Del 6 - Wiley Series in Nursing

Caring for Adults with Mental Health Problems

Häftad, Engelska, 2006

AvPeate,Chelvanayagam,Ian Peate,Sonya Chelvanayagam

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Mental health care provision can be complex and the approach the carer uses can have a detrimental effect on the health of the person being cared for. Caring for Adults with Mental Health Problems provides the reader with many examples of thoughts, ideas and perspectives in a user-friendly, easily accessible format. The chapters are divided into discrete sections reflecting contemporary care approaches. Reference to care in a range of primary and secondary care settings is made throughout the book. Each chapter provides the reader with a clear and concise approach to health care, encouraging the reader to understand and delve deeper. Written by contributors who are experienced clinicians and academics with many years of clinical and academic experience in various health care settings, this text is based upon the principles of care, a foundation text that encourages the student to grow and develop.Caring for Adults with Mental Health Problems is a practice-based handbook or manual that has a sound evidence basis, and one that will challenge and encourage the student to develop a questioning approach to care. The text is designed to be used as a reference book by a variety of readers in either the clinical setting, classroom or at home, in statutory or non-statutory surroundings.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2006-12-01
Mått152 x 229 x 15 mm
Vikt336 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieWiley Series in Nursing
Antal sidor240
FörlagJohn Wiley & Sons Inc
ISBN9780470026298

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Ian Peate, Associate Head of SchoolEN (G) RGN DipN (Lond) RNT BEd (Hons) MA (Lond) LLMIan began his nursing career in 1981 at Central Middlesex Hospital, becoming an Enrolled Nurse working in an intensive care unit. He later undertook three years’ student nurse training at Central Middlesex and Northwick Park Hospitals, becoming a Staff Nurse then a Charge Nurse. He has worked in nurse education since 1989. His key areas of interest are nursing practice and theory, sexual health and HIV/AIDS. He is currently Associate Head of School. His portfolio centres on recruitment and marketing and professional academic development within the School of Nursing and Midwifery. Sonya Chelvanayagam, Senior Lecturer in Mental HealthMSc PgDip (Learning and Teaching) RNSonya qualified as a Mental Health Nurse in 1985. She then trained as a Registered General Nurse. Sonya has worked in a range of different settings caring for individuals with a combination of physical symptoms and mental health problems. Most notably, she developed a mental health nurse service within a specialist mental health team for people attending HIV/GUM services. Sonya works as a Senior Lecturer in mental health at the University of Hertfordshire and as a Lecturer in the Burdett Institute of Gastrointestinal Nursing, King’s College London.

Contributors viiAcknowledgements xi1 Introduction 1Ian Peate and Sonya Chelvanayagam2 History of Mental Health Care 7Stephen Cloudsdale3 Mad, Bad or Just Different 15Alan Brownbill4 Partnership Working in Mental Health Care 31Paul Illingworth5 Promoting Mental Health 53Alan Brownbill and Sonya Chelvanayagam6 Legal Matters 69Soo Lee7 Anxiety Disorders 87Thomas Beary8 Mood Disorders Including Self-harm and Suicide 103Stephen Cloudsdale9 Eating Disorders 117Sonya Chelvanayagam10 Dual Diagnosis: Substance Misuse and Mental Health Problems 131Sue Hahn11 Schizophrenia and Schizophrenia-type Disorders 145Yvonne Mitchell12 Personality Disorder 161Brian Thomson13 Dementias 177Sue Hahn14 Therapeutic Interventions 195Soo Lee, Angela Edmonds and Clare HubbardIndex 217