Stuart & Sundeen's mental health nursing : principles and practice / edited by Ben Thomas, Sally Hardy, Penny Cutting ; foreword by Fiona Caldicott.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

PRINCIPLES OF MENTAL HEALTH NURSING CARE * Competent Caring: Influences on the Role of the Mental Health Nurse * Models and Theories * The Nurse-Patient Relationship * User Issues and Critical Theories * Psychological Assessment and Measurement for Nurses * Sociocultural Context of Mental Health Nursing Care * The Biological Context of Mental Health Nursing * The Legal and Ethical Context of Mental Health Nursing * Quality and Standards of Nursing Practice * Supervision of Practice* PRINCIPLES OF ORGANISING PATIENT CARE * Community Care * Health Promotion: Its Application to Mental Health * Crisis Theory and Intervention * In-Patient Nursing Care * Liaison Mental Health Nursing * Nursing Interventions with Long-term Clients * APPLYING PRINCIPLES IN NURSING PRACTICE * Understanding Suicidal Behaviour * Nursing Interventions with Acutely Ill Clients * The Management of Violence * Drug and Alcohol Nursing * Concepts and Treatment of Eating Disorders * Key Issues in Sexual Health * Child, Adolescent and Family Mental Health Nursing * Elderly Care * Care of the Survivor * Forensic Psychiatric Nursing * Psychopharmacology * Complementary Therapies and Mental Health Nursing * Behavioural Psychotherapy * Approaches to Therapeutic Groups * A Family Approach to Nursing Care of Schizophrenia * Looking Forward

Based on Stuart & Sundeen's Principles and Practice of Psychiatric Nursing, this UK edition is geared toward practice for nurses in the UK. The first unit covers the principles of mental health nursing care including roles and functions, models of care, the therapeutic relationship, and the context in which mental health nursing care is practiced in the UK. Unit Two looks at where mental health nursing care is provided: at home, in day centers, in hospital settings. With the move toward care in the community emphasis is given to the continuity of care and this unit will reflect the needs of UK practitioners. Unit Three then applies these principles to practice and considers the nursing interventions for a range of mental health care needs of individuals due to a wide range of conditions. This unit also considers the main treatment interventions offered in the UK.