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Table of Contents
Table of 1
Contents
Chapter 01: Psychiatric-Mental Health Nursing and Evidence-Based Practice
2
Chapter 02: Mental Health and Mental Disorders 6
Chapter 03: Cultural and Spiritual Issues Related to Mental Health Care 10
Chapter 04: Patient Rights and Legal Issues 14
Chapter 05: Mental Health Care in the Community 18
Chapter 06: Ethics, Standards, and Nursing Frameworks 21
Chapter 07: Psychosocial Theoretic Basis of Psychiatric Nursing 25
Chapter 08: Biologic Foundations of Psychiatric Nursing 29
Chapter 09: Communication and the Therapeutic Relationship 33
Chapter 10: The Psychiatric-Mental Health Nursing Process 37
Chapter 11: Psychopharmacology, Dietary Supplements, and Biologic
Interventions 41
Chapter 12: Cognitive Interventions in Psychiatric Nursing 46
Chapter 13: Group Interventions 50
Chapter 14: Family Assessment and Interventions 54
Chapter 15: Mental Health Promotion for Children and Adolescents 58
Chapter 16: Mental Health Promotion for Young and Middle-Aged Adults 61
Chapter 17: Mental Health Promotion for Older Adults 64
Chapter 18: Stress and Mental Health 68
Chapter 19: Management of Anger, Aggression, and Violence 72
Chapter 20: Crisis, Loss, Grief, Response, Bereavement, and Disaster
Management 76
Chapter 21: Suicide Prevention: Screening, Assessment, and Intervention 80
Chapter 22: Schizophrenia and Related Disorders: Nursing Care of Persons
with Thought
Disorders 84
Chapter 23: Depression: Management of Depressive Moods and Suicidal 92
Behavior Chapter 24: Bipolar Disorders: Management of Mood Lability 96
Chapter 25: Anxiety Disorders: Management of Anxiety, Phobia, 99
and Panic Chapter 26: Obsessive Compulsive and Related Disorders 103
Chapter 27: Trauma and Stressor Related Disorders 105
Chapter 28: Personality and Borderline Personality Disorder:
Management of Emotional Dysregulation and Self-Harm 106
Chapter 29: Antisocial Personality and Disruptive, Impulse Control, and
Conduct Disorders
109
Chapter 30: Addiction and Substance-Related Disorders Cha
Chapter 31: Eating Disorders: Management of Eating and pter
Weight Chapter 32: Somatic Symptom and Related 34:
Disorders Sex
Chapter 33: Nursing Care of Persons with Insomnia and Sleep ual
Problems Diso

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rders: Management of Sexual Dysfunction and Paraphilias Chapter 113
35: Mental Health Assessment of Children and Adolescents 117
Chapter 36: Mental Health Disorders of Childhood and 121
Adolescence Chapter 37: Mental Health Assessment of 125
Older Adults 129
Chapter 38: Neurocognitive Disorders 132
Chapter 39: Caring for Persons Who Are Homeless and 135
Mentally Ill Chapter 40: Caring for Persons With Co- 139
occurring Mental Disorders Chapter 41: Caring for 142
Survivors of Violence and Abuse 146
Chapter 42: Caring for Persons With Mental Illness and 150
Criminal Behavior Chapter 43: Caring for Medically 154
Compromised Persons 158
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Chapter 01: Psychiatric-Mental Health Nursing and Evidence-Based
Practice


1. A group of nursing students are reviewing information about the
evolution of mental health care and are discussing the
recommendations of the final report of the Joint Commission on
Mental Illness and Health. The students demonstrate understanding of
this information when they identify that the report recommended an
increase in which of the following?
A) Numbers of mental health hospitals
B) State funding for mental health care
C) Clinics supplemented by general hospital units
D) Use of psychotherapy by psychiatrists

2. A nurse is reviewing the American Nurses Association’s Statement on
Psychiatric Nursing Practice published in 1967, which sanctioned the
involvement of psychiatricmental health nurses in the provision of
holistic nursing care. Integrating knowledge of the various theories
and views of mental health and illness, the nurse identifies which of
the following as most strongly linked to this holistic approach?
A) Sigmund Freud’s psychoanalytic theory
B) Florence Nightingale’s Notes on Nursing
C) Hildegarde
D) Clifford Beers’ A Mind That Found Itself
E) Peplau’s Interpersonal Relations in Nursing

3. A nursing instructor is preparing a presentation about key events and
people that influenced the development of contemporary mental health
and illness care. When describing the effects of World War II, which of
the following would the instructor include?
A) People began to view mental illness as more commonplace and
acceptable.
B) The biologic understanding of mental illness was almost fully
developed.
C) Deinstitutionalization occurred in response to the community health
movement.
D) Mental illnesses became categorized as psychoses or neuroses.

4. A nursing student is presenting a discussion of the history of
psychiatricmental health nursing and its place within nursing history.
Which of the following would be most appropriate to include?
A) Certification for the psychiatricmental health nursing specialty
was first emphasized by Mary Adelaide Nutting.
B) Psychiatric nurses played a part in seeing that all

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