The 6th edition of this market-leading textbook offers a clear, straightforward way to understand the often intimidating subject of psychiatric mental health nursing. Its practical, clinical perspective and user-friendly writing style help you quickly master key concepts. Clinical chapters follow the nursing process framework and progress from theory to application with a wealth of real-world examples to prepare you for practice.

• UNIQUE! A conversational, user-friendly writing style helps you quickly grasp complex psychiatric mental health nursing concepts.






• Clinical chapters are logically and consistently organized with sections on the clinical picture, epidemiology, comorbidity, etiology, and application of the nursing process.








• Clinical chapters follow the nursing process, providing you with consistent guidelines for comprehensive assessment and intervention.








• Vignettes prepare you for real-world practice with personal, descriptive characterizations of patients with specific psychiatric disorders.








• Coverage of psychopharmacology in clinical chapters familiarizes you with specific drug treatment options, including the most commonly used drugs and important nursing considerations for their use.








• Assessment Guidelines boxes list essential guidelines for comprehensive patient assessment.








• Case Studies with Nursing Care Plans present individualized histories of patients with specific psychiatric disorders and include interventions with rationales and evaluation statements for each patient goal.








• A separate chapter on cultural implications, as well as Considering Culture boxes throughout the text, provides essential information on culture, worldviews, and techniques for providing culturally competent care.








• Coverage of treatment and recovery in the community addresses the need for successful ongoing psychiatric mental health nursing care in the community setting.




• A chapter on end-of-life care examines the psychological impact of terminal illness and death on patients, families, and nurses.

• Updated nursing process and clinical chapters keep you current with the latest ANA Psychiatric-Mental Health Nursing: Scope and Standards of Practice.






• An increased focus on health promotion and recovery reflects federal, state, and local initiatives to improve screening methods, patient and family teaching, rehabilitation, and community treatment options for people who have mental illnesses.








• Enhanced Evidence-Based Practice boxes emphasize the profound impact of research-and your potential role in that process-on the advancement of psychiatric treatment options.








• A new chapter on sleep disorders covers the most common sleep disturbances and their relationships to psychiatric illness, as well as the nurse's role in their assessment and management.








• A new chapter on sexual dysfunction and sexual disorders examines the complex issue of sexual behavior and provides the information you need to conduct a sexual assessment, identify sexual dysfunctions and disorders, recognize nursing implications, and formulate interventions.

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• Clinical Alert boxes address issues critical to the safety or well-being of the client.
• Client and Family Teaching Guidelines boxes discuss the issues confronting families when a member suffers from mental illness.
• Nursing Assessment Questions boxes include questions that should be asked in the assessment of a particular disorder.
• Case studies depict effective nursing care strategies and encourage critical thinking.
• Nursing Care Plans provide guidelines for care, with each plan including a brief case study, followed by assessment, diagnosis, goal setting, interventions with rationales, and evaluation.
• Clinical Symptoms boxes make it easy for students to apply content to the real world.
• DSM-IV-TR Criteria boxes list categories of mental disorders and the criteria for diagnosing them.
• Additional Treatment Modalities boxes summarize other modalities and interventions used in conjunction with nursing interventions in the treatment of a particular disorder.
• Objectives and key terms open each chapter, emphasizing the most important concepts.
• Chapter summaries conclude each chapter with the most significant ideas to remember.
• A glossary provides concise definitions of key terms.
• A Neurobiology in Mental Health and Disorder chapter covers basic neuroanatomy as well as the psychobiological aspects of psychiatric disorders.
• A Complementary and Alternative Therapies chapter introduces current therapies used in the treatment of physiological and psychological health problems and demonstrates the nurse's role in providing holistic nursing care.

• New Somatoform, Factitious, and Dissociative Disorders and Sleep Disorders chapters cover these increasingly diagnosed disorders and describe the nurse's role in treatment.
• Medication Key Facts boxes summarize the most common psychopharmacologic interventions and discuss safe and effective use.
• Research for Evidence-Based Practice boxes discuss implications of current research studies.
• Nursing Outcomes Classification (NOC) and Nursing Interventions Classification (NIC) labels are identified for each nursing diagnosis in all nursing care plans.
• Review questions for the NCLEX examination reinforce the content in each chapter.
• A NEW companion CD includes:
• Interactive Exercises with memory match, quiz show, and hangman activities to ensure comprehension.
• Neurology Review with state-of-the-art, narrated animations.
• 150 review questions to prepare students for the NCLEX examination.
• Audio Glossary of 150 terms with definitions and pronunciations.