- Case Study and Nursing Care Plan boxes
- include real-life vignettes of patients with specific psychiatric disorders.
- Evidence-Based Practice boxes describe recent research studies and how their findings affect nursing practice.
- Six-step nursing process is followed in clinical chapters, providing consistent guidelines for comprehensive assessment and intervention.
- Learning features include key terms and concepts, key points to remember, critical thinking, and chapter reviews.
- Conversational, mentor-like writing style reinforces important information and helps in applying textbook content to the clinical setting.
- Coverage of therapeutic communication techniques and nontherapeutic communication provides tips to help you build patient interaction skills.
- Assessment Guidelines summarize the steps of patient assessment for various disorders.
- Considering Culture boxes discuss the importance of person-centered care in providing competent care to diverse populations in various clinical situations.
- Patient and Family Teaching boxes focus on the nurse’s role in helping patients and families understand psychiatric disorders, treatments, complications, and medication side effects.
- NEW!
Next Generation NCLEX® (NGN) case studies and questions
- are provided at the end of each clinical chapter to support critical thinking and prepare you for your state board examination.
- NEW! Updated screening tools and rating scales make it easier to quantify symptoms and assess the severity of a disorder.
- NEW! Advanced practice treatment modalities are addressed separately from the nursing process in the categories of biological interventions (e.g., pharmacotherapy and brain stimulation therapies) and psychological therapies (e.g., cognitive-behavioral therapy and interpersonal therapy).
- NEW! Emphasis on adverse childhood experiences, trauma, and trauma-informed care addresses the near-universal experience of trauma in individuals with psychiatric disorders and conditions.
- NEW! Order of clinical chapters mirrors that of the DSM-5, and many of the major disorders are accompanied by specific DSM-5 diagnostic criteria.
- NEW! Health Policy boxes are updated to describe current legislation related to mental health.
- NEW! The International Classification for Nursing Practice (ICNP), from the International Council of Nurses (ICN), provides straightforward nursing diagnoses that are easily translatable across settings and disciplines.
