Psychiatric Advanced Practice Nursing: A Biopsychosocial Foundation for Practice

By Eris Field Perese and Eris F. Perese APRN-PMH

Book Overview

Here's an evidence-based, holistic approach to caring for psychiatric and mental health patients in outpatient settings. Using a biopsychosocial model, this text addresses mental health issues through stabilization of brain chemistry, individualized psychotherapy, and re-socialization into the community.

Inside, you'll find an in-depth focus on specific psychiatric disorders including the epidemiology, etiology, biological basis, clinical presentation of adults, older adults, and children, co-morbidities, differential diagnosis, and treatment. There is also comprehensive coverage of the interventions and "Levers of Change" used to aid patients in their recovery, as well preventative interventions.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0803622473
• ISBN13: 9780803622470
• Release Date: January 2012
• Publisher: F. A. Davis Company
• Length: 752 Pages
• Weight: 4.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.8" x 8.8" x 11.0"