Includes index.

PART 1 : Positioning Practice
1. Why Mental Health Matters
2. Nursing and Mental Health in Context
3. The Mental Health and Illness Continuum
4. Safety in Care, Safety at Work
5. Working with Families in Mental Health
6. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Mental Health
7. Kua Takoto Te Manuka
8. Professional Self-Care
PART 2 : Knowledge for Practice
9 Mental Health Assessment
10. Legal and Ethical Issues
11. Anxiety
12. Mood Disorders
13. Substance Use and Co-Occurring Mental Health Disorders
14. Psychosis and Schizophrenia
15. Eating Disorders
16. Personality Disorders
17. Mental Health in Childhood and Adolescence
18. Mental Health in Older Age
19. Autism Spectrum Disorder and Intellectual Disability
20. Physical Health in the Context of Mental Health
21. Psychopharmacology
PART 3 : Contexts of Practice
22. Mental Health in Every Setting
23. Preparing for Mental Health Clinical Placement
24. Primary Care and Community
25. Emergency Care
26. Generalist In-Patient Settings
27. Care of Older Adults
28. Perinatal and Infant Mental Health
29. Forensic Mental Health Nursing
Index

Holistic overview of mental health for nurses in a practice setting. All nurses play an important role in supporting mental health as part of holistic care provision. This book is designed to help students and novice clinicians to develop the knowledge, skills and attitudes they need to care for people across a wide range of specialist and non-specialist practice settings. Written by a highly experienced team of mental health nursing experts, the book covers all the common mental health conditions nurses are likely to encounter in practice. It provides essential information on assessing for and identifying people experiencing mental illness as well as how to provide appropriate responses, support and referral, across the numerous contexts in which nurses work. Fully updated and expanded, the sixth edition includes a wealth of lived experience perspectives designed to provide a critical perspective and a way of thinking about the issues more deeply, building empathy and understanding.

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