Kategoria BISAC: Medical >> Nursing - Psychiatric & Mental Health

This text examines the concepts which are fundamental to everyday nursing practice. Understanding how individuals function psychologically in health and illness is vital to providing appropriate care for all patients and clients.

Assuming no previous knowledge of the subject, the author explores the basis of individual psychology focusing on personality traits, beliefs systems, body-image and self-esteem. Periods of illness are seen as psychologically demanding events which individuals cope with in different ways. The book considers how we recognize and interpret the signs...

Against this backdrop, Psychiatry in Long-Term Care, Second Edition (first published under the title Psychiatric Care in the Nursing Home) comprehensively reviews the present state of knowledge on how to identify the major psychiatric disorders affecting residents of long-term care facilities and how to intervene. Edited and...

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Don t Mind Me is Judith Haire s vivid account of the terrors she experienced while in the throes of psychosis. She describes how her dysfunctional family background and her abusive first marriage combined to bring her to the brink of insanity. Her remarkable and sustained recovery is told in great detail. Don t Mind Me is an extraordinary story and shows how Judith battled through her devastating illness and emerged a stronger and more resilient woman.

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Judith Haire was born in 1955 and worked for several years before graduating in Politics from...

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This book tells the story of my battles within the mental health system over the last fourteen years. I have, from a psychiatrist's perspective, variously been diagnosed as hypomanic, schizophrenic, manic depressive and as having schizoaffective disorder - and in that order

But from my point of view (and as an ex-journalist I decided to investigate the mental health system from the inside out ), I have simply been on an extraordinary spiritual journey, meeting the spirits of Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci, meeting a spiritually persecuting Cardinal of the Roman...

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For twenty-eight years, I have been experiencing inner voices and physical presences in ways that would normally induce the label 'schizophrenic' - except that I have never been ill from this cause.

This is how it all began:

A 'presence' that I could not see, moved from the space in front of me, into me, and immediately my mind was charged with another 'voice' or provoker of thoughts, thoughts over which, then, I had no control, and which were not initiated by me. In my head began conversation as between two separate people, one of whom was me.
I began to hear...

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Rebecca describes her struggle with the depths of depression and the confusion of psychotic episodes vividly and honestly. This story has been written using diaries, which Rebecca has written every day since she was thirteen. This account is accompanied by evocative poetry, including poems written while she was experiencing psychotic illness.

She emerges at the end of the book with renewed confidence and clarity about her periods of illness. This book aims to show what it is like in the sufferer's mind and to give real hope to fellow sufferers that recovery is possible...

Dealing with the social experience of grief, loss and bereavement are challenging areas for everyone, including health and social care practitioners who are often well placed to offer help and support to the bereaved. This book draws together a comprehensive range of worldwide evidence for understanding and supporting the bereaved in a variety of health and social care contexts. It can be used by practitioners from a wide range of backgrounds in both health and social care to gain an appreciation of bereavement and its associated support and care. Additionally, it can be used for personal...

If you're looking for a fun, fast review that boils psychiatric and mental health nursing down to its most essential, must-know points your search ends here Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing Demystified is a complete yet concise overview of this field, including neurobiology, pharmacology, therapeutic communication, psychiatric assessment, theoretical models of care, and more. You will learn about hallmark signs and symptoms, treatment, and nursing intervention...

Hone your interpersonal communication skills with the five, easy-to-navigate scenarios on this CD. Working through each scenario several times will give you the knowledge and confidence to respond appropriately to difficult interpersonal situations you will encounter in your healthcare career.

Each scenario presents a series of video interactions between a healthcare professional and a patient. At each decision point, you decide how to react by selecting from a menu that offers three possible responses.

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