Title: Mental health and mental illness
First published: 1985
Description: What are the strengths and weaknesses of today's mental health status exams? How do you gain the trust of a noncompliant client? What behavioral objectives are realistic in the treatment of anxiety disorders? Using the DSM-IV as an organizing framework, this superior text helps you answer questions like these, building the skills you need for effective, compassionate nursing care of clients with mental illness.
Subjects: Classification, Developmental psychology, Mental Disorders, Mental health, Mental illness, Methods, Nurses' instruction, Nursing, Psychiatric nursing, Psychiatry, Psychiatrytic Nursing, Soins infirmiers en psychiatrie de l'enfant, Psychiatrie, Santé mentale