Psychiatric Nursing: Promoting Mental Health

by Ann Wolbert Burgess

Addressing contemporary mental health issues facing psychiatric nursing today, as well as traditional clinical skills, this reference work links stress, trauma, and behavioural health problems to neurobiological function and immune system depletion. This framework pinpoints assessment and selection of intervention strategies especially useful in this era of managed care, focused care, and time-limited treatment. The book describes the biology of mental...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0838580874
• ISBN13: 9780838580875
• Release Date: January 1997
• Publisher: Prentice Hall
• Length: 856 Pages
• Weight: 4.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 8.5" x 11.2"