ISBN-13: 9781444121292 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 288 str.
A concise and user-friendly guide, Handbook of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing will help you learn the essential skills required for practice.
Taking a life course approach to mental health care, this practical handbook is informed by an interdisciplinary understanding of mental health problems and the recovery from mental health difficulties.
-Companion handbook to Phil Barker's bestselling Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing: The craft of caring. Written in an accessible way, the books can be used in conjunction or as stand alone texts.
-A practical, hands-on guide with learning outcomes linked to the competencies required for practice.
-Highlights case studies and draws on narratives of patient experience to help you make informed, value-based decisions in partnership with service users.
-Includes practical exercises designed to develop skills in person centered care, assessment, classification, models of therapeutic practice, specific mental health problems and needs and understanding the organisation of care.