Psychiatric and Mental Health Essentials in Primary Care

ISBN-13: 9780415780902 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 304 str.

Lee Ann Hoff;Betty Morgan;¬Abar

Opis

This text addresses key mental health concepts and strategies for time-pressured practitioners in various healthcare settings serving diverse populations. It offers theoretically sound guidelines for compassionate, efficient, and effective service, capturing the essentials of mental health care delivered by primary care providers.

Spis treści

1. Theoretical Overview and Generalist/Specialist Roles  2. Mental Health Assessment and Service Planning  3. Crisis Care Basics in Primary Care  4. Suicidal and Self-Destructive Persons  5. Violence and Sexual Assault  6. The Anxious Patient  7. Problems of Depression and Mood Disorders  8. The Person with Schizophrenia  9. Substance Abuse, Addiction, and Mental Health  10. Chronic Pain in Medical and Psychiatric Illness  11. Children, Adolescents, and Family Issues  12. The Older Person, Preventive Mental Health, Cognitive Impairment, and End-of-Life Issues  13. Complementary and Alternatives Treatments-CAM

O autorze

Lee Ann Hoff is a nurse-anthropologist and mental health professional with extensive clinical, management, teaching, research, and consulting experience in crisis and mental healthcare, women's health, and sociocultural issues affecting health. She is Adjunct Professor in the Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Ottawa, Canada, and Visiting Professor at the Institute for Applied Psychology (ISPA), Lisbon, Portugal.

Betty D. Morgan is Associate Professor at the University of Massachusetts Lowell, USA, where she is the coordinator for the Adult Psychiatric Mental Health nursing graduate program, and the post-Master’s Adult Psychiatric Mental Health nursing certificate program.