Heres 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. Inside, youll find an in-depth focus on specific psychiatric disorders including the epidemiology, etiology, biological basis, clinical presentation of adults, older adults, and children, co-morbidities, differential diagnosis, and treatment. There is also comprehensive coverage of the interventions and Levers of Change used to aid patients in their recovery, as well preventative interventions.
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
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