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Here’s the 20th Anniversary Edition of the most complete and easy-to-use resource on how to develop practical, individualized plans of care for psychiatric and mental health patients.

It’s really 2 books in 1! The first half provides the diagnostic information needed to create a care plan; the second half covers the safe administration of psychotropic medications. And, the concepts can be applied to a variety of healthcare settings…from in-patient hospitalization through the outpatient clinic…to home health and private practice.

Completely revised and updated throughout, the 8th Edition reflects all of the new knowledge and new medications in the field, including an expanded section on psychotropic medications that encompasses all of today’s new drugs and the 2009-2011 content in the NANDA Nursing Diagnoses: Taxonomy II.

• List of films in the DSM chapters that portray individuals with specific mental disorders.
• Index of Client Behaviors with page numbers listed on inside covers.
• Concept Mapping and the use of Care Map Plans introduced in Chapter 1.
• Organized by DSM-IV and NANDA diagnoses.
• Nursing diagnoses and interventions include the definition, possible etiologies ("Related to ..."), defining characteristics ("Evidenced by ..."), objectives broken down to show long- and short-term goals, interventions with selected rationales, and desired patient outcomes/discharge criteria.
• Unit on psychotropic drug classifications covers anti-anxiety agents, antidepressants, antimanic agents, antipsychotics, antiparkinsonian drugs, sedative hypnotics, and central nervous system stimulants.
• Each drug classification lists background assessment data, predisposing factors, symptomatology, and nursing diagnoses and nursing interventions.
• Indications, route, and dosage listed for individual drugs as well as for classifications.

How to Use this Book
Index of DSM-IV-TR Psychiatric Diagnoses

1. Nursing Process:  One Step to Professionalism
2. Disorders Usually First Diagnosed in Infancy, Childhood, or Adolescence
3. Delirium, Dementia, and Amnestic Disorders
4. Substance-Related Disorders
5. Schizophrenia and Other Psychotic Disorders
6. Mood Disorders: Depression
7. Mood Disorders: Bipolar Disorder
8. Anxiety Disorders
9. Somatoform Disorders
10. Dissociative Disorders
11. Sexual and Gender Identity Disorders
12. Eating Disorders
13. Adjustment Disorders
14. Impulse Control Disorders
15. Psychological Factors Affecting Medical Condition
16. Personality Disorder
17. Problems Related to Abuse or Neglect
18. Premenstrual Dysphoric Disorder
19. HIV Disease
20. Homelessness
21. Psychiatric Home Nursing Care
22. Forensic Nursing
23. Complementary Therapies
24. Loss and Bereavement

Psychotropic Medications

24. Antianxiety Agents
25. Antidepressants
26. Mood Stabilizing Drugs
27. Antipsychotic Agents
28. Antparkinson Agents
29. Sedative- Hypnotics
30. Agents Used to Treat Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder

Appendices

1. Comparison of Developmental Theories
2. Ego Defense Mechanisms
3.  Levels of Anxiety
4. Stages of Grief
5. Relationship Development and Therapeutic Communication
6. Psychosocial Therapies
7. Electroconvulsive Therapy
8. Medication Assessment Tool
9. Cultural Assessment Tool
10. The DSM-IV-TR Multiaxial Evaluation System
11. Global Assessment of Functioning Scale
12. DSM-IV-TR Classification: Axes I and II Categories and Codes
13. Mental Status Assessment
14. Assigning Nursing Diagnoses to Client Behaviors
15. Brief Mental Status Evaluation
16. FDA Pregnancy Categories
17. DEA Controlled Substances Schedules
18. Abnormal Involuntary Movement Scale (AIMS)

Nursing Diagnoses Index
Subject Index
Drug Index

• UPDATED & REVISED! All content, thoroughly revised and updated, reflects the education and practice of nursing today, including the inclusion of new medications and the deletion of discontinued medications.
• EXPANDED & UPDATED! Section on psychotropic medications includes the addition of medications available since the last edition, and the deletion of those discontinued.
• EXPANDED! Mental Status Assessment now features the assessment questions.
• NEW! Abnormal Involuntary Movement Scale (AIMS,) added to the appendix, measures the severity of dyskinesias in patients taking neuroleptic medications.
• NEW! Clinical Pearl boxes appear in most chapters.
• REVISED! The chapter, Mood Disorders, is divided into two separate chapters, Mood Disorders: Depression and Mood Disorders: Bipolar Disorders.
• UPDATED! New 2009-2011 content appears in the NANDA Nursing Diagnoses: Taxonomy II.
• NEW! The addition of communication interventions in the care plans reflects the new emphasis on therapeutic communication.