Peate / Chelvanayagam Caring for Adults with Mental Health Problems

Erscheinungsjahr 2007
ISBN: 978-0-470-05780-3
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 238 Seiten, E-Book

Reihe: Wiley Series in Nursing

Mental health care provision can be complex and the approach thecarer uses can have a detrimental effect on the health of theperson being cared for. Caring for Adults with MentalHealth Problems provides the reader with many examples ofthoughts, ideas and perspectives in a user-friendly, easilyaccessible format. The chapters are divided into discrete sectionsreflecting contemporary care approaches.
Reference to care in a range of primary and secondary caresettings is made throughout the book. Each chapter provides thereader with a clear and concise approach to health care,encouraging the reader to understand and delve deeper. Written bycontributors who are experienced clinicians and academics with manyyears of clinical and academic experience in various health caresettings, this text is based upon the principles of care, afoundation text that encourages the student to grow anddevelop.
Caring for Adults with Mental Health Problems is apractice-based handbook or manual that has a sound evidence basis,and one that will challenge and encourage the student to develop aquestioning approach to care. The text is designed to be used as areference book by a variety of readers in either the clinicalsetting, classroom or at home, in statutory or non-statutorysurroundings.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Peate, Ian

Chelvanayagam, Sonya

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contributors vii
Acknowledgements xi
1 Introduction 1
Ian Peate and Sonya Chelvanayagam
2 History of Mental Health Care 7
Stephen Cloudsdale
3 Mad, Bad or Just Different 15
Alan Brownbill
4 Partnership Working in Mental Health Care 31
Paul Illingworth
5 Promoting Mental Health 53
Alan Brownbill and Sonya Chelvanayagam
6 Legal Matters 69
Soo Lee
7 Anxiety Disorders 87
Thomas Beary
8 Mood Disorders Including Self-harm and Suicide 103
Stephen Cloudsdale
9 Eating Disorders 117
Sonya Chelvanayagam
10 Dual Diagnosis: Substance Misuse and Mental Health Problems 131
Sue Hahn
11 Schizophrenia and Schizophrenia-type Disorders 145
Yvonne Mitchell
12 Personality Disorder 161
Brian Thomson
13 Dementias 177
Sue Hahn
14 Therapeutic Interventions 195
Soo Lee, Angela Edmonds and Clare Hubbard
Index 217

Über Autor(innen)

Ian Peate, Associate Head of School
EN (G) RGN DipN (Lond) RNT BEd (Hons) MA (Lond) LLM
Ian began his nursing career in 1981 at Central MiddlesexHospital, becoming an Enrolled Nurse working in an intensive careunit. He later undertook three years' student nurse trainingat Central Middlesex and Northwick Park Hospitals, becoming a StaffNurse then a Charge Nurse. He has worked in nurse education since1989. His key areas of interest are nursing practice and theory,sexual health and HIV/AIDS. He is currently Associate Head ofSchool. His portfolio centres on recruitment and marketing andprofessional academic development within the School of Nursing andMidwifery.
Sonya Chelvanayagam, Senior Lecturer in Mental Health
MSc PgDip (Learning and Teaching) RN
Sonya qualified as a Mental Health Nurse in 1985. She thentrained as a Registered General Nurse. Sonya has worked in a rangeof different settings caring for individuals with a combination ofphysical symptoms and mental health problems. Most notably, shedeveloped a mental health nurse service within a specialist mentalhealth team for people attending HIV/GUM services. Sonya works as aSenior Lecturer in mental health at the University of Hertfordshireand as a Lecturer in the Burdett Institute of GastrointestinalNursing, King's College London.