit IV: Psychiatric/Mental Health Nursing of Special Populations
23. Children and Adolescents
24. The Aging Individual
25. Survivors of Abuse or Neglect
26. Community Mental Health Nursing
27. The Bereaved Individual
28. Military Families
Online Chapters
29. Concepts of Personality Development
30. Complementary and Integrative Therapies
31. Cultural Concepts Relevant to Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing
32. Issues Related to Human Sexuality and Gender Dysphoria
Appendices
• Appendix A: Mental Status Assessment
• Appendix B: Glossary
• Appendix C: Answers to Review Questions
• Appendix D: Examples of Answers to Communication Exercises
, Chapter 1. Mental Health and Mental Illness
Multiple Choice
1. A nurse is assessing a client who is
experiencing occasional feelings of sadness
because of the recent death of a beloved pet.
The clients appetite, sleep patterns, and daily
routine have not changed. How should the
nurse interpret the clients behaviors?
1. The clients behaviors demonstrate mental illness in
the form of depression.
2. The clients behaviors are extensive,
which indicates the presence of
mental illness.
3. The clients behaviors are not congruent with cultural
norms.
4. The
clients behaviors demonstrate no
functional impairment, indicating no
mental illness.
ANSWER: 4
Rationale: The nurse should assess that the
clients daily functioning is not impaired. The
client who experiences feelings of sadness after
the loss of a pet is responding within normal
Davis Advantage for Townsend’s Essentials of Psychiatric Mental
Health Nursing: Concepts of Care in Evidence-Based Practice, 9th
Edition — Karyn I. Morgan
Unit I: Introduction to Psychiatric/Mental Health Concepts
1. Mental Health and Mental Illness
2. Biological Implications
3. Ethical and Legal Issues
4. Psychopharmacology
Unit II: Psychiatric/Mental Health Nursing Interventions
5. Relationship Development and Therapeutic Communication
6. The Nursing Process in Psychiatric/Mental Health Nursing
7. Psychosocial Interventions and Spiritual Care
8. Intervention in Groups
9. Crisis Intervention
10. The Recovery Model
11. Suicide Prevention
Unit III: Care of Patients With Psychiatric Disorders
12. Caring for Patients With Mental Illness and Substance Use
Disorders in General Practice Settings
13. Neurocognitive Disorders
14. Substance Use and Addiction Disorders
15. Schizophrenia Spectrum and Other Psychotic Disorders
16. Depressive Disorders
17. Bipolar and Related Disorders
18. Anxiety, Obsessive-Compulsive, and Related Disorders
19. Trauma- and Stressor-Related Disorders
20. Somatic Symptom and Dissociative Disorders
21. Eating Disorders
22. Personality Disorders
,Unit IV: Psychiatric/Mental Health Nursing of Special Populations
23. Children and Adolescents
24. The Aging Individual
25. Survivors of Abuse or Neglect
26. Community Mental Health Nursing
27. The Bereaved Individual
28. Military Families
Online Chapters
29. Concepts of Personality Development
30. Complementary and Integrative Therapies
31. Cultural Concepts Relevant to Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing
32. Issues Related to Human Sexuality and Gender Dysphoria
Appendices
• Appendix A: Mental Status Assessment
• Appendix B: Glossary
• Appendix C: Answers to Review Questions
• Appendix D: Examples of Answers to Communication Exercises
, Chapter 1. Mental Health and Mental Illness
Multiple Choice
1. A nurse is assessing a client who is
experiencing occasional feelings of sadness
because of the recent death of a beloved pet.
The clients appetite, sleep patterns, and daily
routine have not changed. How should the
nurse interpret the clients behaviors?
1. The clients behaviors demonstrate mental illness in
the form of depression.
2. The clients behaviors are extensive,
which indicates the presence of
mental illness.
3. The clients behaviors are not congruent with cultural
norms.
4. The
clients behaviors demonstrate no
functional impairment, indicating no
mental illness.
ANSWER: 4
Rationale: The nurse should assess that the
clients daily functioning is not impaired. The
client who experiences feelings of sadness after
the loss of a pet is responding within normal
